Hot water and Electricity. How civilised.

The new water heater is in. And working. A minor miracle. The bathroom has tiling but we were a mere 5 tiles short of finishing. No matter, showers can now happen. Here's some photographic evidence....

Fitting the shower screen.

The new water heater and fuse board.

The first new work in the living room. The wall has been plaster boarded and the new fireplace

 is in.

The shower works. Exciting stuff so far.

The nearly new shopping centre in the city.

The first look at the new wider view aftter the partition wall was taken down.

The view from over the road. Ours is the top dormer window to the right of the blackened house.

Removing the Wall

We have removed the relatively new partition wall between the kitchen and the living area. We have also removed the doors to both these rooms and opened up the wall between the hall and the kitchen. The view is amazing and both rooms are much brighter and lighter. It's a bit of a mess at the moment, lots of tidying up to do!

BEFORE:

Wall between the kitchen and the living room

Doorway to kitchen

View from the Hall

View from the Hall

AFTER:

View from the top of the stairs

View from the Living Room

View from the kitchen

View from the kitchen

The view out of the windows

More Bedroom Pictures

Sorry about the quality of these, I took them on my phone so they are a bit fuzzy.

Living Room Fireplace

Yesterday we removed the block work around the old fireplace ready to put the new one in. It turned out to be a huge hole full of a lot of rubble!

Disposing of some of the rubble.....

New Fireplace

The Bedroom Move

This weekend (5th May) we have moved our bedroom from the living room into the newly painted bedroom. Over 2 weekend we have managed to fill nearly all the holes in the walls and ceilings and do a couple of coats of paint and some lining paper. Dave has also started work on a built in wardrobe next to the fireplace. On Saturday we moved all of our things out of the living room so we could start work in there.

Before

New Fireplace In

Wall Plasterboarded and skirting on

Built in wardrobe and new fireplace wall

Filling Holes in the Ceiling

Wallpapering the really bad walls

New White Walls

Sunny Weekend Walk

When we had a lovely sunny weekend we decided to take some time off and go walking along the canal.

Bathroom: Stage 2

After lots of weeks of  plumbing and boring stuff we finally have a bath (which has to be filled with buckets but is still a big improvement) and a toilet which flushes!

New Bath

New toilet