Lounge ceiling down

A completely irrelevant photo to start off, but the rest aren't very pretty ones so I thought I'd include this! The sweet peas in the garden are going mad, we can't keep up with picking them. But I'm not complaining, as we get pots and pots of lovely flowers to dot around the house. 

Right, back to the subject of this post. The children went for a day out with my sister on Saturday, so how to make the most of a child free day? What should we do - a romantic day out? A relaxing day in? No, we knocked down the ceiling in the lounge!! Well it needed doing sometime soon, to put in new electrics upstairs, and to add some sound proof insulation between the lounge and the bedrooms. Far easier to do it without little people in the way. 

The room once emptied of stuff...

The sofa had to stay in with a dust sheet on as it was a nightmare to squeeze through the door when we got it. The brick fireplace and corner unit had to go, as I discovered a lovely tv corner unit on Pinterest to go in its place - I just need to persuade OH to make one for me. I've also spotted a gorgeous flame effect gas fire with a stone surround but it will be a very far in the future purchase as there are LOTS of other more important things to buy first. 

Big Girl wanted to keep the brick cabinet as she really likes it (but then she likes woodchip wallpaper and anaglypta too, I think she was born in the wrong era!) and she got her way for now, because as we lifted the wooden top off we discovered it must have been installed when the house was built as there are no floorboards underneath. It's a big hole straight down under the house! At some point soon  all the floorboards have to come up in here when we put in insulation, so when that's done we will add a floor in that bit and the bricks can come out. 

The view below is looking from the lounge, through the dining room and into the new garden room. The old patio doors that went out to the conservatory are still in, so we can use that room as a dust free place to store everything from the lounge. Once all the messy work is finished we can rip them out and it will be more free flowing and open. 

And here it is once the ceiling is down, certainly makes it a lot darker in there...

Work in progress...

As the bricks above the fireplace came down we realised that the plaster behind was loose so that all had to come down too. 

And this is what it is like when we'd finished. Rather rustic looking but at least all the visible dust and mess has gone. By the way it's Little Boy watching Paw Patrol on the tv, not me - honest!

Do you know what the best part of the day was? Having a shower! Don't you just love it when you get filthy dusty and dirty, and how lovely it feels when you wash it all off and put clean clothes on. Then we collapsed on the sofa with a pizza and chips, a beer for OH and a big cup of tea for me!

So it was a hard, dusty, dirty day but it's one more big job crossed off the to do list. 

Speak soon

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