Bomb Site House 1940 Interior Part Eight

By Veronica Tonge

Creativity will have to go on hold as Veronica has to focus on others of life. Work on the restoration will be ongoing from here. 

Before and after shots included in this the final post. 

 

 

BOMB SITE HOUSE in 2013, as it was collected from a hospice charity shop near London. This is the view from the back, which had push on cover. Roof flap detached and the 1940 light switches sprouting a party successful 1960s rewire (the downstairs lights only worked).

Several doors and one sliding wall were missing, and the front of the base was detached, making the whole house, in spite of it being made or oak salvaged from a bomb site, very structurally unstable. The bathroom walls were covered in 1960s sticky back plastic. Red felt 'fitted carpet', dirty and mouldy, was in all rooms - and a thick coat of white gloss paint obscured the original 1940s decor. It was going to be a proper job getting it back to something like its original look. 

 

 

The push-on back of BOMB SITE HOUSE,

also with protective anti-blast wire and shellac windows, which were fitted all round by the policeman and fireman who made the house in 1940, during the London blitz.

 

 

 

 

BOMB SITE HOUSE Partly Restored 13 May. All the missing doors were remade, the sliding doors to the sitting/room library downstairs left reconstructed from the owner’s remembered description. Original mustard yellow decor to the right either revealed by careful scraping and chipping off or repainted in a similar colour. Bedrooms and sitting room repapered in a version 1930s/40s hand stippled wallpaper in period tones of blues, pinks and greeny gold. The bedroom floors were papered in soft blue and brownish textured paper imitating linoleum and the sitting room floor, still in its original dark varnished wood, was cleaned of white gloss splodges and revarnished where necessary. My vision for this house is to return it to as near original look and atmosphere as possible and the restoration will be continued as and when.

Bomb Site House packed nice and safe until there is time to work on it again