Finished bedrooms

It's been a while since I last posted - living in a house seems to mean that it's never tidy enough to photograph. Well it does in my case, anyway. But I've finally taken some photos of the two bedrooms that I think are pretty much finished, so here they are, with before shots.

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

 ... and of course, including the view of Derek the Dragon from the back window.

The Hall Floor

I have spent many, many hours scraping black glue remnants off the hall floor, and Martin has repaired the channel that had been dug across the hall for pipework and then concreted over.  

So it has changed from this:

 To this:

Tomorrow I have a 'Tile Doctor' coming to hopefully restore them back to their former glory. Watch this space!

Dining Room

This has been the workroom/carpentry room for so long, but finally it has been emptied, painted, and I have spent some hours (days?) cleaning, sanding and varnishing the floor, so I'm pretty happy with it now, I might even get it furnished and all the crockery and glassware unpacked in time for Christmas.

  

The Study Window

The stained glass window for my study is now in. It was inspired by the beautiful fragment windows in so many of our cathedrals (wrecked in the Reformation or the Civil War and put back together as mosaics), and created by Rachael Aldridge, who made the door panels for me. See her website at: http://aldridgeglass.co.uk/  I love that she was able to let me have some left over fragments from church windows she had restored in Northampton, I found some bits for sale on ebay, and there is a little Cheshire Cat, hand painted by Rachael in the window as well.  It makes me very happy when the sun shines through it.

The kitchen (finally)

But here is the kitchen - maybe a little more touching up of paintwork to be done here and there, but otherwise pretty much finished, so maybe it's time for some 'before' and 'after' shots.  (From every corner of the room!)

Update

There's still so much decorating and sorting out to do that I've not taken many more photos yet.  The building work is pretty much finished, and so it's all down to me for the rest of it.  Martin and Ray are still around though, doing some hard landscaping in the backyard/garden as weather and other work permit.  I shall miss them when they've gone. 

Moved in!

Sorry, I'm very behind with this blog, I moved in a couple of weeks ago and have had other things to do.  I shall take some new photos very soon.