More stripping

We spent today stripping the rest of the old wallpaper in the dining room, on our quest to finish the house. In the process, we've uncovered a hole near one of the radiators that we'll have to find a way to fill.

We've also been removing the old architrave around the doors and putting up new ones.

I think we're both starting to tire on the journey to the end, nearly there though.

A few odd jobs

Our month off from the house while our friends were here is over, back to the grind stone.

This week we've done a few odd jobs around the house. We've finished off the coving in the lounge, put the brass handle on the spare room door, fixed the ceiling on the bathroom and started stripping the rest of the wallpaper in the dining room.

More to come as we progress.

Spare bed

Also assembled an IKEA bed in the spare room for guests.

It's a day bed, so during the day you push the front part underneath the main section and you can use it as a bed/couch, or you can have it out like this as a double bed.

A good space saver, and there are three big drawers for storage underneath too.

Our bed!

Finally, after having it for nearly 10 months and having almost paid it off, and never having slept in it, we finally built our bed! We've been waiting for the upstairs to be finished so we can get the same run of carpet throughout and when that went in, we were able to do it. The bedding was bought ages ago soon and its the first time we've seen it out like this, colour co-ordinated with the rest of the room.



Feels like were on the home straight now :)

Carpet

All the hard work over the last few weeks has finally paid off and both of the upstairs rooms and the stairs are now finally carpeted.

It's quite strange to be sitting here at the top of the stairs with 75% of the house now done, knowing that the end of the renovations are not far away.

Wood!

We also got a metre cubes bag of seasoned wood delivered in preparation for winter fires with the wood burners.

Cupboard finished

The cupboard in the spare room is finished too. It's actually nicer than the one in our room, but much less hanging space as its just for guests.

Now that both the cupboard and shelves are done, there coving and beading to be finished in both the lounge and spare room to finish them both off.

The will be more updates next week when the carpet goes in.