Day 367 - Awesome paint colour

I took this photo in an attempt to capture the wonder of the paint we finally chose. It may have taken no less than 34 sample pots (over 5 litres of paint) to find the right one - oddly the colour we chose was the only one I had bought 2 samples of - but we are so happy with how it turned out. The colour is modern, neutral but not bland and changes wonderfully with the light.

This picture is an attempt to show that - each of the three walls you can see (left, right and the sliver through into our bedroom) are the same colour but look pleasingly different.



Now, what to do with those 34 tester pots?! My gut feel is mix them all together in a big tin and paint Ern's kitchen with it!

Oh and notice the Day on the post title - we tipped over a year!!

Day 70 - I did it!

After Shaun's somewhat depressing suggestion that we replace the wall between my study and the boys room I spent last weekend tackling the somewhat daunting task of moving everything in my study away from the offending wall. This meant trying to fit it all onto the shelves on the other side.

And I did it!



Now of course you could argue I've just got too much stuff in there, and this doesn't include all the stuff that moved with me to my temporary home at Davids, but I'm very proud that it all fitted!

It was a bit like building a dry stone wall, you had to find the right sized slot for the box you were holding!



This is the tidiest my desk has ever been!



And then on Monday the desk came down and the chests of drawers got moved over and it all got covered in black plastic which will hopefully protect it when they knock the wall down.

Day 57 - The walls go up ..

but lots of other things come down or out...


The side walls get higher


My trusty boiler, which I think was original to the house (c1980) has come out.

Every time the plumber serviced it he'd tell me "It won't last much longer", but thankfully it lasted as long as it need to and I think 29 years is pretty good for a boiler.

We'll be getting a nice new big boiler and a pressurised water system and maybe a solar water system - more on those later.


The open plan ensuite toilet has gone


As has the brick/concrete 'feature' fireplace - farewell...

Upstairs..

The bath has gone


And the basin & the radiator

The toilet remains, but has attractive black markings we think from the sludge in the radiator.

Oh, and Jordan has a Brazilian it seems...

Day 51 - I wanna be tall, tall, tall, as big as a wall, wall, wall

We have back walls



and a rather small looking back window





and full side walls. Which are obviously taller than me already ;-)

Day 34 - Weekend update

Little bit of progress this week on the side walls.






This will be the utility room outside door


Downstairs toilet window


View of the internal walls from the back

We're still waiting for the workaround design from the Structural Engineer - Ern is going to give him a call on Monday as it's been two and half weeks now.

We also spoke to our neighbour, Joe, about getting his agreement for the work. Looks like he's going to be fine about it which is good - we must be due some good news!

Day 19 - Cavity wall insulation

Today's visible change is insulation between the outer wall and the breeze blocks

Day 11 - More walls

Day 10 - Walls!

The first bricks have gone up - exciting!


Looking down the side of the house




Thankfully the bricks seem to match the existing house pretty well at this point.




And here's the very long and deep soakaway