Living Room Almost There!

For the last 2 weeks we have put in loads of work to the living room. We pulled up the carpets, with Deborah's help, we painted it, took off the curtains and blinds, sanded and polished the floor, lots. And now it is very nearly finished. We bought a new suite of couches (well, second hand) and got a tv off a colleague of Hugh's (thanks Sarah!) and this is what it looks like now:

And this is what it used look like.

We still need to fit new blinds and change the light. Also we're not sure what to do with the fire, but we will take out the old electric heater and see what it looks like behind before doing anything drastic. I have some nice pictures of the wooden floor sanding process too to put up soon. It was a lot easier than we thought it would be.

The Living Room Begins

We have started to sort out the living room. Hugh and George took all the furniture out and put it in the spare bedroom last weekend. That room is now so full that you have to take a running jump to get in. The living room though is now fine and spaceous.

This is the large window visible on the front left of the house. There are terriflyingly dirty net curtains over the windows, so when we get a full bio suit, I'll have them down. In the meantime, this is going to be the next room to get the zulu plain treatment. 

And these are the double doors that lead into the living room from the hall. This was taken last weekend when the wall was still white in the corridoor. I'm really bad at getting photos off the camera at the moment. These ones are from George. Soon though we'll have the auld internet in the flat again so will be back in full comms action.

We quite like these doors, but they are going to be impossible to paint around so we must figure some way of taking them down for a while. They are on sliding rollers, hanging from the top, but the complication of unhooking them is that there is a decorative cover over the top which is trapping them in. A new power tool is required no doubt.

Retro

So this is the mighty retro living room of our new house, which we will get the keys to on Friday, if all goes according to plan. Note the wonder of the 70s clock, sofa and awesome carpet. This is probably going to be the first room in the house that we try to renovate. We will rip up the carpets and sand the floors, possibly put in a few extra sockets, and paint it a nice clean off white colour. The wooden furniture in the room is lovely so we'll keep that, but maybe get a new couch.

Rumour has it that if the gas heater is pre-80s (most definitely) that the gas company will replace it with a new model for free. Sweet! Also a bit of rendering on the fireplace may bring it into the 21st century.