Hallway and Utility Room Flooring...

Probably the most unexciting photos of the whole blog... the hall and utility room screed!! We finally have a floor, yipee!!





After allowing the screed to dry sufficiently (1 day per mm!!), we were able to make a start on laying our flooring and started with a lovely plastic membrane followed by underlay..





Then the fun began.. not! Looks easy, but very tricky especially around the doors and stair bullnose... and especially with two perfectionists doing the job!



One of the perfectionists hard at work...



And here we have the finished product.. drum roll please... voila!!!! (excuse the phone quality pics!)

Back Bedroom...

Our first attempt at picking paint colours almost ended in tears...! Luckily we were happy with the finished results, phew!

More photos to follow of our first attempt at fitting skirting boards... and carpets... and our first hung curtains!!

Bathroom developments!

Getting started on the bathroom.. which was one of the worst rooms in the house!

Here we have the tiling taking shape... with a lot of patience from Dad with our uneven walls!

And finally the finished product!

And here's a quick recap of how it looked BEFORE!! ... YUK!

Spring 2009.. Getting green fingered in the garden!

Tidied up the garden a little and enjoyed seeing the beautiful flowers come through! Can just about see the fig tree from Nonno we planted at the bottom of the garden.. RIP Nonno.. xxx

Here's our baby fig tree... kept well watered over the summer.. hopefully next year we'll have some figs xx



Our tomato plants given to us by Lillo and Angela. They got quite bit and we managed to get a couple of tomatoes from them!



Paolo attacking the dreaded ivy!! Evil stuff...!!!

Fuscias in the front garden, my favourite..x

Next Step: Plumbing!

Downstairs...

These pipes which are in the porch travel up the wall to the small bedroom. we decided to route them here as it avoided pipes within the house itself. I didnt want to box off any corners in either the front room or kitchen. they will be covered with MDF and packed for insulation. fingers crossed it was the right idea!

Typical, the raiator had been on the wall a matter of minutes and was already used as a shelf!

The front room...

Paolo's handy work!! :)

Upstairs!!

This is the small bedroom where the pipes come up from the porch. This is one room i'm never sleeping after seeing a tarantula under the floor boards! ok, not a tarantula but it stared at me like i was dinner! that bits true!

Master Bedroom...

David and I have are just completing the 15mm pipes to the radiators. no sign of the spider! thats a good thing!

Who would have thought I would have come so long on the path of plumbing riteousness. from flooding the downstairs at the beginning to now fitting pipes. what a journey!

I'd like to say i was caught off guard but i heard the steps coming my way and knew it was picture time!

Bathroom...

I cant believe we now have a towel radiator! It took some ingenius work to get it on the wall it turned out well. to be fair it took longer to decide exactly where to put it! all i could hear was, "left a bit, no right a bit, now left a tiny bit"

The Final part of the plumbing!!

The genius work below was added by me. after watching David and great tuition I decided to have a go myself! These pipes were rather difficult as they needed to be bent in to shape. I shaped them two fold firstly, to the valve of the radiator and then creating a 90 degree bend under the floorboards. this was to minimise the number of joints needed.

Spare Bedroom...

I did this part and totally understand how careful you need to be to ensure the pipes dont cross over or touch!