First “real” task on the agenda (after yesterday’s clean etc) is to strip out a er, lovely built in wardrobe.
Looks like it was knocked up by an over zealous chippy when the house was built – complete with a fine example of 1970’s wallpaper for good measure.
Definitely has to go…. Only question is who’s going to give up first? Me or the wardrobe??
The builder definitely didn’t want these to come down without a fight!
I should probably start by stating that I’m definitely not a builder, structural engineer, or to that matter; carpenter. Building anything out of wood, from scratch, isn’t something I would usually do – and isn’t something I’m particularly experienced in doing. As a result, you should not use anything in this post (or others…
It’s arrived! With enough of the house ready to move into, we decided the time had come to get on with moving… Cue one removals van (we’d already packed up & transported pretty much anything that would fit in the cars) along with a couple of suitably burly blokes to move everything left in the…
Haven’t posted anything to here for a while, but work is needless to say very much ongoing! Since the last post bedroom 1 has been replastered (and is still currently slowly drying out before we can paint it!); walls & ceiling in bedroom 2 have been repainted; walls in the “en-suite” have been repainted and…
Tiling’s well underway, and with all the wall tiles firmly in place we made a start on the floor. Started the tiles from the shower tray, with a view to keeping as much floor as possible covered by tiles where splashes are likely! Leaving the first couple of rows to set overnight, the next step…
It was long & drawn out… but the built in wardrobes are no more. (Start to finish in about 4 hours !) I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an over-engineered construction in a bedroom! Today’s flat-pack offerings are positively fragile in comparison, but on the plus side if you decide you’ve had enough…
