Out with the old, in with the new

I've had a busy few weeks but I finally feel like I'm making some headway. The old floors which were pretty dreadful have now all gone and replaced with lovely gloss walnut - which I'm obsessed with and constantly looking at to make sure they're not scratched!

It'll be shoes off at the door from now on! To make that slightly a more pleasant task I have a collection of fluffy slippers for people to choose from and even a Jimmy Choo shoe horn to assist.

The old door brass handles (with mismatched screws - a lot of which were hanging out) and matches holding them in, discovered when I removed them, have been replaced with modern chrome.

Old:

New: 

The light fitting have also been changed throughout and updated to match everything that is no longer brass but is now chrome.

Hall before:

Hall after:

I decided to keep the fireplace as apart from the awful swags across the top it was fine. A screwdriver, a hammer and some determination and the swags were gone! A quite bit of filler and paint and job done! 

I wasn't very keen on the marble inlay either and found a fantastic product to change it to stone effect. All you had to do was sand down the marble, put on a base coat and then apply 3 thin coats of the paint. As long as you are patient and don't try to put the paint on too thickly it works a treat and saves a fortune by not buying a new fireplace. The fire itself has been replaced by an electric one all I need to do now is get someone to fix it in place........