Wanders back into the yard after a few months mostly absent, ah yes, a rambling thread about combi'sWell, a few months of frenzied DIY draw to a close and our house is on the market (fingers crossed). I must say, that doing all those 'little' jobs (some not so little....) has made a great difference to the general feel and appearance of the house.
anyway, thoughts turn to buying, in serious way.
One of the top contenders is a nice big old (obviously...) Victorian house - It's not in bad nick, but just been pondering the work we might end up doing.
Still has all the nice old cornices etc. around the ceiling, no of course the ceilings are cracking etc. - and are either papered - but still showing badly, or Artexed. At some point I would like to sort out the ceilings if we bought it, but I'm wondering how we would go about it. Whacking up some knew plasterboard and skimming (as we did here) isn't an option with all the nice cornices - what could be done? Anyone renovated these?