Studio Before

Above our covered carport/garage we have a empty room, a room which will one day become a studio. We just have to figure out how to do it, what sort of stairs would work well and where to put them. Balcony plus stairs or not? Or knock through Oliver's bedroom to connect this room to the house?

Yes, he's up some ladders again, but I'm holding them firm.
This room is at least 36m2 big, it has a south facing window (street side) and an old wooden door (garden side). The wooden floor is in good condition

And the roof timbers look good.

Full of cobwebs though, and one old Tam Tam.

Lots of ideas to ponder over.

Front room(sitting room) before and after

Yet another sporadic post, because I won't have time after (landing to do).

We bought the bookcase off Mr H, it's really good quality and cost a fortune when he bought it in the 70's and we really needed space for books. As you can see the walls are extremely dirty, yet again it took two of us a couple of days just to clean behind the bookcase and the wall on the photo.

This is the other side of the room, with the other chair from the thrift shop which probably won't stay here for long cause Gaby wants it for her bedroom. The table was Mr H's, we bought it, however it takes up too much space and I'm looking for a round table to take its place. The children do artwork here.

This cupboard (Ikea) holds all art equipment and sewing machine et cetera. Voila, now you are up to date with the goings on here, now I have to get on with this.

First floor landing really for a final washing down and scrap before priming.

snug before and after...Sporadic Monday Blogging

Still need a new low table and curtains, but for now here's a part of the snug(tv area) before painting it Mizzle

The walls were really dirty and it took me 3 days to clean them before painting.

And after it looks like this (think we should look for a radiator shelf, perhaps). Considering the window leading out of this room on to the garden is north facing, we get really a lot of light here now.

We found two chairs yesterday in our favourite thrift store, one is here on the photo with printed fabric, I'm not sure if it will stay here permanently, we'll see

7 hours to transform this...! Before

I took this shot a couple of minutes ago, yes, what a mess. I promise, it isn't staged to make it worse, it really is a mess. This is our 2nd floor landing which leads to Gaby's, Alexis' and MK's bedrooms. The idea is to finish this room today (a little more stripping, painting of ceiling, walls and woodwork and varnishing floor). As I am an eternal optimist I am hoping to finish it around 4ish, or at least before 2011 knocks at our door...Yikes, better get started.

Oh yes, this space will be home to their shared computer, a present this year.

Update 18h30 Have I finished? No way, just painted ceiling and changed my mind about the dominant colour "orange" which just doesn't go, so the choice is between bright yellow or red bus red. But nows time to chill out at home, with those I love, and we are eating raclette...yummy