Barn Works Latest - Airing cupboard fit-out

Now that the building professionals have completed their work at Roskhill Barn, future progress towards a completely finished and fitted-out dwelling will be rather slower - because the only hands undertaking the work will be mine, with much TLC from Sue.

From the start of the project, it had been our plan that I would undertake the final fitting and finishing - partly to save a bit of money, and partly so that we would regain 'ownership' of the rebuild, and have the satisfaction of being able to say, 'we did that bit'.

To date, I have barely wielded a paintbrush, though there will surely be plenty of paintbrush-wielding to come... but the immediate task was to create places to put some (if not all) of the 'stuff' that one needs to 'put somewhere'. I first installed some of the old kitchen cupboards in the garage, and fitted a sturdy worktop on top of them, which gives me somewhere to work. My trusty and massive woodwork bench (rescued from the closure of a school I worked in many years ago) also now stands in the garage, where it is already proving immensely useful.

Today, I have fitted a piece of worktop above the washing machine, so our tumble drier has a solid platform to stand on without taking up any more floor space, and then I completed the fitting out of the large airing cupboard that we had installed in the new utility room. This involved creating ways of installing a lot of slatted shelving avoiding the assorted pipework which connects to the hot water tank and central heating. I've sawn a lot of timber and driven home a lot of screws, but I am well pleased with the result. Pictures below.

Tomorrow, the focus moves to the tiling of the kitchen....

The tumble drier now installed over the washing machine
and here is some of my new airing cupboard shelving.
I have bought ceramic tiles for the floor - to be laid soon....!

More of the airing cupboard shelving