Thought I would start a little thread about my latest little project. First i'll tell you a bit about the house, I bought this house almost 5 years ago now it was originally a detached 4 bed, 2 reception room, 2 bathroom single garage house which was rented out to a 4 separate tenants as a house share for around 10 years prior to me buying it. As it is today It's 3 bedroom, 3 reception rooms so two rooms upstairs have been knocked into one and there has also been an annex extension and the garage lengthened at some time in the past.
I stretched a little bit further than I would have wanted when buying, I then stretched again and upped my payments come remortgage time in an attempt to reduce my term fairly significantly in the first 5 years which to be honest has worked out pretty well financially but to facilitate my retirement plans some things had to slip a little so the budget for fixing the place up and getting it properly liveable had been less than desired. In the first 4 years or so I had a multitude of issues and problems fixing broken things everything from load bearing walls, boilers, electrics, leaky and bodged plumbing, the list goes on.
It's only really now again after a recent lul in house issues that i've started to find the motivation to get up and start sorting the place out again and this time the focus has been my office/man cave. This room is basically a single story extension off of the back of my garage and is around 16 to 17 square meters, it's next to our lounge and is where I go to do any projects, its basically my retreat away from the junk that's on TV.
So this is the room when we moved in:
And its stayed like that up until around two weeks ago when one evening I was in there having a little game and I just couldn't handle it any more and started ripping paper off of walls. Here are a few pics of the journey with this room so far:
And that's really where I am up to right now. I'm currently toying with 2 darkish blue walls, a grey wall and a white wall. Im thinking big shagg pile blue rug, new desk and chair. storage with space to display some hardware, some leggo and all that sorts of stuff. I also got these framed that I got with fallout 4 so they will be going on the wall somewhere:
This thread, I warn you will be a relatively slow burner as progress will pretty much stop for a few weeks while I visit some places in the states, starting with Vegas in a few weeks. Any comments on my poor workmanship, ideas or any other idle chatter is all welcome
I stretched a little bit further than I would have wanted when buying, I then stretched again and upped my payments come remortgage time in an attempt to reduce my term fairly significantly in the first 5 years which to be honest has worked out pretty well financially but to facilitate my retirement plans some things had to slip a little so the budget for fixing the place up and getting it properly liveable had been less than desired. In the first 4 years or so I had a multitude of issues and problems fixing broken things everything from load bearing walls, boilers, electrics, leaky and bodged plumbing, the list goes on.
It's only really now again after a recent lul in house issues that i've started to find the motivation to get up and start sorting the place out again and this time the focus has been my office/man cave. This room is basically a single story extension off of the back of my garage and is around 16 to 17 square meters, it's next to our lounge and is where I go to do any projects, its basically my retreat away from the junk that's on TV.
So this is the room when we moved in:
And its stayed like that up until around two weeks ago when one evening I was in there having a little game and I just couldn't handle it any more and started ripping paper off of walls. Here are a few pics of the journey with this room so far:
And that's really where I am up to right now. I'm currently toying with 2 darkish blue walls, a grey wall and a white wall. Im thinking big shagg pile blue rug, new desk and chair. storage with space to display some hardware, some leggo and all that sorts of stuff. I also got these framed that I got with fallout 4 so they will be going on the wall somewhere:
This thread, I warn you will be a relatively slow burner as progress will pretty much stop for a few weeks while I visit some places in the states, starting with Vegas in a few weeks. Any comments on my poor workmanship, ideas or any other idle chatter is all welcome
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