House decorating photo stream
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.jpg','The stinky manky old carpet');)
.jpg','Removing old paper and old underlay');)
.jpg','Ok, so I look happy because I have only just started');)
.jpg','The laminate flooring going down');)
.jpg','The laminate flooring is down!');)
.jpg','The living room.... Cream!');)
.jpg','More yukky cream carpets! At least the hallway looks nice.');)
.jpg','Yanking out the old carpet is fun!');)
.jpg','Oh that carpet was so heeeeaaavey!');)
.jpg','Nasty paper covering on floors');)
.jpg','I cannot believe I had to remove all of this nasty paper');)
.jpg','It is amazing the time capsule under your carpet!');)
.jpg','This is after about 8 hours of hard labour');)
.jpg','Thats quite artistic I thought! Painful to make, but looks nice.');)
.jpg','Nearly there and almost worn out. Muscles I never thought I had!');)
.jpg','Knackered, after 20 hours of hard graft, I made it');)
.jpg','This is the impression made by an industrial sander after one pass! Oh my life');)
.jpg','About 10 passes later, it looks good.');)
.jpg','The varnish I used had a deep yellow stain in it.');)
.jpg','Now that was really worth it');)
.jpg','Becs enjoyed painting the skirting boards.');)
.jpg','Tadda, Becs masterwork');)
.jpg','Our hideous fake fire');)
.jpg','The marble stone with plastercrete fireplace surround. Had to go');)
.jpg','Danny honing his builders skills, knocking out the hole to fit blocks');)
.jpg','Good bit of handywork that I thought!');)
.jpg','Nice plastering, even if I do say so myself.');)
.jpg','Becs is very useful with a paintbrush');)
.jpg','Im not bad with a roller');)
.jpg','B & Q do a nice reconstituted stone hearth');)
.jpg','New stove in place, so homely if not a bit bare.');)
.jpg','Were living in it now. Phew... whats next?');)
.jpg','Thats me planing and thicknessing the vertical pieces of the fireplace.');)
.jpg','The vertical sections are all glued up and cut to size.');)
.jpg','20 secs later, it dropped on floor and smashed middle piece. Doh!');)
.jpg','The new fireplace in place!');)
.jpg','Its a beauty');)
.jpg','The new paint stirring beast...');)
.jpg','Stir that paint boy');)
.jpg','Our stairway with old cream yucky carpet');)
.jpg','Oh yes, you guessed it, weve pulled it all up!');)
.jpg','The hall way, finished and in light green paint!');)
House renovation!
The hallway is almost done!
Sunday 18th Feb, 2007
Having finally finished the lounge. we've now moved onto the hallway. The floor and skirting boards we're already finished and it was only the walls left to paint. They are now painted light green and look very nice. We decided though that with the hall way looking so nice, the old yucky carpet had to go! So we've pulled it up and are going to scrap and sand back to wood like the lounge! You can see what it looks like by clicking here.
Hard graft!
Sunday 17th Dec, 2006
We're in and well ahead of budget. Dan's just got to make the fireplace now and then finish of the skirting boards.
The floor is almost done!
Saturday 25th Nov, 2006
Here you can see all of the hard graft we have put in so far to get our new front room and hall way looking much better.
We have still got to make a fire place, fit skirting boarding, fit a hearth and paint the radiator so not much then!
We will hopefully be in by christmas so please keep an eye out for our newest developments!