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Rooms 4 & 5 – Welcome home!

  • By Higham Hall
  • Sep 21, 2016
  • Higham Musings, Improvement Projects

Those students who are familiar with these two bedrooms may identify with the fact that they both suffered from ‘snore-bleed’ through the adjoining wall. This was due to the fact that when the rooms were originally divided many years ago, the wall between them was just a stud partition. Now, however, it has been enhanced 

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Come in Rooms 4 & 5 – your time is up!

  • By Higham Hall
  • Sep 10, 2016
  • Higham Musings, Improvement Projects

For a long time the wafer-thin wall between 4 & 5 has allowed deep snorers to keep their neighbours awake. Well, we are eliminating this problem, prior to a redecoration, by putting up an acoutsically-dampening wall between these two bedrooms. Room 5 has also over the years suffered from a bit of water ingress – 

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It’s Curtains for Bedroom 2!

  • By Higham Hall
  • Sep 10, 2016
  • Higham Musings, Improvement Projects

Finally we have managed to put up new curtains in the redecorated Room 2. The choices of colour and pattern have been very, very deliberate for reasons of both usability and aesthetics. The material chosen reflects the scheme’s queues taken from the framed piece of wallpaper on the feature wall, itself of a colour dictated 

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