Riverview

This is how it looked like before we brought everything in. We’ve finally managed to sand and oil the floor downstairs in the evenings after work. It was hard work as we also had to pack and prepare the boxes to be ready for the moving. But it was worthwhile I think. We will paint the rooms later on.

We’ve started by moving stuff upstairs while the builders finish off downstairs, and also to give us time to sand and oil the downstairs floor.

And this is our first fire in the new stove :

I’m actually enjoying comparing the old photos with the new ones… The kitchen also got “revamped”. It’s even nicer now with our nice sink unit.

Before:

And after (it has already changed, but I haven’t had time to take some new photos):

Now it’s actually fully tiled. Check the utility room (used to be the bathroom and used to be black and pink !):

Oops, this is a while since I last posted something here… Well, here is one example of what has kept us busy lately : sanding and painting the bedrooms. I tell you what : I’ll never sand again ! Ever ! But I have to say, the result makes it worthwhile. Let’s see how it looked like

Before :

and after :

And the other bedroom (already baptised the “yellow room”):

The hot water tank was finally moved into it’s purpose built cupboard. It’s a bit of a beast (300 litres) and along with all the associated pressure vessels makes that cupboard a little cramped.

The system has 4 sq metres of flat panel collectors pointed south. It’s from Velux and has an unvented tank. It’s also got an extra pump in there to heat a radiator in the bathroom.

The kitchen floor is looking pretty nice. We were debating between quarry tiles and slate, but ended up with slate. So far we’re pleased….. The picture is a few days old, as the walls are also tiled now.

The chimney breast in the main bedroom has been repointed in lime mortar and cleaned with water, a brush and elbow grease. It has come up lovely!

Spent the last few days sanding the floor. This is seriously hard work. So much so that I’ve not even taken a single picture to put here. How sad is that? Anyway the floors will look good. I now have to get the floors slik smooth, get a coat of oil on, and then cover in hardboard so the builders do not trampel all over them. Oh and wire my office up too!

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Our Japanese style bath was fitted last week. This is an Omnitub which we saw at the Grand designs show. It’s so deep that we’ve had to add a step on the left side.

It will eventually be tiled as the rest of the bathroom will be.