Other odds and ends...

We've been beavering away on other projects too.

This is the guests bedroom. It's where our daughter was sleeping before we did her room. You can't quite see it, but we went through the wall here and took some of the bathroom to make a guests en-suite.

This is that en-suite. The dark walls are the shower enclosure - it's Adex and it's a sort of liquid tanking. It should be totally unnecessary if the tiles are done right (and they will be - we have a great tiler), but if nothing else they give a good key for the tile adhesive to grip too.

I fitted the bath at the weekend. Not had a bath in it yet, but looking forward to it. It's in the same place as the old one, but as you can see, you're facing it from the new doorway now.

This is the family bathroom's shower enclosure. To fit it and insulate the walls, we had to buy space technology insulation. Plasterboard never cost as much! It's used in Passivhaus builds.

This is just a view down the hall upstairs showing he plasterboards and the rewiring.

Eve's room

When we bought the house, the removal men wanted to know where we wanted stuff left. There's a room over the kitchen which is basically in the roofspace, and so is in the eaves. So we said, put that in the eaves room. After a while, seeing we had 2 kids, and neither of them were called Eve, they were a bit confused!

Anyway, Eve's room is that one with the little dormer window.

It looked like this not long before we moved in.

We've been umming and ahhing about what do do with Eve's room, the dormer window is a bit shabby and looked like it needed sorting out. It also really just looks onto a wall - the outside wall of the shower room next to the master bedroom. So in the end we've decided to double the size of the dormer and do a full job on the room.

So today, it looks like this:

Completely stripped, and the next job is to start the major surgery.

The decision to really get to grips with the room was a good one. Water had been getting in from the outside on the edges of the dormer and had rotted the rafter next to it. This had been bodged up by pinning some batten to the edge of the rafter.

Not good. So a victory for gut feel for once...

More kitchen...

The kitchen is a major project, but is now cracking on at quite a pace. These pics are how it looked about a month ago.

View into what's the breakfast room, or 'area'

Next wall down is into the kitchen proper

You can see in this one that there's a steel beam where there's the second wall down, or in this case the third room to be converted to being part of the kitchen. The studding is the wall between the kitchen and the downstairs loo to be.

Now the kitchen looks even more different.

It's been insulated and plastered out, the electrics are in, the underfloor heating is in. The above view is from the very back wall - kind of over where the sink will be.

That alcove over on the left is where the hob will be, and that red shape on the floor is going to be where the island is going to sit. The doorway on the left is the entrance to the pantry, which is a walk in job, albeit quite narrow and with not much headroom.

This pic is the breakfast room or 'area'. It faces East, which is perfect for morning light through the bifolds. Clearly then the windows on the right face south, so should be light all the time in there more or less. The wires sticking out of the wall above the bifolds are speaker wire. We're having a little stereo that lives in the cupboard on the left you can see.

We're having the kitchen made by a joiner. The above pic is the unit to house the fridge.

The sink unit along the back wall.

This is the island. Shows the quality of the drawer boxes - they're 22mm thick!

Island from the other side.

This will be the unit that contains the ovens and will have the hob on top of it. That is close to the finished colour, but it will need more paint.