Pots and Cans

Pots and Cans

Monday, January 25, 2021

ON THE CUSP OF REFURB

What could be more complicated, working out how to vaccinate 30 million people or trying to figure out how to fit the contents of two bedrooms into an already overcrowded lounge?  Yet this is the conundrum faced by everyone embarking on a property refurbishment – where the hell to put all your stuff whilst you’ve got the plasterers in.  Hmmm, tricky.

 

Where to put it all?

After weeks of soliciting tradespeople, poring over estimates and mathematical computations that would leave Einstein totally confused, it’s time to throw the champagne bottle at the renovations ship and launch phase I of our Tart Up project. 

Taking the old coving off the ceiling

Stripping out wardrobes

Clearing out airing cupboard


So, what does Project Tart Up look like?  Imagine a very wrinkly tortoise going to a beauty parlour, the transformation would be like a hairy caterpillar turning into a butterfly so will it be with our crack-ridden, dilapidated bungalow.

 

Before - upstairs corridor

Before - the spare bedroom

Before - spare bedroom window

Before - spare bedroom wardrobe

An open plan lifestyle beckons for the next few months as the refurbishment of the upstairs bedrooms is finally only a week away.  From next week our lounge/diner/bedroom will be the centre of our disordered universe.


Before - back wall of our bedroom

Before - stripped out cupboards

Before - the corner cupboard


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