Stairs!

And then there were stairs. Excellent!

Cutting out the void

In preparation for the stairs, which with luck will be in next week, we now have a BIG hole in the roof/floor.

Garden, what garden?

Somewhere underneath this construction site lies my front garden. Oh well, it needed a make over anyway!

Ah, Houston, we have a problem!

Next window out was the kitchen, and all was going well until.....

Well, you tell me, does this window look like it fits this hole.


Answer - Ah, no! Back to tape measure 101 for someone.

Out with the old, and in with the new!

With the upstairs starting to look the goods it's time for some more serious work on the downstairs. First to go are the old timber windows. Probably worth a fortune now if you were to buy them new but they're getting old and they really won't go with the new look, so out they go....

As you can see from these pictures the new front lounge room window will be slightly small than the old. It's necessary for two reasons:

1. The new stair case needs to fit in on the wall behind the window, and

2. The new size window will match the size of the window on the other side of the front wall and make the place a little more symmetrical.

Upstairs Render - Coat Two

After a second coat of render the top of the house is starting to look good. Oh, and just in case you were wondering, like the nosy dog walker who went past this morning and felt she had to comment, yes the bottom half will be rendered as well.

Back Room Flooring - The Old Floor

I touched on this in an earlier post but thought it was worth further mention. The new back room/dinning room and kitchen are now all effectively one room. It's a great space but has produced somewhat of a 'messy' flooring situation. As shown above the three different floors coming together just doesn't look right.

To further complicate things the floor in Caitlin's old room is at a slightly different height to the floor in the kitchen. It was never a problem, or even noticeable when they were separate rooms, but now they are joined together is a little more problematic. In order to even things out before the new hardwood floor goes down over the top the boys from Nelson Constructions aka the builders cut out and replaced a whole section of floor. So now there are four floors all joining together.

Upstairs Render - Coat One