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Finnish rug washing in Tervo and mangling in Pirkkala – images borrowed from their sites respectfully |
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Fresh from the garden… |
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Finnish rug washing in Tervo and mangling in Pirkkala – images borrowed from their sites respectfully |
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Fresh from the garden… |
Wonderwall (Noun)
“A barrier which separates the mundane from the Transcendent Reality. A true Wonderwall will always have a crack, or a slit or an opening which allows anyone a glimpse of what lies beyond the Wonderwall.”
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Our new wallpaper kettle and my mum in action… |
Conveniently, the purchase of our latest toy coincided with the visit of my mother, who, when faced with a choice between a relaxing trip to Benidorm or being sent to a Gulag, would choose the Gulag every time. Like a good daughter, I thought, if working like a beast is how she likes to spend her vacation, who am I to stop her.
Despite of my personal feelings of inadequacy, the results are superb: plaster that was hiding under the stained 90’s wallpaper turned out to be painted light green and in surprisingly good condition. It was always evident that whole sections will need to be replaced, especially from around the front door and in the back where previous occupants had tried to half-arsedly cover up old damages with floppy sheets particleboard, but the rest is pretty solid. To see these walls for the first time without scraps of paper was both weird and wonderful. Although the old paint job is in a dire nick, you get a good feel how the space could look like once fully restored.
We came to view this house on a warm autumn day and the light filtering though the frosted glass was just amazing. Even under a layer of dirt and grime, these century old encaustic tiles steal the show.
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The tiles after a somewhat unsuccessful attempt in de-greasing them: the border tiles on the left cleaned out a bit whereas the tiles on the right did not react much at all to the scrubbing nor the de-greasing cleaner.
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These tiles are not new but they got a century’s worth of character to compensate. |