It's been a while

Well a Happy New Year for those that I haven't spoken to recently....

It's been quite a while since we updated this blog as there hasn't really been a great deal happening over the Christmas period. Since then though, things have started moving again now that we're into the New Year (and the builder is obviously keen to complete sooner rather than later).
First off we went through the snagging list with the builder just after Christmas and whilst there wasn't a great deal to do on that front, most of them have now been completed, so there's just a few things left for them to polish off.

January has seen us picking and buying tiles for the en-suites, bathroom and kitchen. These are the wall tiles rather than floor tiles which are going to come later.

For the en-suites we have opted for some called Esmira Blanco which are a kind of off white. This is going to be for two walls in each en-suite with the remaining two walls being painted.

The bathroom is going to be cream tiles with a brown mosaic, floor to ceiling, splashback behind the sink.

For the kitchen, we hunted further afield as it seems to be harder to find nice kitchen tiles locally here. We've opted for a green and cream chessboard style marble tiling job.

Right now the tiler is in working on the en-suites as these are the only tiles the places had in stock at the time of ordering. We are awaiting a second delivery of tiles early next week.

I have also now started painting the interior walls. We have opted for simple magnolia for much of downstairs so I have bought a couple of 10l tins of paint and all the necessary tools to get to work. The family room on the front was the first target which was started on Tuesday night.




This is the first lick of paint to be applied to the house internally. (the wires you see are for wall lights)
Shortly after -


The first wall was finished. It seems I started on the easiest wall in the room ! The rest took significantly longer and it was around midnight by the time I'd finished and cleaned up.



This is my first attempt at videoing, uploading to youtube and then embedding in blogger so bear with me if this doesn't work right.

I had intended to do some more tonight (painting not embedding) but I have contracted the cold from Sophie & Erin so am feeling under the weather today and will likely give it a miss, continuing next week.

Furthermore, we were in the solicitors on Wednesday signing more paperwork and he reckons we could be looking to complete in a couple of weeks when we can really get started on the rest of the stuff that needs completing.

I will try and get back into the habit of updating now we are getting stuff going again.

All the best for the New Year to all (even if it's a bit belated).