Upstairs

Bit of progress made upstairs in the landing/corridor department. Here's the before:

Here's during (with added father-in-law). The things sticking out of the ceiling are drivers for LED lamp units.

And here's how it is now - the cables hanging down are for mains circuit smoke alarms.

Mini-dressing room / Lobby

We decided that it would be nice if our bathroom was actually en-suite, rather than just next door to the master bedroom. So this was it before - looking out of the master bedroom (having stripped the wallpaper and so on):

This is the entrance now - the stud wall's been built, the cables on the floor on the picture above have now been routed into the loft and the plastering's been done. I've also painted the walls orange to prank my wife!

And here it is from the other angle - just need some doors and a floor and a proper colour etc. But it's getting there...

Office & messing in boats

We're getting there on the office - the room is decorated, the floor is in, there's some network cabling to complete and the door to paint and hang, but it's nearly there. Trouble is it's so tiny that you can't really photograph it. So this is from outside, showing mostly the window!

You can see the network cables coming in through the ceiling - that needs smartening up, but basically the house has been wired upstairs and down with CAT5E cable, but mostly where there's TV or kids room and there's some in the loft too.

Sometimes it's nice to have a break and mess about in a boat - as a vaguely house related item, you can see the new jetty in the background.

Bit of gardening

A couple of posts ago I showed the 'corridor' that was made when we bought the first row of trees in the orchard and fenced/hedged that into the garden:

Well that corridor is a bit odd, and while we need some of the trees on the left in the photo to hide the sheds and so on, we don't need them all.

So a few have come out. Bit of sorting/tidying to do!

This shows how the corridor has been reduced, and the garden opened up.

And from the other direction. You can see all the way to the orchard now. Side to side, the garden is about 90 yards.

Rooms with a view

There's so much still to do. But sometimes you have to pause and look out of the window:

.... and remind yourself of how much there is to do! This is the view across the front garden from the master bedroom.

This is the view from the window facing the rear of the master bedroom. You can see the back door receiving attention on a pair of trestles and a digger and dumper ready for action.

This is the view across the front garden from the guest bedroom. A reminder that we still have lots to do outside when we've done inside!

A bit of action downstairs...

We left the downstairs like this in the last post about it:

Since then, the plasterers came, and we decorated the ceiling and were about to fit the light units.

Also cracked on in the downstairs loo, which is also a loo for the two young cats we've adopted.

Again, this is one of those rooms where we're on the cusp of completion. Need a door, some mirrors hung up and a piece of stone for the top of the hidden flushing unit.

Aforementioned cats.

Guest Bedroom

We've had a real go at the guest bedroom. The house has 5 bedrooms, so although we have the eaves room, our main spare bedroom (sounds very grand!) is this one. Here it is:

Clearly the 'before' shots. This is 'as viewed' before we bought.

I haven't got many 'during' - there was a lot of 'during' on this room. Here it is, still in 'during' state, but getting there:

And then with the final clour coat:

This shot taken from the door into the room. It's a kind of deep cream colour. Might sound a bit boring, but there's lots going on the walls of this room.

The new en-suite for the room. We took some of the space from the main bathroom to create this.

View out from the corner of the room. We're waiting for a door for the bathroom, but apart from that, it's carpets, furniture and pics and stuff....