Shaynna Blaze (1 Euro House)

One of the most impressive decisions in the first episode was, was removing the existing bedroom ceiling and exposing that enormous roof line above it.

It completely changed the proportions of the room and revealed something beautiful that had effectively been hidden inside the house.

When the bedroom was completed, the ceiling was painted white, but the original timber beams retained their natural color with what looked like patches or traces of white still visible across them.

Was that deliberately left imperfect to preserve the age and rustic character of the house, or were we seeing a part of the ceiling that still required further restoration? I'm just wondering how you decide whi- which marks, um, which marks of age are valuable character, which ones simply look unfinished.

Well, the ceiling was, um, to be whitewashed, and so when you whitewash something, the, the percentage of paint to water is usually about 20%, and so paint to water was about 20%.

And when it was first put in, it soaked it up so much 'cause it had zero, um, seal on it, and it just absorbed everything in.

It was pure white.

So it was one of those things where we actually had to sand it right back.

So we sanded back the, um, the planks and then also the beams, and the beams were just too white.

So it was a case of taking it back and then leaving little bits and pieces was more of a case of, like, what had soaked in too much and gave us the accidental rustic look.

[laughs]

[laughs] I like that, accidental.

And it, and it, and it is those things that, you know, e- everything that you tackle in these types of places are completely unknown, and it's what's going to work and what's not going to work.

And, um, whitewashing, it's done all the time and, and Scott said, "Yeah, I've done heaps of them." But these timbers were so raw, and they just absorbed at a rapid rate that Scott's like, "I can't stop it." [laughs]

One of the most impressive decisions in the first episode was, was removing the existing bedroom ceiling and exposing that enormous roof line above it.

It completely changed the proportions of the room and revealed something beautiful that had effectively been hidden inside the house.

When the bedroom was completed, the ceiling was painted white, but the original timber beams retained their natural color with what looked like patches or traces of white still visible across them.

Was that deliberately left imperfect to preserve the age and rustic character of the house, or were we seeing a part of the ceiling that still required further restoration? I'm just wondering how you decide whi- which marks, um, which marks of age are valuable character, which ones simply look unfinished.

Well, the ceiling was, um, to be whitewashed, and so when you whitewash something, the, the percentage of paint to water is usually about 20%, and so paint to water was about 20%.

And when it was first put in, it soaked it up so much 'cause it had zero, um, seal on it, and it just absorbed everything in.

It was pure white.

So it was one of those things where we actually had to sand it right back.

So we sanded back the, um, the planks and then also the beams, and the beams were just too white.

So it was a case of taking it back and then leaving little bits and pieces was more of a case of, like, what had soaked in too much and gave us the accidental rustic look.

[laughs]

[laughs] I like that, accidental.

And it, and it, and it is those things that, you know, e- everything that you tackle in these types of places are completely unknown, and it's what's going to work and what's not going to work.

And, um, whitewashing, it's done all the time and, and Scott said, "Yeah, I've done heaps of them." But these timbers were so raw, and they just absorbed at a rapid rate that Scott's like, "I can't stop it." [laughs]