5 October 2014

Picture update!  (Finally.)

Okay, so the building work is just a series of minor confusions and emergencies, each of which we are dealing with as we go.  Having said that, the work is visibly taking strides forward this last week - even to the point where we could start painting in the bathroom!

But here's one of the problems we encountered last week:

*wah wah wah waaaah* (descending minor 2nds)  Smashed toilet pan!  Let this be a lesson all you DIY novices - always check the return policy online before you buy!  We weren't allowed to send this back because we didn't notify them within 48 hours.  (Victorian Plumbing, if anyone is interested - don't use them!  Extremely slow customer service and snobby!)  So I found another toilet and had that sent 'post haste' (to use a Eugene-ism).

Interlude:  We did this last weekend -

Round to the swan pond on the other side of Holyrood Park.  I had had to be at a school function in the morning and we took a little picnic to the pond afterwards.  SO many pigeons as well (as usual) and Felicity was so excited.

OK, back to the house.  Have I posted pictures of the stairs?  If not, voila!  The stairs.

So, this should have been a window between the rafters, but there wasn't room for one, so they installed what's called a 'sun tunnel' instead.  Not the prettiest thing, but we'll take some natural light over no natural light any day!  And I think we'll be disguising the whole modern 'porthole' look when we find the right piece of stained glass to fit over it.

Looking up to the sun tunnel.

Plaster in the hall!  Looking down the hall from the master bedroom to the top of the stairs.

OK, so they were going to poke the sink into this bathroom canyon crevice, but we got them to change that!  The towel rail will be in the crevice instead - this is also where my bathroom cabinet was supposed to fit!

Decadent bay windowed bathroom!  (But it was the best way to get the head height to open out the room.)

You can almost see here the diagonal-crevice they closed off.  We asked them to bring the toilet into the room as opposed to being poked under the eaves!

This is going to be F's room.  Again, windows and plaster help flesh out the idea!

This is the cabinet in the landing that was made when the toilet got moved forward.  Yey for storage space!

This is looking into the master bedroom - the little room behind will be a dressing/painting/sewing/storage room.

The other side of the master bedroom. - can't wait to paint this thing!

The dressing/sewing/attic/painting room - we got them to put in a window here as well!  Woohoo!

End of chapter 1 - chapter 2 forthcoming...