List to complete .....

*Excuse quality of all pics .... Reza broke our proper camera so using my phone*

Last week I made myself a list of all the jobs that needed completing in the rooms we've already worked on (bathroom etc) and the plan is to finish all of these before doing ANYTHING else! It was also save up some money :)

This weekend I was determined to make a start and get at least 2 things done. It worked quite well!

Fit blind in the bathroom - DONE
Varnish bathroom door - DONE
Go to dump - DONE
Clean out BBQ - DONE
Make log store - DONE

The bathroom blind looks really good (thanks Dad!) and now people can't see us in the shower! phew ....



We had about 10 palettes in our back garden so I thought it would be a good idea to make a log store (plus we were running out of dry wood). Reza and Matt got to work yesterday afternoon and came up with this which I'm really pleased with. Plus we've now got lots of chopped up wood to use on the fire.






Reza and I talked about the next big plan which I think will now be getting a big shed up in the garden, moving all the tools etc into that and then working on my office (where the tools currently are). There's no rush and as above we've still go lots to do everywhere else.

Oh, we had a BBQ on Sat. That was fun :) lol

Stevo the hero

Just found this hahahahaha

Weekend building work

Now the downstairs toilet and bathroom have been ripped out that room became one big room with a couple of walls where the toilet was. Reza and Stevo decided to knock them down themselves. I think at one point they did get crushed!! I was called to help so it must have been dangerous ....




Reza's uncle came round on Sat to block up the door to the kitchen and tidy up the wall where the new door to the office is going to be. It looks good, not really weird to not have a door there as I don't think we're ever used it!










Next steps are getting the walls rendered and plastered. Also need a door frame/door and move the water main as it comes up in the middle of the room (almost). Looking forward to moving in but a little way off yet.....

Towel rail

Finished Bathroom and Snow

Bit of a random post but realised I hadn't put any finished pictures of the bathroom up so took some this morning.

All there is to finish now is put a blind up, probably a shower screen and to box in the soil stack once the council have been to inspect.

Here it is (practically ...) finished!






Also - some snow pics as it's snowing today. Unfortunately I can't really take any of the front of the house as it's full of junk (which is actually probably covered up with the snow by now!)

2010 is here!

Wow, haven't updated this for ages. Lots has happened ... mainly all yesterday!

Had a lovely Xmas - not much rennovation work and lots of red wine :) Although I think we more than made up for it this week when we decided to re-do the kitchen. We'd managed to get a new but temporary kitchen for £100 so thought it was a good opportunity to get it smartened up.

I spend most of the week painting the entire thing from a horrible yellow colour to white. It did look a tad bright! We had the new cooker installed (freebie!) on Thurs and set to work on Sat morning. By this evening it's now finished and looking fab!! I think we may paint it again so the entire thing isn't white and replace the tiles but it's looking a million times better.

From this:






A bit of work:






It now looks like this:






I love it!!

Also the boys had a bit of a manic moment and decided to rip out the old bathroom yesterday evening and knock all the walls down. Wow .... lots of mess.

We have fire!!

Returned from holiday in the hope that our lovely peice of slate would be delivered for the hearth and everything ready to go for the stove installation today. No such luck!

Arrived back and the hearth still hadn't been delivered AAARGH. A few hours later it finally turned up (2 days late) and we took it home ready to lay only to find .... the inside bit was too big!!! Miles too big, it obviously wasn't checked at all.

We called the fireplace guy who advised us if he didn't install today it would be after Jan. grrrrrr Our only option was to cut the slate ourselves. Reza did an ace job and in the end it wasn't too much of a problem but it wasn't what we needed the evening we got back from our relaxing holiday!

Stove has now been installed as is burning away as I type. I have managed to set the smoke alarms off a few times ... whooops. I was told it will smoke for a bit until all the paint fumes etc burn off. Here's the pics. We do everything backwards and the whole room is totally un-decorated so there's lots more to come.