Floor preparation

It's been quite hard to get much done during the week, but we at least finished off the floor by putting down coats of varnish in the mornings and evenings.

First coat:

Second coat:

Final coat:

But when that coat dried, it was a crazy colour.

So we put down a 4th coat which turned out a lot nicer. Maybe a bit too shiny, as one of our friends has described it as an indoor ice rink, but it will dull down over time.

It's kinda hard to see in the photo of the whole room, but the windowsill has been gone since we took the tiles down. We have started to make a new one using the finest materials we could come across in bunnings - skirting board. Hopefully it'll start to look like an actual windowsill when we finish it off, but for the moment it's pretty unusual looking. Very narrow, and most definitely a horizontal skirting board.

But now we have new wires for sockets woo!

And Hugh has sealed the crazy patch of oily madness in the ceiling from when we had the ceilings raised earlier in the year, and we filled in the teeny holes all over the plaster, so now the place is set for the ceiling dude to call by tomorrow and fix the place up. And of course for plastering the giant patch of brickery in the corner.

Tomorrow we will remove the kitchen from its current house. It should take a bit longer than removing our own kitchen, as we won't be doing it with a sledge hammer.