White Floors

Monday, May 25, 2009

white timber ceiling

Image from Shootfactory.co.uk

The ceilings are white, so i think it qualifies to be here! If only Brisbane had a cafe like this. The closest i have seen to this is perhaps Vanilla Pod on Lancaster Rd, Ascot.

all images from inspace locations.com

above images from beachstudios.co.uk

image from www.qualitepeinture.com

I found this great website called The Beach, which is a website dedicated to photoshoot locations in the UK. The houses are to die for. My timber floors have some big gaps, not as bad as my mum's house as it was built in the early 1900s, yet the quality of materials wasn't great, as the house is at Kowguran, which is west of Brisbane on the way to Wandoan.

A girlfriend got me onto searching blogs for inspirational pictures. Her favourite is lily-g by Judy Bandiera.

I'm considering painting my floors white, and need some inspiration/guidance. They are currently a yellow toned pine board. The house was built around 1914, and i would expect the floors have been sanded and varnished within the past 10 years.

Above is the pictures which were used when the house was for sale. I skipped past it about 5 times on realestate.com.au before i rang the agent who had it for sale and decided to have a look. The house certainly didn't look impressive, or even nice, but the location was brilliant. That afternoon, i bought it by making an unconditional offer (no finance, no building and pest, no cooling-off period) and handed over a deposit cheque. I could tell that at least 12 stumps needed replacing. I didn't need to pay someone $500 to tell me that! Seen one building inspection, seen them all!

So in short, i want to redo the floors (i have already started painting walls inside, Antique White USA by Dulux).