warm, toasty and cosy!

This is the previous state of the kitchen just 6 weeks ago!

Now look at the amazing work, during this time the wall has been plastered and rendered on both sides. Addiitonally aluminium box gutting was fitted by our builders as the roofers do not do guttering. The builders have then smoothed the edges with really neat plaster work right up to the top where the glass frame starts. And you will notice this week we got delivery of the roof in the kitchen with 2 electric opening vents.

View from below

View from the other side wall of the kitchen, check out the right where you can see the really sharp clean lines of the window frame, the window will be in place next week! Yay!

This is the kitchen, sorry the units which are going to be installed next week. Tons of boxes the most BH and I have done is wardrobes, this looks like a lot of fun!

And the boiler has been moved to insert the flue above the glass roof. This is the utility room AKA Former kitchen. The manifold in the bottom right hand corner was fitted yesterday, so we are snuggly and warm. Thanks a million as the temperature has dropped drastically and we are expecting snow!

This is another view of the utility room, all the pipe work for the upstairs bathrooms is coming through here, huge amount of work as this was all external before, lordy you saw the state of this room before and our pipe work was to say the least dire before the builders got their mitts on it. I watched Mr T using his fab blow torch to fix in all these pipes, radiators and the manifold.

The ladder radiator for the utility room is in place and drum roll... the skirting boards are in place! Don't they look amazing? Actually we know they look amazing.

Close up of the manifold it's the last time you will see this powerful beast.

Utility room door with completed victoriana framing, looks lovely.

The kitchen and utility room units.

Beautiful capaccino marble floor which is so toasty underfoot! Snow eat your heart out we are snug!

Utility room marble floor, we couldn't help it lovely and warm!

The Study

The roof is in place, and our kind builders are going to complete the work as the roofers don't do corners.

Check out those skirting boards! Neat, neat, neat, it's all looking fab, and did I say it's warm too? All heated!

This alcove is the old kitchen door which led to the garden, now it will have shelves in place.

Couldn't help it, check out these skirting boards and the finished floor!

These are the steps down into the study from the lounge, there will be a frosted glass door here, we had to have a step due to the architect doing bad plans, but our builders came up trumps. This cuts into the lounge floor and has a cool ledge on the left [thinking fab uplighters], these are also the original floor boards. Also we had a headache over the skirting boards in the lounge as the ones from the old back lounge didn't match, these look better than the original and very arty. Look at the grooves!

View of the steps from the study into the lounge - very nice!

Skirting under where the TV will be, and the step down into the study, this was such a great idea!

 The Lounge

The door frame to the study is complete, with the step down. Additionally the old picture rails have been srtipped and reinstated. The radiator has been put back in too so very warm now.