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....
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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....! |
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| More of the airing cupboard shelving |
