Lounge floor

The lounge floor is down - just to get the skirtings on and finish it up now! 

Painting the lounge

Our lounge after the damp proofing and minus the floor

Finally getting the paint on in the loung

Whoop! paint complete

Damp proofing the lounge

So the floor came up in the lounge over Easter to try to tackle the rising damp issue:

We then had the external wall of the lounge damp-proofed and replastered up to 1m to stop the rising damp.

Entrance mirror

We went looking for a nest of tables and came out with this oak wooden mirror for £55!! Matches side board perfectly and is an excellent addition to the room. Changes the feel of the room! 

Bedroom wardrobe

How could I forget? Our bedroom wardrobe, put up after a lot of sweat and tears!

Bedroom mirror and painting

Had a couple of issues hanging things to the wall, but the new Takker helped us!!

FINISHED Stairs and landing

Progress over the last few weeks:

1) Andy stripped the skirting on the stairs and handrail on the landing.

2) Dad painted the handrail on the landing with dark oak varnish stain & we repainted all the skirting, door frames and doors upstairs:

3) Dad and mum took the stair carpet off and scrubbed the stairs:

4) We finally got the new carpet for the stairs and landing! 

And some before-after shots:

And some more:

Day 1

During: scraping back the artex

During: freshly skimmed

During: drying plaster

During: mist coat

During - painted with Dulux Timeless

During: stripped skirting

During: painted skirting and removed carpet

THE END

Lounge curtains are up!

Stripping paint

Andy has stripped the hallway paint from the skirting boards!! Busy week for him: 

Bedroom curtains and flooring!

Our new curtains are finally up in the bedroom.

And the blackout lining:

And the skirting boards have been painted & the flooring is nearly in...

Bathroom ideas

We had our second design appointment with the designer from Wickes.

Here is what our design looks like.

BEFORE LEFT - as you walk in, the area to the left of the door (with the extension into bedroom 3 and the fake 'room' type thing):

AFTER  LEFT -What the man proposes this area will look like after. Don't forget that the ceiling will not look like this - take our ceiling and pretend it is there.....:

With full size mirror

With mirror cabinet instead - for storage

BEFORE RIGHT - as you walk in through the door this is the current view to the right of the door:

AFTER right- man proposes to build fake wall over door to hide the door and then do a wall-to-wall shower as in diagram below. You can see the fake wall below. Don't forget that the door shown in this schematic is a normal door and that ours is a 'pop' door which slides sideways. Sadly the landing/bathroom does not have the required building regulations space for a normal door so we are stuck with the pop sliding door.
You can also see the moved radiator is pic below. 

Finally, the bird's eye view is:

A small bathroom, but hopefully with a bit more breathing space. Had to compromise some space between sink and toilet, so might be a bit claustrophobic? 

Has to be better than what we have got at the moment though surely?!

The man has not included the cost of refurbishing the ceiling as we would need to talk to the installer directly and he would quote us on the job.

Guess how much this costs! Answers via email.