A Photoshoot.

It’s been a long time since I took some proper photographs of the house with my proper camera and lights etc.

As I had a bit of time to spare (yeah you read that right) I thought I’d take the opportunity to get a few photographs. It’s a bit odd really as obviously our lives for the past couple of years have been the house and you only realise that its not on this blog when you look through it. When you’ve spend a week fitting flooring and looking at flooring, and touching flooring and pretty much being flooring you just assume that the whole world knows about your flooring and the last thing you really fancy doing is taking pictures of the flooring.

So any way. Here’s some pictures.

First up is the dining room and living room with the Christmas decorations up. A few things to finish off in here; mainly curtains and pictures

This is just a quick shot of the kitchen so you can see how its progressing. I’ll do a proper shoot in here once we finally have our stools, bookshelf and some pictures.

Fancy flooring (Part Two)

This is the blog I’ve been looking forward to for MONTHS. And now it is here it is so lovely and satisfying that it was almost worth the wait (you’ll have to ask Ally if it was worth the effort as he did it.)

As you’ll have seen we had our herringbone floor delivered three weeks ago. Ally took some time off work and got to it, and I think he’s done a marvellous job! There were issues with the nail gun which meant every single board had to be nailed in by hand following the initial drive from the nail gun. It took a long time, and the angles were very hard to work out.

Here’s the dining room, mid-job.

Prepping, painting and fancy flooring (Part One)

We have had a mammoth three weeks in terms of work at the house so there are just too many photos to post in one single blog. This is your Part One. AND, progress has been so quick that many of these photos are already out of date, and most of them will be by the end of tomorrow when *drumroll please* we’ll get the carpet laid on the stairs and landing.

In preparation for that, last weekend Ally prepped the floors. As you may remember from last time we talked about prepping for carpets, this is both to prevent drafts and to extend the life of the carpet.