Green house!

You are probably unaware that our lovely old cream house  (circa 1895) has in fact for many years been covered in plastic weatherboard cladding!!

It looks OK until you touch it and it creaks!!!! Apparently it was all the rage once with no doubt some smooth talking Sales Rep gushing over the fact that once it was on you would never need to paint again! Today (obviously in an insane moment of truly believing l had absolutely nothing better to do)...l ripped some off!! It was actually quite difficult as it was very firmly in place with lots of long galvanised clouts................But nothing that a good old wrecking bar could'nt deal with!

 Just the tiny bit on the veranda by the front door.

What a discovery! What amazes me is that the boards only have two coats of paint on them. This lovely Arsenic Green and a cream underneath. So for all its years it's only been painted twice! Not looking forward to ripping off the cladding on the south side of the place...... A few rotten boards l would imagine!

But we wont be in a hurry to do that and for now we are going to enjoy the shabby faded look! l just love it!!!!