Day 5 of Paint, Paint and Paint!
It was decided that the pinky yellow colour was still too yellow when painted on the walls. More red colour was mixed in and bedroom 1 had another coat to…
Painting day 4
Today we completed the lounge (the pale green and peach colours). The ceiling seems to be holding the white better now that we have covered the watermarks with the oil…
Thumbs Up!
Today we had a visit from Building Control, to inspect our latest work including our temporary living quarters. We talked of many different aspect of the build and our inspector…
Painting Day 3
All the ceilings (lounge, bedroom 1 to 3 and hallway) were painted with white vinyl matt (another old tin on the self!). The batten and edges of the new plasterboard…
Day 2 of Painting
The visuals were mixing colours from all our old pots of emulsion paint. We got a large quantity of yellow, a little of pale blue and also a little of…
Corridor and Hall Painted
The whole length of the Sun Corridor and Entrance Hall has been painted a glorious white! We found several pots of old white emulsion and mixed the whole lot together.…
Smoothing Door holes
We smoothed off the door holes in and out of the three bedroom and the larger opening that is the lounge. The cut-outs are quite rough with sawn edges and…
Toilet Gains Extra features!
The toilet in the Garden Room now has a mirror (600mm high and 450mm wide) a flat plane of glass with no edging or bevel, just screwed up with four…
Garden Room (Kitchen) Shelves Up!
All the shelves are now on their brackets in all locations around the Garden Room! The brackets were nicely dry from the oven. Just a little touch up job here…
Garden room Shelves All Painted
We have completed the task of applying the full gloss coat to all 27 pieces of shelving for the Garden Room, acting as our temporary kitchen for the next two…