Just a really quick post today to show you what we did with our really plain Archway in the Entrance Hall. As you can see it really doesn't get any plainer than this but that's no reason to ignore it.

While surfing the web for inspiration around the house I came across the picture at the top of this post, I love the clean line and how elegant it looks I showed my other half and he liked it too so it was set this was what was happening on the Archway.

Again with the help of the web we located a company nearby that makes plaster mouldings and were able to custom make and build the design on site it did take a little bit of time (3 days in all) but I love the final result and think just that little bit of detail really lifts the whole hallway.
The final image is almost after because the keystone hadn't been placed there I'll take another completely finished picture to show you how it looks now.

On our first viewing I think the Living Room was the room that really sold the house, it has this big bay window that just floods the room with light and gorgeous views all year around (although the garden is a little overgrown right now).

This is the Living Room before we started work
 As the heating needed some work anyway we decided to remove the two small radiators either side of the bay window since they would be an obstruction when placing furniture.  The one remaining radiator on the opposite wall was no longer sufficient to heat the room by itself so that was replaced that with a larger model which will be hidden by the sofa later.  A really obvious tip would be if you are undertaking any electrical or heating work prepare for mess, a lot of mess.
Once all the under floorboard work was done and the built-in's were removed from the alcoves we were ready to rebuilt the room starting at the top.

I'll start my updates with our most finished room right now and that's the Guest Room AKA The Gray Room, you can see from the last post that is wasn't far from being finished a little while ago but in true renovation style the wallpaper we had chosen for the room just did not want to play ball.

We had picked a slightly textured silver gray wallpaper but after applying it to the wall the edge's kept lifting no matter how much attention you gave them and and those that did finally stick were very obvious so we decided to scratch that idea and go back the drawing board.

A unique feature in room is that is has two wiring points for light, originally these both just had a pendant light with a simple paper shade and as we have re-wired the house it was suggest a few times that maybe we should get rid of the two light fittings and have one central light.
We decided to keep the two lights since it's a little quirky and just gives the room that something a little bit different.  For the light fixtures we found some absolutely gorgeous chandeliers from BHS in gun metal coloured crystal and they look amazing if I do say so myself keeping the two lights was definitely the right choice for this room.
In the end since we like the colour above the picture rail so much (Farrow & Ball Pavilion Gray) we decided to fore go wallpaper on the lower section and paint it with the matching paint as above.  Once the paint was dry we just had to move the furniture into the room, all that's missing now is soft furnishings and some little ornamental things.
 And that's the Gray Room so far, do you have quirky features in your house you love? Or maybe something you took out and wish you hadn't, drop me a line in the comments I'd love to hear your stories.

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It would be fair to say I have been a bad blogger when it came to I'll Take Both Interiors but I'm hoping to fix that and get my butt back on track here. 
We had a few weeks at the new house where not much visual seemed to happen but things are really ticking along now and over the next few day's I'd love to show you some pictures of the progress we've made so far and a little project we've started on some chair for the dining room.

Thanks for reading!