Hello hello, How you all doing?
Its been a couple of days since the last post - keeping very busy this end. I expect you are all dying to see what happened after the fireplace went in - yes I know you all that well.
I shall hold you in suspense for no longer. The plaster board went on. Exciting stuff huh?
It was fab actually - finally got a sense of the space and light in the room.
We also got the lights and electrics done. Both were pretty quick processes really as we had a electrician in and my dad is a plasterer.
The ceiling was the biggest change from the very heavy dark joists. We chose recessed spot lights with halogen/led bulbs because we needed a lot of bulbs in that room and because the ceiling in there is low. We also opted for 4 wall up lighters. All our lights went on to dimmers which I am really pleased about as now it really gives a lot of options in terms of both energy use and of mood in the room. Each bay of the ceiling is on a different circuit so they are all individually controlled.
Financially by this point the work was taking its toll so we decided not go go for a luxury wall paint but to give it an all over coat with the Dulux Paint pod that we own in a simple white colour. We will re-paint later down the line.We had already decided that the ceiling should be the same colour as the walls to make the ceilings seem higher. In the end we went for Timeless white ( as we already had half a pod full from a previous job). It took an age painting it all even with the Paint pod. But the difference was enormous!
My dad did a fab job plastering the curve of the fireplace.
Oh and we put some curtains up too - as we took over doing all the work at this stage we were working most evenings. The pic above was taken at about midnight. For the curtains I headed over to Dunelm Mill and got some Hessian style natural curtains.
Starting to look room like isn't it? Next begins the saga of the floor - and boy was it a saga!
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