Something I’ve been SO excited to put together, is my dressing room! Who wouldn’t?! And I decided to go with the Ikea PAX system. If you’re not familiar with this, it is a modular system, with lots of different internal options, and can be designed to suit your requirements. It can be a lot ofContinue reading “Ikea hack! The PAX system…”
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Week 86 – Second fix almost complete plus Crittall samples!
Wow, another milestone…we have light upstairs! And Eddie, the electrician, is almost done! Maybe just a few more days than we are good to go. And the cinema room really is taking shape; these small diamond spotlights are SO twinkly!! And the lightsaber wall lights finish it off a treat! Great advice from Claire atContinue reading “Week 86 – Second fix almost complete plus Crittall samples!”
Weeks 75 and 76 – Lots of flooring plus more painting and the first of the lights!
Lots more painting this last couple of weeks! We are almost there now, I’m so over painting ha! It’s just so messy, I can’t wait to have a good old sweep up and a tidy..and put away the paint brushes…and the sprayer! We actually did the walls of my dressing room and our bedroom withContinue reading “Weeks 75 and 76 – Lots of flooring plus more painting and the first of the lights!”
Week 61 – Site Progress! First fix done plus twinkly lights…
Another milestone this week, the first fix electrics are complete and we can now focus on insulation soon, hopefully week 62! Building control paid site a visit on Wednesday and they are happy with everything so we are good to go when it comes to covering the walls and floors And our very pretty twinklyContinue reading “Week 61 – Site Progress! First fix done plus twinkly lights…”
Week 58 – Site Progress! Plus “fiddly” lights and brick slips..
Lots going on this week! Eddie the electrician has been on site for most of it, finishing off the upstairs wiring and thermostats. The cinema room certainly took some doing…as you can see… Lots of twinkly LEDs to go in here, and doing this now will make the second fix much easier! And next weekContinue reading “Week 58 – Site Progress! Plus “fiddly” lights and brick slips..”
Week 41 – Site Progress! Plus more light deliveries and front door changes
Another week has gone by and saw the roof trusses go up ready for the porch tiles Andy set up the scaffolding ready…luckily we didn’t have to wait for the scaffolders to do this ha ha! Thankfully the salt has started to wash off the bricks..phew! It looks here as though they’ve been spray paintedContinue reading “Week 41 – Site Progress! Plus more light deliveries and front door changes”
Kitchen island light?
If you have read some of our previous posts, you will know that we decided to go with a lighting designer…check it out here And one of the suggestions was to go with something quite simple above the kitchen island…side note in light of this (excuse the pun!) we are going a little crazy aboveContinue reading “Kitchen island light?”
The light design plans are good to go!
It is hard to believe that we are edging ever closer to the interiors but we are! Eek. So exciting. The glass has been ordered now which should hopefully be here in April, and then the first fix won’t be too far away… And so, as I mentioned in a previous post, we have decidedContinue reading “The light design plans are good to go!”
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