Painting update

KITCHEN

The kitchen has had it's final coat of 'Beluga song' - kinda lilac kinda grey:

STAIRS & LANDING

First mist coat has gone onto the plaster today. Looking pretty good. Needs 1 more mist coat and then 2 coats of colour. Looking at a very faint offwhite as the Dulux Brilliant white is very white. Options are: Dulux Jasmine White, Dulux polished pebble, or Fine Cream. 

Once colour is on we need to refresh skirtings and then get the new carpet in. 

LOUNGE

The ceiling is now completely painted and finished as are the cornices. The walls have had 2 coats of mist and until we sort the potential damp issue we will hold. The skirting boards and architrave need refreshing and the doors looking at. And of course the new floor.

Various pictures of the various painting stages in the lounge:

Some lounge comparison shots:

And as it now is:

Bedroom update

This is what the bedroom looked like on Day 1:

And now:

And a little before-after shot during the process:

All that is left to do here is:

- paint over skirting

- fit new floors

- fix door or replace & refresh architrave

- get curtains or blinds

Our appliances have arrived!

After 10 days without a fridge, freezer, washing machine or cooker everything arrived this weekend.

Thanks to Andy we have managed to connect them without paying for the charge, and everything seems to be working so far! Fingers crossed.

Bosch washer/dryer and Zanussi freezer and the utility room looks a dream!

Zanussi fridge, Bosch dishwasher and Zanussi induction cooker in the kitchen. Not tried out the dishwasher yet (that is Mark's job!).

Only thing left is to go to the recycling centre and get rid of all the packaging!

Painting mist coats in the bedroom

We have now painted 2 mist coats of white emulsion in the main bedroom. Just need to do 2 coats of colour now.

Thinking of the Farrow & Ball Ringwold Ground colour, has warm red undertones. 

Investigating the loft

The chimney stack looks pretty stacked & normal to me! Everything looking dry... How exciting.

In the right hand corner of the loft picture above is a very heavy chest! It is a chest of treasures - literally left by a previous owner from many many years ago. Apparently it is full of vintage silverware and glassware. How exciting. We have recovered a silver cake stand (will polish it up and then post pic),

You can see the chest in the picture below:

The floorboards in the loft aren't very stable, so you have to be very careful so as to not break them and then make a massive hole in the ceiling (like my ex-flatmate did many years ago!): 

Mark climbed up there, I however chose not too... Coward!

Lots of spider webs up there. Suspicious...

Livable?

I think the house is just about livable.

Mark and I had our first respective showers today- not as brilliant as our previous flat shower but does the job.

The lounge is looking livable?

Really missing the sofas. Especially when you are ill and can't lie down on sofa.

And I didn't have a flower vase so I used the tea caddy instead:

And here is that curious damp plaster:

Must be rain coming down chimney?
Ideas?

Moving day update

Luckily all the plasterwork is done.

The utility room has been retiled: 

The source of the leak from bedroom 2 - loose pipe connection:

The dried up lounge: