We’ve almost finished the front…
Jun
28
The front garden been an embarrassment for a while so we’ve thrown some effort at it. After one weekend the concrete is up, and the new little retaining Walls are (they wont retain much).
Jun
18
I’m not a massive fan of doing pointing. It’s slow, repetitative and boring. Looks good though if I do say so myself. Can you spot the difference?
Jan
01
Well it’s been a while since we’ve updated but we’ve been furiously busy and the top floor is really starting to take shape. Here we go…
Starting up from the ground floor stairs the wall on the left has been plastered, it’s now flat.
Looking down the stairs the area around the front door is ready to be plastered.
On the first floor plastering continues but then the view up the first floor stairs improves…
And looking down you get a hint at what’s coming…
The entrance hallway to the 3rd floor
then looking up you see light pouring in through the skylight…
…and we’re into the top floor bedroom.
Again the light coming through the bedroom skylight is beautiful 
and casts some great shapes because of the curves of the ceiling 
Jan
18
We’re working on the hall, stairs, landing and back bedroom right now. Here’s some pictures
Nov
30
This is me sanding the floor with a really heavy industrial sander…there was a lot of dust and it was all a bit crazy….it was also seriously hot.
The floor did look good when it was done though. After we did this we did a lot of sanding and then we papered the walls with lining paper. It was frustrating!
We’ve also put up some old fashioned coving!
Aug
05
Here we go, some pictures of the very starkly painted white lounge. It’s only white to seal the plaster…we’ve moved into the lounge though!
Jun
03
Whilst we were away, Bill came down and did a fantastic job on the lounge, well what will be the lounge. When we left it was pretty bare, and there was no floor on the back section – what will be the dining room and it was brick walls everywhere. When we came back the walls were pretty much plastered and the dining room floor was laid with 3 inch thick concrete. That floor took 63 bags of sand to complete.
A couple of weekends before we went away we got some much needed help from Phil, Steve and Pat to fill two skips, unfortunately the frantic pace of filling the skips meant that we forgot to get any photographic evidence…
Finally for this post are some pictures of the now very nearly complete kitchen, with grouted tiles and everything!
Mar
30
This weekend’s fun came in the shape of doing a number of odd jobs on Saturday by putting up blinds and tiling upside down, but more on that in a second.
This is Donna bravely taking down the top of the small chimney stack on the old kitchen roof. As you can see it was slightly on the windy side so a really silly hat was called for.
Taking it down wasn’t too hard, it kind just fell apart and only needed a little teasing with hammer.
After the chimney came down we got on with some tiling. The last few bits of upside down tiling – the underside of the chimney in the kitchen that’s going to have the cooker hood in it and the top of the chimney.
Keeping the pattern in check was a little on the tricky side, but the final effect looks really rather good we think!
