Day Eleven, Goodbye Stairs

February 12, 2013February 14, 2013 ~ Bungalow Blogger ~ 5 Comments

The old staircase has gone. It took a bit of an effort to get it out, it had to be cut into bits. It was well set into the plaster. Now there’s a ladder. Goodbye old stairs, you have served the house well but it’s time to go.

Coat cupboard before with underneath of stairs

The stairs were in a cupboard that backed onto a cupboard at right angles if that makes sense. Now you can get right through. This space will be used to put a massive pressurised water tank in which means we can run all 3 showers at once if needs be. Brilliant. I live in hope that teenboy and his siblings may wash spontaneously in the future. Its capacity is 250L . Told you it was massive. We had hoped it would be in today but the delivery was really late. Right now they are trying to get things so at least the heating is working. Very kind to think of us, snow forecast for tonight.

So, the old plumbing is all out upstairs, or should I say upladders? Fantastic. The new floor can get done now and then the dormers.

Other Stuff

We tried Nigella’s crepes last night with raspberries, delicious. Going to make some for tonight too, not sure if they’ll be American, crepes or Scotch. The troops can decide. I’ll leave them all to it though, I’m off out down Leith later for tea at the Rose Leaf. Canny wait.

Happy pancake making, these are in case you need them:-

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/eggs-recipes/pancakes-usa-stylie

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/CREPES-5303

Think i’m going to make this pancake week, enjoy x

Day Ten

February 11, 2013March 2, 2013 ~ Bungalow Blogger ~ Leave a comment

Day ten, is that all?

Only a little to report today, we have a few more uprights and an actual corner upstairs. I am sure there’s more than that – hard for my untrained eye to decipher. This makes the corner of the back bedroom.

The old cold water tank sits above the attic space and seems to have an inordinate amount of pipework around it. It’s coming out in the next couple of days along with miles of old heating and plumbing pipes. Good.

Cold water tank and lots of coming and going pipes

The little bird bedroom is having a makeshift makeover to give us a temporary bathroom. The ensuite needs to be taken out to get the stairs in and we need somewhere to wash, even the boys.

temporary bath in the position of the new bath

We are still deciding on bathroom stuff. I am tempted to put a freestanding bath in under the window – there is something putting me off and I cannot put my finger on it. Have you any idea how many options are out there for the bathroom? Did you realise a toilet can be hanging, open back, close coupled, hidden cistern, back to wall, softclose, not to mention the one that seems to wash as well as flush. Hmmmm. No wonder we’re finding it hard to finalise our choice. Steel bath, acrylic bath, composite bath, etc,etc. Anyone got any comments for or against freestanding baths?

My pinterest

http://pinterest.com/purvesthomas/

I’m still not sure how to get the little button on the blog, so here’s a web link. I’m still getting the hang of the boards so there are some random pins in the wrong section, I’ll get there.

Twitterland

February 9, 2013February 9, 2013 ~ Bungalow Blogger ~ 2 Comments

So, I’ve played with Twitter and I think I might be missing something. Is it just quick musings from anyone and everyone? Hope so or I’ve really got a lot of catching up to do!

I’ve been looking at the plans again and trying to visualise our new upstairs, again. I think I can see it kind of. My next goal is to organise my pinterest page so decorating my lovely new space will be a breeze. That’s the theory anyway.

I have 2 boys who are in gamezone heaven since we moved the tv, x-box and chairs into the big room at the back. F hasn’t even taken his coat off. I like that we are all in here doing our own things together. I don’t like that we are all in our own wee techno worlds so I’m taking us out for a dog walk to check out the new obstacles in the little park near us. Funny,the boys don’t seem keen! I’ll save pinterest for later.

Here are the boys…