After a tedious couple of weeks, the transformation of our old kitchen into a dining room is nearly complete.
Aside from needing to hang a couple of doors, all that’s really left to do is sealing & painting the walls & ceiling.
That’s tomorrows job, followed by the skirting & anything else wooden that needs a coat of paint..
The end is (finally) in sight!
Before the room can be plastered next week, the original plumbing that previously served the kitchen sink & appliances needed to be removed – paving the way for a cleanly filled & plastered wall. Unfortunately, as you can see the pipework disappears off under the floor somewhere and at the moment we have no idea…
Feels like progress.. Got home to find that we’d gone from grey vinyl tiles to a nearly finished new floor in the space of a day! The cat’s a little unsure about the changes at the moment though…. Much more to do yet however. The rest of the floor needs to be fitted by the…
As mentioned elsewhere, this blog has recently been moved off the elderly WordPress platform to a shiny new blogging engine called Ghost. Ghost is a brilliant new way of managing your content, and one that’s simpler and faster than WordPress. Enough about the technology though. Once I’d moved the blog over, on looking through the…
With the flooring prepared, joists strengthened & route prepared for the waste pipework; the first major task in the bathroom build was to install the shower tray on the required mortar base. Given the size, shape & weight of the tray this was no easy feat – and as a result, not many photos were…
Having finally had enough time to make a start, the rest of the old kitchen’s stay of execution has expired. The remaining cabinets put up a surpassingly tough fight considering the state of them but it didn’t take too long to remove them. Based on the delights found previously in this house I wasn’t particularly…
One of the distinguishing “features” installed by the previous owner was a wood-panelled ceiling. Perhaps not quite to everyone’s taste… and definitely not to ours…! Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t particularly well attached and soon parted company with a little persuasion to reveal that it had simply been put up underneath the original plasterboard ceiling, which…
