Tag: rustic farmhouse

  • How To Give Your Walls An Aged Plaster Effect

    How To Give Your Walls An Aged Plaster Effect

    Smooth, untextured walls be gone! Old houses call for traditional building methods, one of which is lime plastered walls. That bumpy, crumbly effect instantly offsets texture and very little more is needed to make the wall stand out with va va voom. There were a few walls in the house, however, where we either could…

  • How To Make A New Floor Look Old

    How To Make A New Floor Look Old

    Renovating an old house is almost certainly going to raise some issues. One of the biggest ones we discovered in our house was rotten floorboards. Glorious, rustic, textured wood boards, rotten to the core. I could have cried. In fact, I think I did cry. Some could be salvaged and reclaimed, but a lot had…

  • How To: DIY Repointing a Stone Wall

    How To: DIY Repointing a Stone Wall

    Full disclaimer: No-one that worked on this wall is a qualified stonemason, and I would strongly suggest liaising with a professional if you are in any way unsure of what steps to take with your home. That being said, like many of us are at the moment, we are renovating on a budget and determined…