Here's a picture of our house from the outside before we bought it - it looks roughly the same still, but the door has changed colour, the roof has been fixed, and the aerial (for picking up signals from Moscow, we presume) has been removed. 
Friday, November 03, 2006
Outside the house
Here's a picture of our house from the outside before we bought it - it looks roughly the same still, but the door has changed colour, the roof has been fixed, and the aerial (for picking up signals from Moscow, we presume) has been removed.
Shower in!
Showers are wonderful things, particularly with a warm towel to dry yourself with afterwards.... oh, the bliss! Only a few shelves to put up in the bathroom now, and to tile behind the basin, then it's done!
Friday, October 27, 2006
The new kitchen going in!
The New Kitchen going in - at least what we had of it! IKEA took over a month to get us all the bits and pieces - Next day delivery? Yeah....
Modification of kitchen cupboards
Here's Tim late at night chopping bits and pieces off cupborads to fit around pipes - We're very popular with the neighbours!
Preparing the surfaces
Mom does a good job at preparing surfaces! (and then a great job at painting over them!)
Mr. Simon the Ikea kitchen maker
Here's my brother Simon making some drawer units for us, in the garden. Very useful!
Washing up!
Of course we still washed our dishes - Well my lovely pregnant wife did, at least - in the old basin!
Haute-Cuisine!
Cooking builder style: Camping stove, wok, workmate, bacon and eggs with toast. A real hit!
New Kitchen Floor
Adventures with Laminate Flooring! this was quite fun, and not as hard as I thought - only advice, don't do this late at night - your brain goes fuzzy and you make more mistakes. (The only mistakes I made were for the last few planks! Very annoying!
Helpful Father
Dad came all the way from Cambridge one morning to help me clear the kitchen of units before having to return home - lovely floor!
Tile removal
So the walls come down, the toilet comes out, so do some of the units, and here's Lara removing the tiles...
Open plan kitchen - bathroom
They say open-plan living is fashionable. Not so sure about having no walls between the toilet and the kitchen sink though!
Mould, mould everywhere!
This shows the internal wall with lovely mould... knocking down a wall is great stress-relief!
Kitchen as was
This is the kitchen as it used to be. there were units all along both sides. the back part, through the arch was split into three areas with a toilet, basin and washing machine - not a good use of space at all!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
tiles in!
Here are the tiles in place! We've now grouted and put up the shower screen - at 1 am! crazy, but fun!
el-choppo!
Lara cutting tiles with a dodgy tile cutter we later bought a proper size one, and that worked much better!
Tiling late at night!
Here I am at night tiling - Lara was much better at cutting the tiles than me - but I could stick things to the wall!
Bath in place!
Here's the bath in - this was great as it meant we could wash again! (I admit - we were staying with our good friend Richard and Ruth while we had no running water...)
Bathroom Overhaul (2)
This is after we ripped out the shower and some of the floor... bath to go in this place
Bathroom Overhaul
Who wallpapers a ceiling above a shower? the answer - those who like mouldy showers! This had to go!
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