All Entries in the "Home Reno" Category

Bedroom Reno Part 6 – Completed: Before and After

Well the bedroom is almost done and other than a few finishing touches (like door handles!), we are finished, whew!

Here are some before and after shots to compare.

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Bedroom Reno Part 5 – In Our Bedroom Again!

Well we are back in our bedroom again!  It’s all sort of make-shift at the moment but that’s how it goes when you are renovating.
I took this photo last night before crawling into bed.  As you can see we have our bed together finally, and a nice big new mattress on top.  We had to [...]

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Bedroom Reno Part 4 - Blood, Sweat and Curtains

When I say that our blood, sweat and tears have gone into our new bedroom, I’m not jokin’.   At the moment I have a finger and a heel bandaged due to renovation related accidents.   Xander has injured three of his fingers.
No good renovation goes without a few casualties, and if I have to give up [...]

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Bedroom Reno Part 3 – We Have a Floor!

I finally finished painting the bedroom the other day.  God what a task.  As I mentioned in my previous post about it the texture of the wall made painting it an absolute hell.
It’s done though!  The walls are finished and the molding has been painted and put up at the edge of the ceiling.

Now that [...]

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Three Musketeers

Did you ever get the feeling you are being watched?
Can you tell it’s dinner time?  I was getting the stare down by the three of them wondering when they were getting fed.   Xander doesn’t usually do it but I think he figured if it works for the dogs…
Pixel turned five months old today.  She’s growing [...]

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Bedroom Reno Part 2 – Plans and Painting Progress

The bedroom was completely cleared out and washed down.  Xander was a HUGE help with this part as he doesn’t really do painting.

On Sunday my friend Penny came over to help give me a head start on the painting, which was great.   For the past 3 days I’ve been in and out of [...]

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Bedroom Reno Part 1 – Camping Out!

The time has come to tackle our bedroom and get it up to date with the rest of our house.   It has been a long time coming!  We’ve been living in this flat for about 8 years and we’ve not done a single thing to it since we moved in.   When we bought the flat [...]

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Bathroom Reno Part 2 - Toilet

The second part to the great bathroom renovation was our little toilet closet.  Quite the norm by European standards but it freaked me out for the first while I was here.   It literally is a closet just big enough for me and my toilet.
The weirdest thing for me in the beginning was the toilet shelf.  [...]

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Bathroom Reno Part 1 - Shower

I was just thinking about some upcoming redecoration that is going to be taking place here and I got to thinking about the house and how it’s changed again.  I started wondering if I’d ever shared our bathroom renovations.   I searched the blog for toilet, bathroom renovation, bathroom before and after and a few other [...]

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