Author: K

• Kitchen delivered

  Shout out to the lovely kitchen delivery guy Alex! I was disappointed when he told me he wasn’t the fitter (he starts tomorrow), but it was exciting to see it all laid out ready. The blue cupboards look rather nice against the tiles ?? There are two of these worktops! In other news, I managed…

• Kitchen plastered

  This is the undercoat that I did yesterday. It was easier than I thought to put on, owing to its slight grittiness. Trowel marks weren’t much of a problem. It was annoying to work around the wires and holes though, I made much more of a mess than I would have otherwise. I didn’t bother…

• Building a banister? 😬💪

  

  Bought the pieces to replace the landing banister. Wouldn’t have taken the old one down in the first place so soon but we needed it down to put up the walls on the landing. I can’t guess how much research I’ve done on how to put up these things, especially the newel posts. I’d decided…

• Tiles 😍

  Picked up the kitchen floor tiles today, we love them! There are three boxes that haven’t arrived yet, crossing our fingers that they’ll be ready by the time the tiler needs them. He’s due to do it in a week and the tile company said a week 😬 Each box appears to be different shades…

• Stove has been taken out!

  

  Plumber pulled the stove out! I couldn’t even lift a corner of it, I don’t know how he managed to get it outside! I’ll pull this wall down to get at the pipes. It’s a false wall made of plasterboard so I imagine it’s hiding the pipes going up to the water tank upstairs. We’ll…