Bringing us up to date on the odds and ends in the last post.
We've had the tiler in (a bit) in the en-suite in the guest bedroom:
I suppose with it half done, it could almost look like we're taking apart, rather than building it up. However, it's definitely the latter. Mark, our tiler, is a great bloke, but he fits us in after work and on weekends, so it moves more slowly. Not that we're bothered - he's been moving on in the kitchen too as you will see.
The guest room has stalled slightly because of this:
It's a wet patch on the ceiling where a chimney goes. That got sorted this week, so there's plasterboard over that now. But we were hanging around a bit waiting for the roofer to sort that (and other bits and bobs) out.
The eaves room went from:
to:
with extra
You can see the dormer's extended and there's two windows in it now. It's a bit plastic fantastic in terms of the windows, facias etc,, but at least it's low maintenance. All new timber windows is out of our price range, :(.
Downstairs, the new woodburner is in, in the playroom:
It sits on a hearth of quarry tiles that were out in the garden disguised as a greenhouse path, We've not had a really hot fire in it yet, hence the blackened glass. The patches on the walls are our experiments with colours. The boxes you can see are full of LED lights from ecoled.co.uk. Since we started on the kitchen, the playroom has been a bit of a dumping ground. All got to change soon!
The unit is now revealed - it does look good, but it will look better once the trims are in to trim it to the walls and ceiling. And of course the rest of the room is done.
Those boxes in the foreground are the two ovens for the kitchen, an induction hob, and a warming drawer. That big mirror is not for the bedroom ceiling - it's for the bathroom. It's now on the wall up there - took some getting up there I can tell you! The thing in the corner is another mirror for the boot room.
The mirror thing reminded me - we're not passengers in this story - there's lots of work being done by me and my wife. Getting that mirror upstairs and into position took massive effort from both of us. Today she's been stripping wallpaper, I've been wiring in speakers - I'm pretty worn out this weekend!
We've had the tiler in (a bit) in the en-suite in the guest bedroom:
I suppose with it half done, it could almost look like we're taking apart, rather than building it up. However, it's definitely the latter. Mark, our tiler, is a great bloke, but he fits us in after work and on weekends, so it moves more slowly. Not that we're bothered - he's been moving on in the kitchen too as you will see.
The guest room has stalled slightly because of this:
It's a wet patch on the ceiling where a chimney goes. That got sorted this week, so there's plasterboard over that now. But we were hanging around a bit waiting for the roofer to sort that (and other bits and bobs) out.
The eaves room went from:
to:
with extra
You can see the dormer's extended and there's two windows in it now. It's a bit plastic fantastic in terms of the windows, facias etc,, but at least it's low maintenance. All new timber windows is out of our price range, :(.
Downstairs, the new woodburner is in, in the playroom:
It sits on a hearth of quarry tiles that were out in the garden disguised as a greenhouse path, We've not had a really hot fire in it yet, hence the blackened glass. The patches on the walls are our experiments with colours. The boxes you can see are full of LED lights from ecoled.co.uk. Since we started on the kitchen, the playroom has been a bit of a dumping ground. All got to change soon!
The unit is now revealed - it does look good, but it will look better once the trims are in to trim it to the walls and ceiling. And of course the rest of the room is done.
You can see the state of the room. And also you can see into what will be the utility room once the kitchen is done. That piece of furniture through the second door is a dresser that came from our old house which will live in our new kitchen. Winter's drawing in, hence the halogens.
The Dining room has been plastered out:
The mirror thing reminded me - we're not passengers in this story - there's lots of work being done by me and my wife. Getting that mirror upstairs and into position took massive effort from both of us. Today she's been stripping wallpaper, I've been wiring in speakers - I'm pretty worn out this weekend!
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