Revamping the Hallway

On a Budget!

It seemed a shame to have half of the house looking so lovely and the rest tired and shabby. So I am gradually working my way around with a paintbrush smartening up the other rooms.

We had continued the grey flagstone floor tiles through from the new kitchen into the entrance hall, but with the creation of a new door and the ripping out of the old floor we were left with this.

I got a good 3 for 2 deal on some Dulux Nutmeg White paint which is a gorgeous chalky white and will last for upstairs as well. The woodwork is Trade Satinwood and the furniture is recycled from other rooms. It looks a touch pink in some lights and a touch grey in others! I love the colour and feel it is very Farrow and Ball like without the price. Sometimes shopping around pays off with paint colours, sometimes it doesn't! It is a really hard one to get right. I must admit to having a rather large basket of samples.

I plan to make a feature gallery wall of photos and pictures on the stairs side and I have some finishing touches like a back to the letterbox to fix yet. It seems a never ending job this house at the moment.  I have now moved on to painting my eldest sons room who has ordered grey and lime green stripes . 

Yes. 

Watch this space.

The Big Reveal

At Last!

Ok so we haven't finished the whole project, but lets face it , this was always mainly about the kitchen for me anyway!

So, here we have it ( minus curtains, pictures etc, but you get the idea!)

The main kitchen area

Pearl

Washing up and tea and coffee!

My mantle with a few of my charity finds

The decadence of a second sink!

The view from the side entrance

Central Island Lights!

With a Pretty Middle!

The other end of the kitchen - new table yet to be purchased! 

Larder cupboards and fridge

Pictures waiting! Old Sofa for now.

Loving Cooking on Pearl :)

The colour on the walls is " Yes Your Honour" from Fired Earth

The units are a pale French Grey.
The dark grey on the chimney breast is "Antimony" from Fired Earth
I got the central Island lights through a company called Dusk
The floor is a brushed limestone in mid grey called "Chapel Stone".

The kitchen designer was Kevin Partridge and I cannot recommend him highly enough. An absolute gentleman who took pride in every inch of his work. Brilliant. His website can be found here
The units look paler here than they are, but they are a very pale grey.

I am so enjoying getting all my bits and pieces back out and arranging the cupboards again! I am in my element here. I have never had so much space to play with. 

And the OCD with the organising has begun...

I also have redone our hallway as we ended up getting the floor replaced in here. In the interest of cost I decorated this myself. I shall post my efforts soon. I think enough photos for today!

Hope it was worth the wait ! X

Almost There......

after months of mess....

The last few weeks have been exhausting. Both mentally and physically. I think the toll of having constant people working in my home for months on end is finally getting to me. Don't get me wrong they are respectful and pleasant , but there is no space and endless mess and noise. We had a couple of very late nights recitifying a problem that the tiler created to rescue our lovely floor tiles. Thankfully it all turned out ok, but it is not an experience I want to repeat. 

I keep thinking we must be coming to the end and then I write a list of all the jobs yet to be done and I can see it lasting another 6 weeks yet! The finish on the job is not quite what we want it to be yet.

BUT......

the kitchen is in

and it is everything I hoped it would be and more.

However, we are now resolving a few issues and getting doors put in, skirting fixed, sills painted etc. So it still looks a little like a building site. 

Pearl is in and working and we have had our first Aga breakfast this weekend. A real treat after 7 months of cooking on one ring!

We have also got our TV signal back as we have been without that since the scaffolding went up 4 months ago. I've not really missed it and the kids have watched the odd DVD if they have wanted some down time. We lost our internet for a while too ( hence the lack of posts) - this stressed me out more than no tv!

Despite feeling exhausted and like we have a mountain to climb to finish this job off properly I remind myself daily how lucky we are really and how lovely this is going to be. There are so many in this world who live with nothing so I try not to complain too often.

There will be kitchen pictures very soon - I am just waiting on the finishing jobs to be completed!

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Extension Update

I haven't done an update on our building work for a few weeks.

I am having to make some decisions on flooring and surfaces and I am finding it tricky. Not only do we have a budget to stick to, but of course I have an idea in my mind of what I would like and getting the two to meet is impossible!

My kitchen colour scheme so far is french grey painted wood for the units ( these are very pale), a dark granite for the surfaces, an oven in pearl ashes and dark grey for the central island. The walls will be somewhere in this colour scheme, although I want to keep it all quite pale as it is on the North side of the house and does not get a lot of natural sunlight.

Here is a bit of a photo dump to give you an idea of progress over the last few weeks to where we are now!

Garage and Boot Room

Side of kitchen

Rear door and utility/cloakroom

Nearly to the roof!

Utility/cloakroom

Bootroom/backdoor/door to garage

Front bay window in new kitchen

Garage

The next set of photographs were taken yesterday.

Back door

Old kitchen /utility wall half gone!

New Utility room

Looking out through the back door!

A roof!

Another roof! ( Garage)

Wall coming down in new kitchen area

Looking out of back door from old kitchen

This wall is coming down tomorrow!

Part of the new kitchen

 I am beginning to tire of cooking on one ring and a microwave. October feels a long way off at the moment! 

However , it is coming together and there was even some painting being done this week too.

Onwards and upwards as they say!

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Rising from the Dust

Update #3

Slowly the walls are going up. We had a week of rain and nothing happened.

I didn't think it would bother me, but it did - watching everything fill up with water and sit untouched for a whole week . I've waited so long for this I just want it to happen overnight. 6 months seems an eternity. 

Anyway, the sun came back and so did the builders , so it is full steam ahead.

Boot room.back door and garage

Front end of new kitchen

Back door,boot room, garage and utility/cloakroom at the back!

Bay window at the front of the new kitchen

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