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Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

Regular readers will know that I have a very talented other half also known as ‘ Restoration Marc ‘ (with a C please don’t forget that C) An engineer by trade but so much more than that … He can mend anything and I do mean anything. A perfectionist when it comes to painting and decorating, he can make me anything care to dream up, builds walls, fells trees, lays a mean patio and is a bit of a whizz with the plumbing and electricity. Plus if he can’t do it he will always know someone who can. What a man eh?

 

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

 

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The Latest Restoration: from Barn Auction to pride of place.

As well as fulfilling my many requests he will occasionally pick up a project of his own. He will then spend every spare hour, believe me he doesn’t have many of those, stripping, blasting and polishing until a rusty piece of rubbish becomes something astonishingly, beautiful that I welcome into our home.

As I write this he is at another barn Auction and I’m selfishly hoping he doesn’t find anything because our ensuite bathroom is now in need of a complete refurbish. Selfish moi?

 

 

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]He will then spend every spare hour & believe me he doesn’t have many of those, stripping, blasting and polishing until a rusty piece of rubbish becomes something astonishingly, beautiful that I welcome into our home.[/perfectpullquote]

 

This Restoration Backstory:

One Sunday morning I received an excited text from him,  he was at the local Barn Auction and had found something… These are the pictures he sent me via his phone:

In reply I said  ”  lovely darling, can you pick up a pint of milk on your way home?

 

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

 

[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]I said ” lovely darling, can you pick up a pint of milk on your way home? [/perfectpullquote]

 

 

I then thought nothing of it, until he asked me to take some before photos of his new project! Turns out it is a very well made old industrial light. He had to bid hard for it because there was so much interest in it!

 

The Lamp Before Restoration:

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

The Stand Before Restoration :

Apparently it needed a stand of the same era, he was lucky to find one on ebay that would have been used by a surveyor before the digital age. Unfortunately one leg was damaged and it had been painted all over  with a hideous matte black paint , covering the beautiful wood and old brass fittings beneath. It was in a sorry state and desperately in need of some TLC and a full restoration…

 

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

The Lamp & Stand After Restoration:

These pics were taken in his workshop, so not pretty, but you get the idea… Amazing eh?

 

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

 

[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] … and this is what it looks like in our home today:   [/perfectpullquote]

 

After Restoration and in our Home:

The wallpaper in our smallest sitting room is by Mini Moderns it is called Moordale

How about the light, what do you think? I am astonished at how beautiful it turned out to be…. now we just need to move to a house with higher ceilings!

 

 

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

A quick recap for you…

In a matter of weeks it went …

 

Would You Like To See His Latest Amazing Industrial Restoration?

 

Now I have to grab him quick because I need the ensuite bathroom ‘restored’ do tell me what you think of Marc’s project, he always reads the comments…

 

 

 

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