Stephanies House Makeover.....cont...

My oh my, doing an old house up is tough eh, after all the shows you watch on TV don't believe for one second its a breeze its not.

Anyway we have done the lounge and we have created an office as seen in a previous post now the kitchen and hall way, for the record the best way to show this is to do before and after pics so here does, oh its not finished yet by any means but this will be a good record for us to remember the pain by....

Boiler before (now Combi in bedroom) £2400 full cost.

before -



After -



Essentially we have had to strip back the whole kitchen, strip off the tiles and remove the dark blue wall paper, re locate the boiler in the upstairs bedroom (changed to a combi), stud wall the piped areas, remove the mains around the corner of the wall and re move the water meter outside the property, all at cost, but these changes were required to bring the house up to standard as she would have never been able to sell or rent the property as it was. There has been an injection of cash from family for her otherwise she would have not afforded some of the finer details and she would have had to fully finance the kitchen £7000 has been lent to assist.

In a sense it is the first ever house make over me and Stephanie have ever done and as the completion of the hall and kitchen approaches (20th Jan 2009) we are delighted with the results, and it has been a stress full experience but we have learned so much along the way.

Here is the colour of th wall paper and the wall that we removed, before ...



And now after we have plastered and removed the wall and the tiles...that made me sick.



The sink unit area, that was put when the house was built!!! has been removed and the mains have been placed on the back wall to accomidate the new sink location...what a mess.



And now after -



So the kitchens been plastered with 12mm boards to cover the damaged walls and skimmed cost £600 for cash, the plasterer also did some other areas around the stairs and two seperate walls.

The walls and roof have been painted and now for the floor tiles which are grey slate, which again we ahve never done in our lives but were going to give it a bash as well its cheaper. The kicthen is due to arrive on the 10th of January and be fitted week comencingthe 12th of Jan, so we need to have the complete floor ready by then...fo a novice no easy task.

Kitchen plastered and painted - Some pics......



Choosing the backwall colours? tough one....she picked it is she sure?!!!







And now the tiling has started, we have no experience of this so er here goes....the slate is going down..









So tired and I have only done the first third of the area needed to be covered. anyway looks good for my first attempt.

carrying on tomorrow....we need a kitchen so badley now doing plates and stuff in the bathroom sink loses its appeal after a while.

Laterz.