The doors

The dining room window has been replaced by some great bi-fold doors we found at the salvage place. I hadn't been there before and had to restrain myself from buying all kinds of stuff. We also got some other bi-folds with coloured glass panels. You'll see them morph into side windows for the front door at a later date. These doors are the doors to nowhere at the moment. Soon there will be decking outside. Can't wait. You can see some drunken skylight planning on the wall.

In the meantime, 'we' are putting the air con in. 44 degrees warrants some cooling in my opinion.

Started as a normal window.










The column on the left side is one door. The other two is a bi-fold.



We are going to put a cat door in one of those empty bits on the right. The last bit of kitchen bench will go on next. Left it to last as we didn't want to damage it when putting in the doors.

This is where the decking will be

Cupboards

Here are the first two cupboards put together (not in their final spot). Thankfully its only a small kitchen cause im over putting cupboards together now. Im really proud of these cupboards. And yes, the kids graffiti'd the walls once i said they were getting replaced. So they wrote on the ones that are staying (although they'll be covered).



The next two. The cupboard on the right is for the oven.



Not sure if its obvious but the door has been moved to the right. This meant I could have a bigger oven.



OMG a bench (oak) i could use




Those carousel things in the cupboard above are mongrels to put together. Four are done and in place. Oh and they work brilliantly.

The bench will go on the cupboards below once the window is swapped over for a door.  You can see the Christmas tree up the other end of the room. I think its well over time to put that away.

Im not overly keen on where the tap is now but too bad because its there. Reasoning behind that placement is that the window will be dropped to be level with the bench and I didn't want the tap being damaged by kids on the other side of the window. The sink is the BEST. Its big and deep. Tons of room.



The dishwasher is in and working although its 'stand' needs to be fixed up. Its still a bit temporary. I love this cooktop. Its almost fun to cook. Almost.



Ends, plinths, splashback and other bench top need to be put on but other than walls and ceiling and floor, that bit is sort of finished. Well kind of.

It was a long few months

Lots of preparation to get the house ready for selling and now Princess Milly is tired.

On the level

From this

To this

Hard to see to be honest but there was a fairly decent gap.  Now there isn't.

From November to now

I can't believe the last picture I posted was of my arse crack and really bad lino. Not sure what is worse. I finally have internet and a great computer so I can update with some more pics and news now.

Update on the pictures below.

We pulled up the carpet in the lounge room and discovered that the boards were in really good condition. Just some weird staining that someone did. Sanding it should sort that. 

We knocked out the wall dividing the lounge room and kitchen. So one big open plan room. I didn't like the idea at first but it meant I could have a bigger kitchen so i was easily talked around.  Picture below shows the first section cut out.



During

And after.  CARNAGE

Following picture is from before we pulled up the carpet. 

I pulled apart one of the old kitchen cupboards. Turns out the cupboards you see in the earlier pics are updates. They clad the old cupboard in the new panels, put on a new bench top (over old one) and so on. They built things to last back then as ripping this kitchen apart nearly killed me.

One of the high priority things we had to do was level the house.  The house is about 60 years old and definitely not level. You could get vertigo walking up some parts.  "We" pulled up three boards from one whole side of the house. I had been told I was getting under the floor to put the blocks in but i decided that was the best time to have a nervous breakdown to get out of it.  Too many spiders under there. 

With the three boards replaced