Original 1930s hallway

I know, I am on a original 1930s hallway right? I shared our s living room renovation last week, and so this week I am going to focus on our hallway renovation. I have some styling, original 1930s hallway, cleaning, tidying and odd jobs left to sort before sharing some of our other interior spaces. However as this leads to our living room and of course is the entrance to our art deco houseit feels like a good place to focus on next.

Our hallway was never finished after our initial renovation three years ago as we ran out of funds. We can now finally warmly literally! Let me chat you through what changes we have made. First and foremost on the priority list was to install underfloor heating. This meant we would have to cover up the original boards, which was just something I had to accept as I would have loved to keep the boards and have a lovely kilim rug BUT practically speaking this was just not an option. Underfloor heating and tiles were the answer to make the hallway significantly warmer and easily cleanable having Otto in mind, as ever.

Original 1930s hallway

Part of the joy for me in owning a period home is the possibility you have to try and enhance some period features or recreate an older more original style. Image courtesy of House to Home. This is something I hope to achieve with our hallway which is light and airy but suffering a bit with neglect. The hallway is quite typical of a s house, spacious at the front with the stairs leading off it, and then narrowing as you walk down with doors to the living room, dining room and kitchen at the end. There was a bit of repairing done when we moved in and had damp proofing. Since then I finally repainted all the bare plaster over Christmas so it stopped looking quite so much like a building site. I still have absolutely no idea what colour to eventually paint the walls but we have some thoughts on flooring and carpets. This would then flow through into the living room giving a better sense of space. Image courtesy of Pinterest. For the stairs, a runner opening up into a carpet on the landing and then continuing up the second flight of stairs to the top floor. How cute are these sheep that provide wool for AJ Rogers carpets?! The spindles were all chipped and covered in a thick, gloopy gloss paint.

We found original quarry tiles under lino, after hours of trying to remove the lino we discovered that they only went part was across the kitchen. More mirrors and artwork I think. How lovely to have original 1930s hallway nice airy entrance.

We moved into our house last year , it's a 's house and is carpeted throughout, very modern. After visiting a few neighbours I noticed they all had beautiful, original tiled halls I decided to have a look tonight and with the help of my trusty screwdriver I can see beautiful red tiles underneath the carpet! What do I do now? I want to show the tiles but I have barely any disposable income and don't know if i could take up the carpet and get the tiles cleaned myself, any advice? Agree post a pic. A friend had beautiful Victorian tiles under layers of of glue and all sorts of rubbish.

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Original 1930s hallway

I know, I am on a roll right? I shared our s living room renovation last week, and so this week I am going to focus on our hallway renovation. I have some styling, cleaning, tidying and odd jobs left to sort before sharing some of our other interior spaces. However as this leads to our living room and of course is the entrance to our art deco house , it feels like a good place to focus on next. We had a lot of wallpaper to remove in the hallway, including on the ceiling!

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Customise Getting started FAQ's. Neither of these added to the s house style, so it was something we wanted to change pretty swiftly. Firstly we sanded and painted the stairs in a different paint, a diamond tough paint as our old stairs chipped quite a bit. Hi Rich, We got the stair runner from a local carpet fitter. Sharing posts outside of Mumsnet does not disclose your username. Absolutely stunning, lucky you! The lamp I went on a hunt for and came up trumps in Matalan, which I think really adds to the art deco vibes. Sabrina The Mummy Stylist. I like the look you are going for. I don't think I can resist now.

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Knittedfairies I found quarry tiles under the carpet in the hall of our Victorian semi; not quite as fancy as those upthread, but similar. We have similar, currently hidden under hideous filthy carpet that I desperately want to replace. OP posts: See next See all. Our staircase is almost identical to yours in size and layout however we have no bannister and are hoping to put one in. It is my dream to one day own a home too. OP posts: See next See all. Since then I finally repainted all the bare plaster over Christmas so it stopped looking quite so much like a building site. Wall colour The woodwork has stayed exactly the same and was painted Inchyra Blue three years ago. After visiting a few neighbours I noticed they all had beautiful, original tiled halls I decided to have a look tonight and with the help of my trusty screwdriver I can see beautiful red tiles underneath the carpet! OP posts: See all. I have the same shade of grey carpet on my stairs with a white staircase and wooden banister — it needs a bit of TLC now though! Many of ours are cracked and broken though.