My house renovation project

Couple of small updates!

Most been cleaning the house of dust etc so I could paint the main wall downstairs ready for the radiators to go on tomorrow.

The ceiling still needs a bit of touch up around the edges as does the front wall where the window is!

Bathroom been painted, spotlights in, lots of cleaning taken place in here ready for grouting tomorrow!



Living room wall painted!


Original light hole patched up, three spotlights installed on the landing.


Full steam ahead over the next week, granite worktops being fitted this week!
 
Loving the progress, also like the fact your also using lightwaveRF!

You've stolen my kitchen idea! Only joking but with the white handle-less gloss units it looks really smart, ive just been to get mine priced up this morning and will be ordering soon but i cant decide if i could get away with the grey version of the same kitchen i wonder if it would be too dark?

Keep up the progress, will be nice to see it finished!
 
Thanks mate!

Been keeping a close eye on your project too!
To be honest I nearly went for the grey as it does look smart my only concern with going grey was the fashion cycle you can't really go wrong with white!
Yeah I've had the lightwave kit for a while, got two switches downstairs for all lights, one for kitchen led strip LEDs rigged up to a pir same as the bathroom.

Bit of progress today but wasn't picture worthy! Sanding and filling... Lots of it!
 
James said:
Thanks mate!

Been keeping a close eye on your project too!
To be honest I nearly went for the grey as it does look smart my only concern with going grey was the fashion cycle you can't really go wrong with white!
Yeah I've had the lightwave kit for a while, got two switches downstairs for all lights, one for kitchen led strip LEDs rigged up to a pir same as the bathroom.

Bit of progress today but wasn't picture worthy! Sanding and filling... Lots of it!
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Ive been thinking about having my plinth lights on PIR in the kitchen too, did you pair this with a socket with an led driver or to a switch? did you use a master/slave switch one for main lights one for plinth?

I know how you feel with the sanding and filling, soon gets annoying!
 
The way I've got it configured (although haven't wired it all in yet) is.
PIR paired to a switch on the wall, hoping there is enough load with three lots of lights if not I will have to try and add some load in!

Sanding and filling is painful but so worth it for the end product!
I took my time with the main lounge wall, filling uneven parts, sanding back, painting sanding, painting again! But the finish is as good as it can be!

The plan is to have the bathroom, heating, electrics and ground floor finished by the weekend.
 
The last week I've spent 6pm-11.30pm sorting out downstairs ready for the worktops to be fitted on saturday! I'm so tired now!

Anyway pictures!

Popped to the granite shop to see the granite being cut and got this picture!



Been sanding, filling and painting the kitchen... not much to see here really...






Ballustrade painted in gloss white.


Cutting in done on the feature wall.



Bathroom walls grouted.


Left the understairs door to dry tonight... worktops and LED strip lights are on the list of tomorrows jobs!
 
Looking good. I really like your tile design in the bathroom.

Have you jumped on the LED bandwagon or are your downstairs lights pumping out best part of a kilowatt? :D
 
Hi There,

NerveAgent said:
Have you got enough spotlights?
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I wanted a few extra but that was all I could squeeze in.
In all seriousness there is 8 more than I originally planned but I had to add more into the equation for symmetry with the way the joists were laid out.

LeeUK said:
Should get an ultra modern looking fire place for that feature wall instead of a radiator.
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That's where the table is going and the other one will be next to the corner sofa.

Fourstar said:
Looking good. I really like your tile design in the bathroom.

Have you jumped on the LED bandwagon or are your downstairs lights pumping out best part of a kilowatt? :D
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Thanks, the tile design is very marmite and theres still a piece of white quartz to go on the window sill!

Firmly on the LED bangwagon, pumping out 4W per LED ;)

@Glaucus - Was a big risk but I'm glad I went with it in the end!
 
Today is granite worktop day!
I'm going back to finish wiring the LED strips up later but here is the kitchen!

Really pleased how its turned out, I have to buff the surface up tomorrow there's polish on there at the moment which takes up to 24 hours to go off before I can get polishing!









 
Wired in all of the LED strip lights for under the cupboards, hung the door on the understair cupboard.

All lights off apart from the strip lights:



All on together...


 
Very very nice, and you've actually put an overhang on the granite top to the breakfast bar so you can actually sit at it! Well done, why doesn't everyone do this, it should be the law...
 
finga said:
looks very nice, bet you cant wait to finish it all now
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tigerstyle said:
Very very nice, and you've actually put an overhang on the granite top to the breakfast bar so you can actually sit at it! Well done, why doesn't everyone do this, it should be the law...
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Tummy said:
Looking good :D.
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Thanks all.

Certainly am looking forward to getting it all finished!
Should be on course to get finished in around 10 days time.

Flooring has been bought and booked to be fitted next saturday which means I need to definitely get a shift on with finishing decorating!
 
Few updates!

First of all my Sofa has been delivered!
It was either now or mid January, so I thought best to have it now!



Went and picked up this lot on the same day...


These also arrived in the post... Although not yet fitted!


Finally got the oven and hob plumbed in!


Some pictures of the floor fitted on the ground floor, looks much more like a house now!



 
Also for the eagle eyed amongst us, the kitchen sockets ARE NOT going to be staying like that with those horrible gaps, they are on the list of things to be sorted!

Also the top of the boiler cabinet has been partly taken apart as I'm due to box in the pipework at the top this week too.
 
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