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Landing lights
A house update is long overdue, so I thought I’d show you how the landing has progressed. Over the summer the ceiling and walls have been painted, along with the railing along the edge of the landing (and boy did that take a long time!). The walls are painted in Farrow and Ball’s ‘Pointing’ and the railing in ‘Borrowed Light’.…
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Open Day – Sunday 8th September
This Sunday 8th September, we will be open from 10am – 5pm as we are taking part in ‘Open Doors’. Organised by The Civic Trust for Wales, Open Doors gives everyone the opportunity to visit heritage buildings and sites not normally open to the public. Over 300 places are taking part throughout Wales, during September and you can view the…
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Afternoon light
The sunlight streaming through what will become our living room window one day… Image of the Week #50
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TEN years of Christ Church life!
Today marks TEN years of being the proud, crazy, petrified, brave, naive, determined, eccentric and at times overwhelmed owners of Christ Church. And what an amazing decade it’s been… 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013… There have been TEN years of hard graft, laughter, researching, carrying, planning, sweeping, hammering, rearranging, sawing, digging, wheelbarrowing, scaffolding, scraping,…
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A very big ‘thank you!’
We had a fantastic response to our Open Day yesterday. A huge thank you to all 85 of you that came! Some traveling quite a distance to come to Welshpool to view Christ Church. The joy of having an Open Day is that you never know who is going to walk in! It’s wonderful to meet such a range of…
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Lots and lots of plastering
Last week the House build took a big leap forward as a huge amount of plastering was undertaken by local plasterers, Paul Nicoll and Chad Davies. They have done a fantastic job plastering the partition wall and ceiling, which will be part of our living room and the block wall between the two pillars, as well as the…
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Furniture shopping
A recent visit to our local antique store proved very fruitful. I was looking for some small shelves for Owen’s room, which I happily found and snapped up just in time as a lady came in just after me and wanted them! While I was chatting to Melvyn, the owner of Lamplite Antiques, I spotted the most beautiful Victorian table.…
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An unsusal door
This week, Karl has been installing the door which will lead from the main ground floor area of the ‘house’ into his workshop, which is in the north west corner (the darkest, dankest part of the building!). The door itself has had a rather unusual history as it’s an old Victorian prison cell door from Dartmoor Prison! The viewing hole…
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‘Restoration couple sing from the same hymn sheet’
‘…a family who are doing a conversion of Biblical proportions’ The headlines of a feature about our efforts here at Christ Church in this week’s County Times, our local paper. We’re really pleased that Bronwen Jones, the County Times features reporter, happened to walk past recently and wondered what was going on here! I was quite nervous about having all…
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Showing it as it is!
To mark the beginning of a New Year, I have taken two pictures, looking at either end of the church, and showing how we live now. I’m really hoping that these views will change dramatically over the next 12 months. I will take two more pictures in Jan 2014 and we can play ‘spot the difference’! Before we get to…
