You can't tell much from this, but basically the floor has dried and pipe work started.  They are also starting the inside walls, so we actually start to see the room sizes - almost.

This will be the side entrance leading into the home maintainence room

This will be the hallway/entrance

View from the kitchen - towards the hallway/entrance

The door to the garden

Just finishing off a few things before quiting for the day, got a fair bit completed so thought I would only work till midnight after being in the office all day!  Yeah, ok I just picked up some random tool left by the work men and made it look like I was doing something.

Hi,

The below comments are typed by me, the husband.  I take no responsibility for any offensive comments or the fact that the missus will change most of what I type anyway ;-)

The "clear-up" or cleaning is our responsibility and you can certainly see that the builders know that already. We had to order a skip for last weekend (May day weekend) to get it started...

The back of the house wasn't much better!

Below is a fairly large skip - by Saturday afternoon it was full.

Amazing what a bit of hard work can achieve and also convincing your in-laws to help :-)

The back garden is also looking better, but there's still a small bit of wood to chop!

Somethings just couldn't been cleaned this time round - it's either concrete or we have some big dogs round this area with a bad diet!

Our first visitor, typical he got to crap here before me!!  If the builders doing it first wasn't bad enough

 

 

The picture above was taken today (12.4.2011). We were a bit unsure about the chosen colour, but now that we see them on, they look good. We chose dark grey, instead of black or red, and they really seem to suit the style of our house. We are still not sure about the outside wall colour, but we have loads different samples (and those that know us also know the shades range from grey to grey...) :)

Oh - by the way, did we mention that we are thinking about painting the house grey :).

The husband was just saying, while looking at this picture, that wouldn't grey suit this house really well... :)

This blue interior colour will change to... grey...

Isn't it great that concrete is grey....

But we know it is an illusion. It is the inside work that will take the time... We were first hoping to move by Christmas 2011, but hopefully this will be a bit earlier.

At the moment we are deciding on the outside colour (the husband suggested blue and white hoops=QPR). We know the colour, but don't know the shade yet.. whether we are going for light or dark.

 

 

 

 

Below you will see the floor plan, although we have made some changes to it.