My house renovation

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Tiling started in the ensuite

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En suite starting to look like a bathroom.

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LocoBlade said:

Still ploughing on with the refurb, well done. Are you hoping to have the whole lot finished fairly soon?

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Two out of three bathroom should be fitted within the next couple of weeks. Waiting for carpet fitters quote to come back and I think they could be done before Christmas. That’ll leave a fair bit of decorating to do over Christmas then one more bathroom and a custom wardrobe. Then dare I say it, that’s about it.

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Good going, I sometimes wish we'd gone for something that didnt need as much work or we'd been a bit more conservative with the purchase so we had more resources to get everything completed in that kind of timeframe. We're also now a year in to ours and it feels like a never ending journey doing the majority of it DIY, we've only fully completed the kitchen and two bedrooms, the hall, study and downstairs loo are almost there as well now but still all 3 bathrooms/ensuites to do plus the living room and two more bedrooms need doing. Then there's the garden

I will admit I'm very lucky that I never went to uni so have no student debt, and have basically spent my entire working career saving money pretty well, so we have been able to pay professionals to do a lot of the major work. At the same time my best friends down the road are also renovating (nowhere near to this scale though, mostly decorating and a new kitchen) but they're doing 99% of it themselves/family helping. It does make me feel a bit guilty when I hear that he's spent the whole weekend tiling the kitchen for example, whereas 'all' my wife and I did ourselves was the destruction and some decorating.

So I do feel your pain, DIY clearly takes forever, but then I guess we'd never have dreamt of buying this place if I didn't know we did have money to put into getting pros in to do the big bits. But even for us it has felt never ending, the amount of times we've had to move bedrooms, still no carpets in the bedrooms, one working loo and all that.......it does make it hard to believe within the next 3 weeks or so suddenly all of that might be over.

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Burwood said:

Great work there UTH-did you do the grafting yourself?Bravo
BTW-what is the flooring-real Oak?

Me and the wife did all the ripping out/smashing walls and so on. Anything that was actually skilled work was beyond us though, so we can't take any credit for the good looking bits.

The flooring is: https://en.quick-step.com/en-sg/laminate/impressiv...

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Bit more bathroom progress.





Downstairs loo will be painted the same colour as the wall in the en suite. And no doubt have lots of pointless pictures hung.

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Finally stripped out the final bathroom, almost cleared it ready to start kitting it out

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3 bedrooms now carpeted, and master bedroom at last has the new bed, and custom wardrobe unit fitted and painted

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We've had some decorating done, decided to add some blue features/accents in the living room, quite bold but I think it's pretty nice



Downstairs loo and en suite now finished painting







And finally got around to getting the mirror up on the brick slip wall

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Final bathroom stripped and pretty much ready to be renewed

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Wine store starting to fill up



Still need to work out how to get lighting as per the inspiration photo

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trixical said:

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Still need to work out how to get lighting as per the inspiration photo

would LED tape lights work?

I’m hoping to use Phillips Hue strip lights as most of my house is now Hue, just not sure how they’d fit yet.

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Finally got bench/work top on the 'bar'.

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dirtbiker said:

Looking great! Keep it up! Always nice to see people getting on with things, progress is very slow on our house redecoration due to small people!

It feels like progress has really slowed as we near the end. We have the final bathroom to be finished, then carpets in the final spare room and some painting, but even those bits have dragged 6 weeks longer than we planned.

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Sheepshanks said:

Can I ask a couple of questions please - is that holder for soap etc built into the shower riser? We're stumped what to do for the wet room we're having built apart from having a naff looking wire shelf in the corner (no depth for a recessed shelf available).

Also the toilet being recessed into the vanity unit - does that work OK, do you catch your arm on the unit as you sit down etc?

The photo is deceiving……shampoo and shower gel is just balanced on the taps, so not really a holder as such

Recessed loo is absolutely fine, no chance of catching your arm at all.

For the shower, our permanent solution is this, hooks nicely over the top of the glass: Kegii Shower Caddy Hanging - 2... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09BZ4H84Z?ref=ppx_pop...

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TimmyMallett said:

Booze shelf looks nice, is that an offcut of 20mm worktop?

It's a custom cut piece of oak. If that's the right term?

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Little update, the cats have been pissing us off lately to the point we decided we needed a door put in the kitchen archway to be able to shut them downstairs at night.

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Mr Roper said:

Excellent thread.

Love the wine store!

Me too! Although filling it to capacity is remaining elusive.

I've got some nice lighting in there now, must remember to post a photo or two at night

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samdy said:

How do you find the sliding door. Is there anything to stop the bottom of the door from rattling on the wall if for example the cats try pushing on it?

Yeah there’s a very small little black “thing” screwed into the floor that runs in a groove cut into the bottom of the door if that makes sense?

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Mike_k said:

can i get a link to the sliding door fixings that is just what i need but not found any suitable

good work looking good

Fairly sure it was this

https://www.vidaxl.co.uk/e/vidaxl-sliding-door-har...