kitchen idea 1 (of what will be several hundred I am sure!)

House update

November marked our first year in the house! We have painted 11 times, fixed the heater twice, two plumbing jobs and numerous small projects that without my dads help would still be on my to do list.


I am in a rush (what a surprise these days!) but I have been meaning to post these for ages. So they are mostly unlabed and just stuck in. I will try to update better soon.

Living Room

Front Hall

Studio

Spare Room

No longer pink!!!!!!

Close up of fabric.

Kitchen

Dining Room

Dining room- we lucked out and when my grandma moved we got her dining room set. The two hutches, table and chairs. Our dining room may very well be the best room int he house!

(this colour is way off, the next one is more accurate)

Declans room

Bathroom - new

Well it is now November and our bathromm is halfway complete. It has been a long slow proces but we are working our way around other things. The bathtub and tiling is done, the floor is done and we are about to put the sink and toilet in and then finish the little tings like the paint behind the toilet and the floor.

Destructing the main vanity and sink.

Finished floor and wall (the white chunks are where we have to pull the wall apart to support the new sink)

Tilework in the tub. All dave's design.

Bathroom

The bathroom has always been at the top of our must renovate list. We were hoping to hold off until the end of the year however some leaking into the downstairs bathroom prompted us to reconsider. Then the bathtub stopped draining (even with plunging and several days of draino) so the bathroom has been moved up to 'must be done NOW status. Yeah, just in time for summer! As of today the walls are gone and the bathtub is ready to be cut out. (yup you read that right. Due to a radiator that I suspect was put in after the tub and the old tub being cast iron, there is no way to get the tub out other than cutting). We are hoping to get the tub installed and the walls retiled by the end of June (especially since we are sithout a shower/tub until then, good thing I was a recer!). Then by the end of August we will fix the walls, put in new lights, replace the floor, sink and toilet. Luckily a friend was able to get us a deal on a new toilet and sink which are sitting in our garage right now. We are simply replacing things and not moving any pipes so we are hoping that with a lot of help from family and books we can do most of this ourselves. Thankfully when we pulled the walls out, there apears to be no major water damage (the leaking into the downstairs went into the metal laundry shoot - talk about lucky) What follows is a mass of pictures in different stages of destruction. I can't be bothered to put them in order so you get to figure that out for yourself. I will try to update as we get stuff done.

New pictures

Just some random pictures from around the house.

Looking into the dining room. (check out the amazing curtains that mom bought for us - and hemmed).

Our poor apple tree after the much needed pruning.

We had a lot of blossoms so I am hoping we get some fruit.

From across the street. The plan is to take out the big ceder next year. It is too big to be trimmed and it blocks the paths too much. (you can see our pram by the porch! I tell people to use it to find our house!)