Monday, 11 January 2016

Great progress and more vintage finds.....

Progress continues to be good however we are now down to 3 habitable rooms and a bathroom and will have to get used to living with all our belongings piled up around us.  We have removed lots of old carpets and the underlay has proved to be especially useful under the butyl pond liner for our new wildlife pond.  The pond is now filling up gradually - and, with the amount of rain we have been having, it shouldn't take too long. Then all that is left to do is to trim the liner into shape, find a good solar pump and fountain kit, and landscape it in the Spring.





Back to the building work and the old redundant chimney and flue are being removed from the top down and this meant Henry's bedroom became uninhabitable with soot and a hole in the ceiling - after a couple of nights sleeping on the settee he will be glad to be going back to Uni tomorrow!



Henry's room with flue removal and new bedroom
 visible through the window
 (Henry's room becomes a storage room and corridor)



The wall through to the new part of the master bedroom has come down and the boarding is going onto the walls of the new extension.  Lots of insulation panels have been delivered and those will go on next. 

Below - View from master bedroom window




View through to master en-suite as boarding goes on and the rooms take shape. 


Demolition of the old kitchen continues  - we are keeping wood window sills and wood panels and details for re-use wherever we can.  The original bench seated breakfast area has been carefully removed - we want to re-use the bench seating in the new kitchen - but look at the heating pipes we found underneath - a heated breakfast area - luxury!!!

 
The old breakfast area


Heating pipes revealed under the seats!







View from what will be the location of the breakfast table through the new kitchen space. More of the old kitchen, and the big chimney breast, still to clear.






The two small bedrooms at the front of the house have been knocked together now and form one lovely light room. All th fittings from the built in wardrobes have been saved so that they can be re-used in our new dressing room.

 



Finally I have some more great vintage finds on Ebay too with the purchase of a walnut dressing table and stool - 1960s Gunther Hoffstead for Heals.  This was from sweet-vintage.com

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