Tiled floor!

Finally the tiles arrived! Unfortunately a lot of them were broken on delivery but we got replacements delivered. Nick and I had a long conversation about which way the tiles should be laid, and Nick won!  As his prize he got to seal the floor with linseed oil.  And then wipe it all off with turps when it went all sticky. Unfortunately we left a sponge soaked in linseed oil overnight in the kitchen.  Would you believe it - it spontaneously combusted in the early hours of the morning! Luckily we smelled it before the house set on fire!

 At last we were nearing the stage where we could move into the kitchen.

Mum and Dad come over and Dad fits the utility sink!

We have decided to paint the wall a bright orange colour.
This is going to be a sort of 50's mid century modern weird throw back room with nostalgia from my early childhood and pop art tin can folk decoupage decor...  hummm.

Painting party

Hurrah for my lovely church friends who turned up to help get a base coat on the kitchen-diner!

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"Fresh and Pretty" is what I'm trying to go for.....

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Scaffolding down, plaster up!

Wow, it really does feel like we are coming in to land (finally!!!!)

The scaffolding came down this week! The railings are up and you get to see what we have built in all its glory!

Also the upstairs is plastered, and we are starting to paint!

The ensuite has been the priority this week. We bought some paint and after spending a fortune on tester pots I thought I had what I wanted. Then when we bought £40 worth of paint we started rollering on the walls and Nick said "Oh my goodness it is pink". Now my dear husband is colour blind and not normally a reliable judge... but in this case he was absolutely right. So I had to reach for my acrylic artists paints and started adding "yellow ochre".... oh dear we could end up a real pickle! Fortunately we managed to coax the colour towards the peachy end of the spectrum, which isn't quite what I was going for, but I think we will get away with it.

The plumber has been here the last few days and now the towel rail and bath are in! They are even operational. Nick and I had our first bath in the new extension tonight!!! Ok we did have to tiptoe round the power tools but it was so exciting. We are actually using our new extension!

Wrought iron railings... one for you dad!

Dad, mum says you love all this blacksmithing stuff... get a load of these then! My new railings for upstairs! I didn't just want straight bars because it would feel like we were in a prison or something. The guys doing it were nervous wrecks by the time I popped by- apparently it was really hard because they cant have any gap that is more than 10cms because of building regs. I think they have done a really good job. The only thing I asked them to change was the final bar on the left- to upend it so that the outline was symmetrical. Otherwise it looks a bit drunk.

Happy customer :)

Week 25 - Knock throughs and the dust of doom

They have knocked through. It has happened! The building projected has burst out of its neat little hiding place and is now invading our lives!!! It's a bit like some weird Dr. Who phenomenon where you open a door to another dimension and then shut it again totally confused about where you are!!!

This is downstairs...

This is upstairs.... what a hike to get up to the new bedroom!

Now people warned me about the dust. I thought I could cope with a bit of dust- but its the smell that I wasn't prepared for- the breathing it in- this musty dry peppery smell. Its driving me up the wall and hoovering just seems to make it worse!

Of course we are only at the beginning of the craziness- in a few weeks time they will be knocking walls down in here. I think we may abandon ship for that part...