We finally paint the room in our Bulgarian homestead | DIY house renovation

Today we're painting the room in our abandoned Bulgarian house but first we had to clear everything out and fill the cracks and that came with its own challenges. Where Chris and Elaine we left the UK to reset and bought an abandoned house in Bulgaria. We have three kids and an adopted stray dog. This is what the property looked like when we moved in but unbeknownst to us we would soon face even bigger challenges which we'll talk about in future videos. When we decided to renovate our house the first thing we discussed was the colour scheme. Do we keep it calm and safe or experiment with new colours? For us we wanted our home to feel cosy, a place that makes us happy and inspired. We both have to agree on the colour choice so this decision was always going to be hard. Our property is built with traditional materials. What we would call plaster it's a mix of sand, lime and hay spread as a top layer over the bricks. This creates a warm foundation but it comes with its own drawbacks. When renovating a traditional house you either strip away the old material and start again or retain the traditional foundation and build on top of what's already there. We decided to keep the original. Honestly choosing the former would mean reinstating everything and that would have tripled the cost. Whilst painting I've encountered a few little problems. The filler that was put onto the wall, some parts of it are falling away. Not sure if it's because it's not set properly yet or the quality of the filler. I don't know I've never really had that happen before. Normally if you with a filler it normally sticks but anyway we've just got to carry on. What we'll do I'll give it one coat first and then once it dries I'll then go back over or the bits that are falling away, the filled bits that are falling away we'll refill those areas and then I'll give it another coat. So at the moment though the actual paint itself is taking okay you know it's taken quite well so yeah let's carry on. I've got one more little bit there to do then what I will do is use the smaller brushes to cut into the corners. It's a little bit tricky getting into the corners with the roller. Also what I'm finding is if I keep going over the paint with the roller it's taking away some of the wall so I have to be very careful with how I paint, keep rolling over the paint on the wall otherwise it's just literally eroding as I'm rolling. So I'm hoping the first, as I said earlier, the first coat will just give it a bit of firming and then the second coat will hopefully give it a nice finish. So yeah hope you guys are enjoying the video don't forget to like and subscribe. See you at the end when I'm finished. Right we're almost done. Get the paint brush and just cut into the little corners and then leave it to dry for a moment and then give it a second coat. Then I'm going to start on the feature wall which is a completely The room, the white area has been done. I'm just about to do the feature wall this colour. I don't know how it's going to look but hopefully it will look okay. I'm just going to test it. Okay that actually looks okay. Actually looks okay. You see the colour that is it. The girls have seen it too. What do you guys think? Yeah you like it. It's very colourful isn't it. Wouldn't have been a colour that we would have normally have chosen but now that we've got it, it actually pops. I really like it. It should dry matte so it shouldn't really have that shine shortly but it will dry matte and we're going to change the area. So I've got paint in my hand but that area over there will be changed as well. We'll discuss what that's all going to be soon but for now it's just about colouring All done. We've spent the last three days getting this room painted, well filled firstly before the cracks, before the holes. We rubbed it down. That took about two days didn't it. Yeah and it was so dusty in here. Then obviously we had to paint the room and whilst painting the filler and the cement the original lime cement that's on the walls was falling away. It wasn't It's so insulated and like we said before you've got the lime cement stone then you've got the in some parts in the auto part of it some parts like the chimney breast area you've got the hay which is mixed in with the cement underneath yeah you've got three or four different layers before you get to the brick yeah and when you touch the walls most part of it's warm and it's something you don't get with raw brick or plasterboard or just plaster. And also it's breathable so in the winter time it keeps the heat in and in the summer time it actually is very cool in here apart from the fact that we would have opened up a whole new can of worms if we took away the walls the original structure it is actually a lot more beneficial to keep the walls original. Also we don't realise because it's made out of more natural materials yes later it's breathable and that's why you get little tiny cracks in there which appear and clearly that's because they've used natural materials yeah which is better than using the fake stuff we used to. I wasn't completely sold I was like I want it not ultra-modern I don't like ultra-modern but I want it more modern yeah straight walls but now it's done I see like Elaine's convinced me the cottagey feel and I thought yeah the back end will grow a bit add enough to the car like 74. This will all be transformed so what do you guys think of the actual colour this is the feature wall here what we're then going to do is accessorise it we'll be building stuff there'll be hanging units in here it'll be accessorised the lights will be changed and we've got some creative innovative ideas I think that should really go well with the colours in here I need to plan and draw how I'm going to build it so bits of green you see has not done yet yeah I'm going to change the colour of the back so focus on the white and the whatever I don't know what colour it is it doesn't even say what colour it is on the back it's just a colour it was a nice happy inspirational colour just for you who think oh that's orange that's pink you know it's not any of them it's a colour it's not pink it's not peach it's not orange and it's not red and what is it it's not terracotta neither no so on the camera it looks pink orange it's not it's honestly it's a weird colour it's great on me and it's very warm when you walk in here yeah why am I going to take that now and destroy it and it's built for but it's been here for years years yeah so in terms of the colour we wanted something that was a bit more inspirational a bit more colourful a bit more happy we want to be at home and want to feel happy whilst we're inside as well as outside this is a bit of an unusual colour for us we wouldn't have normally gone with a colour pop like this yeah but I think it is gonna work who's winning? well I am I wouldn't have generally gone with a colour pop like this normally I would follow Chris's advice and go with a kind of a safe colour let's put it that way safe colour which is your moccas your greens your magnolias nice colours though they're nice but they're safe you know and that is that is good but I think in a in a property like this bear in mind we're starting fresh in Bulgaria we want it to be completely different from what we've done in the UK and this is what we've gone with fresh you're starting fresh you know this is the brightest thing in the whole of our village the brightest thing our village is so dull not the people the village is so dull and this is the brightest thing in the whole village and we've got plans also for the rest of the rooms this is just one of the fixes we've done so far we've got like said we're going to build things we're going to change some areas maybe some windows but we've got a lot of things planned for this room this room's let us know what your thoughts are in the comments below thank you all so much for joining us on this episode we'll see you next time bye