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.

Lets get started on the kitchen

Fridge in place, doors to put on under sink and washing machine and a whole lot of work to do next weekend, and that light has just got to go.

Things have been busy a round here. The snug (tv room) is more or less finished, so is the sitting room(photos in next post). Even the kitchen was started yesterday, after buying a new sink and washing machine* at Ikea...Yes, I have a washing machine after almost 7 months without and more trips to the laundrette. The stove arrives here next Saturday which will go just after the machine and then we'll put our butcher's block just after and a Ikea tall cupboard at the end.

1970's green kitchen, so so dirty

As for the splash-back I'm going to cut my old school blackboard in half (vertically) then place it against the whole length of the wall a part from behind the stove (inox panel here). Finally our buffet cupboard will be painting either aubergine or black and that will go where the butcher's block is now, leaving us lots of place for the table and chairs.

Before on this wall there was floor to ceiling green cupboard, you can see the dirty marks left behind. Buffet to be painted, I tried blazer but I won't be using this color on it.

I thought maybe I'll get a bookworm for my favorite cook books, just leaving me the job of finding which wall to put "Bliss" bought from Kidimo way back in December.

*when the laundry room is done, we'll put a dishwasher here

Corner of our soon to be finished sitting room

One week of work (all on my own) and the painting is almost finished. We painted the walls in Mizzle and after worrying about it being a little dark after the first coat of paint, (north facing window and it was cream before) it just became better and better with each coat of paint... five liters later. Lots of finishing touches to make and then I'll take a couple more photos