Time to paint!

On 18th July I began the task of painting the plaster with white bare plaster paint. I know you can use normal paint watered down, but this paint had great reviews and seemed a lot simpler to use! It was such a huge difference actually seeing paint on the walls, the house began to feel

6th July plastering complete!

I’m writing this very late, I keep forgetting to update the blog! On 6th July the plastering was finally complete! It was a long wait but the results were amazing, well worth getting it all done! It was now time to start thinking about the wall colour. After looking at lots of options against the

More progress!

So it’s been 3 weeks since I updated, the plaster upstairs is all dry but then there was a further delay getting the 30 bags of plaster needed to finish the rest of the house. That came into our plasterers hands on 3rd July, which was a relief! He had to drive about an hour

Plastering!

I’m so happy I could cry!!!! British Gypsum stopped production during lockdown so once restrictions were lifted for tradesmen there was a huge backlog, we were not expecting any plaster to be available until late June but our plasterer called us last night to let us know he had some ‘ could start today! Best

You learn something new every day!

So I recently discovered that the thing I always thought was a door frame isn’t actually a doorframe, it’s architrave?! Am i the only person that didn’t know this existed?! Basically skirting board for a door! We honestly had no idea that this was a thing, but when the plasterer came round to see how

Catching up!

It’s been ages since my last blog post, we had about 8 weeks where nothing at all could happen due to Covid-19 lockdown, so we didn’t really visit the house! The last thing that happened in March was that we removed the old polystyrene & floorboards downstairs. The good news is that work was able

On hold for now..

We found out recently that we needed to replace the floorboards and insulation throughout the whole of downstairs, so Mike has spent a lot of time removing all of the old floorboards and polystyrene. It’s looking much better than it was a couple of weeks ago! That’s ready now for the new insulation and floorboards

Kitchen ordered!

We ordered the kitchen this evening, very exciting! We’ve chosen to use a company called DIY kitchens, which is fantastic quality at such a good price!! They have a 10% price increase from tomorrow so it was a mad rush to get the plans fully finalised! We have also been looking at cabinet handles, we

The plumber fell through the ceiling!

Lots has been happening I’ve not had chance to update in ages so be prepared for a long post! We have decided to install spotlights throughout downstairs so have bought them, and the electrics are being sorted as we speak – we have worked out where to place them as below.. Just spaced evenly throughout,

Back to 1990!

When ripping up the carpet this week, Mike found laminate flooring underneath, then an interesting layer… they had used newspapers as underlay for the laminate floor! It was so interesting to read the papers & to see the adverts from 30 years ago.. wine was SO much cheaper! The house prices were listed in the