A few photos

I suppose this happens to a lot of bloggers: you set out to chronicle something you're working on and then get so busy doing the work that you don't have the time (or energy) to blog about it. So I'm taking the easy way out by posting a load of photos to show what I've been up to.

The bathroom is done. All the pipes are boxed in and the ceiling and boxing have been painted. All it needs now is a mirror and a toilet roll holder.

The main bedroom is also all papered and painted (ceiling, skirting boards, door frame, walls, even the radiator). Papering into the window recesses was a real challenge in all the bedrooms.

This is the mahogany windowsill in the smallest bedroom. I stripped and sanded all the windowsills back to bare wood and then treated them with wood oil. How anyone could paint over such beautiful wood is beyond me. This room is also now papered and painted.

In the second bedroom there is now just a box over the stairs where the big airing cupboard used to be. Colin, a handyman, made the top and fixed the sides for me. Then I fitted the skirting boards around it and painted everything. As in all the bedrooms, I put thick lining paper on the walls and then painted them.

The window in the second bedroom. This radiator needed painting as well - in the same colour as the woodwork.

Coming soon: the living room.