Flooring Day 3
Bedroom 1 was completed today and also bedroom 2! Just bedroom 3 to go! Then it’s carpets time!
Floor Laying Day 2
We completed the Lounge today with the two layers of the hardboard sheets being laid down. The second layer was glued down to minimise slippage. Bedroom 1 is now two…
The Final Painting Task is finally done!
The doorways in the corridor had their final white touch up done to create a nice and crisp edging around each door frame. We were talking today whether a little…
Flooring Surface is Laid!
The rooms in the temporary living quarters started having their final flooring laid down. A layer of 50mm polystyrene foam sheets, with two layers of 3.6mm hardboard on top. The…
Final Day of Painting (Day 6)
Bedroom 3 has all its four walls done in the pale purple colour. It turned out that only one coat was needed, apart from a little touch up on the…
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…
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.…