Second post this weekend and back on the house project. After a pretty quiet week, the week just gone has been anything but. The biggest change has been the second fix of electrics downstairs. So we now have lights downstairs and working electrical sockets. No more extension cables or temporary lights hanging from any convenient surface. And it makes such a difference.
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- Lights at the front door
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- View when I get home from work
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- View from the back garden – all lit up
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- Dining room pendants
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- Downlighters will be pushed in this week now we have painted the surroundings
The tiling is all done in the new bathroom, just waiting for the grouting to be finished before the shower and the heated towel rail are plumbed in. But we are really really pleased with how the wall and floor tiles look.
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- Tiling all done
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- View back to the door
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- Just waiting for the shower once the grouting is done
And Maddie and I have been able to do something . So we’ve spent this weekend painting. Partly so that all of the downlights can be finished off, partly in advance of the new staircase going in, which we hope will happen this week, but also so that we can achieve something ourselves in our new home. At the moment we are painting everything white – ultimately we’ll be adding some colour, but until the house has finished and we have lived with it for a while we aren’t going to know what colours will work where.
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- Top of the stairs – hoping to avoid splashing paint on the new staircase when its in
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- View up the stairs – its white!
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- First coat in the lounge
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- I think I prefer it to the pink…
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- Looking back in from the outside
And as you can see, we’ve had the bifold doors open today. Its hot and smelly work painting. The cats however seem a bit confused as to whether they can use the big 5 metre hole in the wall to come in and out rather than the cat flap. Bless.
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- Outside and inside…
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- View back with the doors open
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- “Do they know the glass has gone?”
