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Our House. In the Middle of the Street
Monday, June 15th, 2015 10:38 amThe building work is done. The Gin Palace is (almost) back to normal – full normality will be resumed progressively over the next few days.
The bare brick around the living room, exposed by the damp work we had done some time (far too long) ago has been plastered and the artex above it has been skimmed over. The walls have been painted, the wood panelling re-stained (a much darker walnut colour) and the wall lights, switches and plugs all replaced. We also have new curtain rails in the living room.
Somewhat against my better judgement, we also have a cat flap, though as yet, no cat.
The builders finally finished around 6pm on Friday and I have to say, it looks great. We spent Saturday cleaning and putting the furniture back. That was a lot harder than we had anticipated, but largely accomplished, though we were completely knackered at the end of it. Furtle finished it off on Sunday morning while I was still out for the count, so I hung the pictures back on the walls by way of recompense.
We had intended to do some work on the patio and garden steps – replace some mortar between slabs here and there, and fix some loose steps, but that is a job for next Saturday. For now we are luxuriating in the fact we have our house back.
The bare brick around the living room, exposed by the damp work we had done some time (far too long) ago has been plastered and the artex above it has been skimmed over. The walls have been painted, the wood panelling re-stained (a much darker walnut colour) and the wall lights, switches and plugs all replaced. We also have new curtain rails in the living room.
Somewhat against my better judgement, we also have a cat flap, though as yet, no cat.
The builders finally finished around 6pm on Friday and I have to say, it looks great. We spent Saturday cleaning and putting the furniture back. That was a lot harder than we had anticipated, but largely accomplished, though we were completely knackered at the end of it. Furtle finished it off on Sunday morning while I was still out for the count, so I hung the pictures back on the walls by way of recompense.
We had intended to do some work on the patio and garden steps – replace some mortar between slabs here and there, and fix some loose steps, but that is a job for next Saturday. For now we are luxuriating in the fact we have our house back.