So what's next?

Just over 2 years since we moved in and the 'to-do' list now looks like this:

• 2 x internal doors to paint
• 1 x architrave set to paint and install
• <1m of skirting to fix
• loft hatch to install
• tidy up some radiator pipework

and, err, think that's it!  Must be deserving of a beer or three!

Oh, hang on.  Got a new garage door coming next month then I'm painting the outside according to Senior Management!  Then the garden needs sorting out, then the driveway, then she'll probably want to start decorating again...

Last room in the house (woo-hoo)...

March saw us on the final stretch by starting on the spare room.  The trusty wallpaper steamer got its last outing as we stripped the room of everything ready for Mack to come and skim the walls and ceiling, and fit new coving.

Yet again it was down to me to get the paint roller out!  We decided to have a bit of fun with colours in this room.

The LED light is from a superb lighting showroom not far from work, the Oxford Lighting Company.  Paul the plumber came back to fit the new radiator, the carpet guys did their stuff, IKEA supplied the day bed and we were done.

And the finished article.  Still need to get some pictures on the wall and tidy up the radiator pipes but we're more or less there.

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Long overdue update

Apologies for the long silence, been busy with one thing and another.  So, where were we?  The hallway had just been plastered at the end of November and it was down to me to paint the walls and ceiling, fit some cupboards, sort out skirting and architrave, and get some flooring down.

I've got no pictures of the painting cos, well, they'd be boring.  Just like watching paint dry in fact.  Suffice to say we wanted a blank canvas for reasons you'll see later so the walls and ceiling were painted a brilliant white, 8 coats in all!

For flooring we went with some large white tiles with a grey grout:

A new radiator was also installed as you can see.  We wanted some cupboards along the wall to hide the gas and leccy stuff which would mean some butchering of whatever we bought so IKEA was the first choice to go and see what we could find.  The Besta range fitted the bill and after some jiggery-pokery with a saw and lots of swearing trying to line the doors up we ended up with this:

Remember we wanted a blank canvas?  We had this idea of some large pieces of artwork to hang.  Senior Management got on the case and found Alce Harfield.  Fate intervened and she happened to be exhibiting at an art show in Reading so the credit card took a battering and hey presto, 2 original pieces:

So, apart from one set of architrave to fit and a couple of bits of skirting, and the abomination of a loft hatch, the hallway is complete.  The new loft hatch is planned, it's just up to me to sort it out!