Well, I have got  new little camera, nothing as nice as the broken one, but at least it actually does what it says on the tin!, shame that there is not much to photograph!!!!!!,

.......just a whole load of plumbing pipes EVERYWHERE!!!, - Plumbing has started in earnest and to the untrained eye there isn't an awful lot to see, it does look like hard work though lots of drilling massive holes through the joists above your head and then wrestling with a reel of pipe.

I have had to order the paint for the main bathroom (Brighton) and our ensuite (Pale China blue), as the the taps etc go through tiles so you need to tile first and therefore you need to paint first and because of the design of the towel rads we have to lay the floors as well so those two rooms will look very different soon!

whilst I got the paint I snuck a few rolls of wall paper in the virtual shopping trolley as well, I have been busy and choosen most of what we need for decorating now, mostly the interior will be pure brilliant white, but I couldn't resist "William", "Cath" and "Orla" when it came to a few rolls of wallpaper! Pete has to dash down to homebase tomorrow as they have some great deals on paint this weekend, so I need to do the shopping list tonight, is it really wrong to choose a paint colour for the No toy lounge because it has a cool name ?! (Dance Hall), I will also be adding some magnetic blackboard paint to the list for the kitchen,- hope that it is successful.

Yuri Geller, Pete is now bending guttering as well as plaster board!, he did a fab job of the guttering on the curved porch, it cost about £20 as well instead of way over £1000 that we were quoted to have a piece of curved guttering made, now we should be able to get rid of the scaffolding and the annoying scaffolders!

We have got the wood for the underside of the veranda roof ,so we can start to stain it (white), and also the ensuite bathroom floorboards, who knows what colour they will be stained I really hate choosing stain varnish oil for wood!!!!

.... and without wishing to sound boring everythime I go into the house and see the staircase I am blown away.......
.................we actually still can't latch onto the concept that we will actually one day move into the house, everyone is finding caravan living tiresome at the moment ... come on Spring get Sprung!

GOING UP

HOT WATER TANK IT CAME WITH LOTS OF HOLES BUT NO DIAGRAM AS FOR WHAT THEY WERE ALL FOR, THEY HAVE NOW KINDLY PROVIDED ONE

I MIGHT HAVE A CAMERA BUT I CAN'T GET THE PHOTOS IN A SENSIBLE ORDER

FROM THE LANDING LOOKING DOWN

THE AIRING CUBOARD PAINTED BY ME JUDE AND PETE WITH THE SUPER HIGH SKIRTING BOARD!

ON THE LANDING LOOKING TOWARDS THE BACK GARDEN

FINNS BEDROOM

BOYS BATHROOM WITH BLACK BATH, DRAUGHT BOARD FLOOR TILES, TOILET AND URINAL!!!

LEIGH -WE LOVE YOUR CURVES THANKS!!!!!!
JUDES ROOM

OUR ENSUITE

REUBENS ROOM

LANDING LOOKING TOWARDS THE GUEST BED

PIPE WORK THAT WILL RUN ACROSS THE KITCHEN FLOOR

THE CHARNWOOD THAT PETE IS SPRAYING CREAM!

CURVED GUTTERING!

 

OH ORLA!, YOU SAW ME COMING DIDN'T YOU!!!!!!!

WE'RE PLASTERED!

The plasterers left last week they were here about a 9 days and they did the whole of upstairs and some of the hallway, they did a nice job and the curved walls look really great.

We have been to pick up the Chesny it was in a really nice place, and Pete has started to spray the charnwood stove and that is going well. He has also concreted the floor in the fireplace in the family room, and we need a trip out to a salvage yard for the stone slabs thet we want for the finished fire place.

WOW the stairs are looking good, after much discussion and a frantic search for a magazine picture we now have the start of a very modern curved staircase, the plaster board wasn't quite as accomodatindg as the plasterboard uptairs on the wardrobes, about 5 sheets snapped in half, whist trying to curve them!

The fabric cables have now been sent back from |Sweeden - earthed this time, hooray!

|Framefast are coming on tuesday to fix the bi fold doors, they were also coming last Thursday and then cancelled, so we shall wait and see.

The scaffolders have been round giving us grief, Pete has started to take some of the scaffolding down and it should all be down by the end of the week, as he has now finished the repair work to all of the upstairs windows.

UROLOGY- after the stairs are finished they are going to start on the plumbing, hence last weekend we took advantage on  some Tradepoint and Wickes offers and got most of the bathroom tiles, which the kids loved!!!!-not

I am trying to encourage Pete to start building the verhandah now the weather seems to be improving, - now it is officially spring we will never do winter again in this caravan- now that feels good!!!!!!