Easter weekend - or DIY weekend... a focus on sorting out the door frames (replacing the top of the architrave means that the door frames all need painting as you can't purchase gloss that looks 20 years old). Fun.
Before:
After:
So there is priming and sanding down and final coats to still be done - but good improvement and a coat of paint around the whole landing looks really good.
Project #49 - update: another 5 hours of my life lost to painting spindles. SUPER BORING. And it looks.... exactly the same. Awesome.
Somehow 2014 became 2015 and then, 2015 became 2016... not a lot of progress on the house really... some minor updates... BUT - now we have motivation... as we need to rent out said house in about 8-10 weeks. So it needs to be FINISHED...
Project #46 - a distant memory of the old kitchen...
Project #47... Those 80's windows?? Gone...
Old ones (no good photos of these):
And now - no windows....
Still some painting and finishing off to do on this one...
Project #48 - that horrid yellow bedroom??
Not so yellow now...
Still some work to do there - we don't plan on keeping the red velvet curtains... honest.
Project #49 - probably one of the many job we would not have started had we realised we need to get going pretty soon...
To this (this has taken at least 6 months already - it took 10 mins to remove the originals and the spindles & newels went up a couple of weekend back. So 6 months with a stair hole with no banisters.
Still some painting to do...
Project #50 - the hall floor...
Before:
After (the floor is a nice engineered wood floor now, looks different in real life):
(and a new radiator)...
Other major updates:
- Yasmin the Jasmin is just a slow grower
- The BIG TREE has gone
- We are still waiting conservatory re-build
- Still not new new carpet (it's coming, i can feel it)
- Patio will be fixed also
- This list of stuff needs to be done:
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Will try and keep more up to date...! :-)
That time has come, we can no longer put off the kitchen. It has started...
First unit off...
This pack of spaghetti was behind the unit (no idea how it go there), considering we moved in in 2011, i'm guessing it's been down there for at least 7 years?! Ha!
Temporary kitchen in the conservatory...
Brown tiles are all gone...
Orange floor is gone!
New holes for new spots and wiring completed...
Walls prepped for plastering...
Door frames stripped for new paint...
Holes from tiles & new wires for under cupboard lighting...
No tap...
Temporary taps...
Plastered!
Part painted...
Break for thai food...
Second coat coming along...
Already a massive improvement! We will not miss those purple walls! :-)
