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Before & After - Ground Floor

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I hardly know where to begin to show how awful this was when I bought the place and how much worse it got before it started to come together. I love it now but just looking at the 'during' photos makes me feel sick, they bring back terrible memories of frustration, depression and the crazy stress I put myself under - especially while I was living on site.  I suppose it was a good life lesson in that whole "what doesn't kill you ....." thing but I'm not sure I'd put myself through it again even for what I think is a great end result. HALLWAY Before.......This is the original porch, more of a lean-to really During.....All of the new services had to come down one side of the hallway so some clever boxing/shelving was used to disquise them After....Very happy with this space. It's light and airy and very practical.  The 'harbour mural' in made from paper mache by a local artist who lives in my street. I commissioned it...
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Before & After - 1st Floor

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House all finished so here's photos of the 1st floor As with the 2nd floor the area was basically stripped out, rewired, boarded and plastered. The floorboards were sanded and the doors stripped. Most of the walls and woodwork have been painted white. There was already a bathroom on this floor it wasn't well laid out and didn't have a toilet in it.  Bedroom 2 is really basic but I made a bit of effort with the master bedroom and I'm really pleased with how the little landing where the toilet used to be has turned out. 1ST FLOOR BATHROOM This was already a bathroom but only had a bath, basin and the boiler in it.  It was very badly laid out and an oversized cupboard that housed the boiler was blocking out a lot of natural light.  It's now very similar to the 2nd floor bathroom, just a brighter colour with higher ceilings. Here's what it looked like before... Cleared out ready for the fittings After ...floors sanded ...
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Before & After - 2nd Floor

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2nd floor now completed - consists of 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and access to the loft. The whole area was basically stripped out, rewired, boarded and plastered. The floorboards were sanded and the doors stripped.  Most of the walls and woodwork have been painted white.  There's some furniture in the bedrooms but I haven't given that much thought yet. The only interesting bits were adding the entrance to the loft and fitting the 2nd floor bathroom. 2ND FLOOR BATHROOM This was previously bedroom 5. It had some old decommissioned plumbing in one corner (lead pipes etc for what I guess was a servant's sink or something).  When I viewed the house I couldn't actually open the door properly because there was so much stuff in it. Here's what it looked like before... Once it was cleared out the framework for the new bathroom was built Until finally it looks like this.... BED...
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Before & After - Loft

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First room to be completed - the loft space. This already had a dorma but only had ladder access when I bought the house.  It was being used for storage when I viewed the place but because I was planning to convert one of the 2nd floor bedrooms to a bathroom I thought I should try to make the most of this space.  Here's what it looked like in the beginning...... So it all had to be stripped out and a proper staircase built........ Until finally it now looks like this ......... So that's one room sorted - just another ten rooms to go plus a few landings and hallways  
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