And Finally....

....we're in!!!!

After Fi spent a large proportion of the week scrubbing floors (helped by her mum) we finished off on Saturday. Built the shelves for the larder and spent the day finding new homes for the contents of our kitchen.

Today, the utility room window and the front door got their first coats of gloss.

Its so nice to have a proper kitchen again!!!





And just to prove it wasn't just Fi cleaning the floor:



The "new" plumber is here on tuesday to fit the toilet and sink, then thats it for tradesmen.
Lick of gloss on the internal doors and one more coat outside (next time the weather's good on a weekend) and we're just about done.

And relax.....

Shiny shiny

Its been a while, but once again, we're nearly there....

Paid off the builder, so he's gone now.

Tilers have been and put up our shiny wall tiles. It needs grouting, but it should look something like this when its done:





I made the most of a dry saturday and got 2 coats of undercoat on all the exterior woodwork, so just need a dry sunny day to finish it. Hmmm, could be waiting a while...

Plumber comes next tuesday to fit the toilet and sink in the downstairs loo. And then we're done!!!!!!!

Looking all-white

Painting has happened!
Not much, but the utilty room, cloakroom and "lobby" (architect's naming convention) now have their walls and ceilings painted in glorious white eggshell paint.

Joiners were here today tidying up the skirting boards, which they really should have done properly the first time. Oh well, not much more to go now...

For now, how'd you like the bike shed? :-)

Looking in:



And looking back out:

Kitchen

Go on then, this is what it looked like, just before Christmas:





We were very fortunate to have an army of Christmas Cleaning fairies descend on Hexham, so we're now able to (and have) start painting. Utility Room first, while we wait for the builders to finish off all the little snags we keep finding...