Panoramic Lounge

Until Jim fires up Photoshop and does this properly, here is a quick, freebie powered panorama....


Stepok's Raw Importer was used to .... import the RAW camera files and create the JPGs
Firmtools' Panorama Composer (free trial) was used to stitch it together.

I have a flash virtual tour to upload as well.....

The doors

I realised there were no decent pictures of the doors at the back of the lounge. I will try and get one taken in daylight sometime, although the garden is nothing to write home about these days. We originally looked at folding sliding doors but they were 4 times the price of these!

Sockets

Not sure if I've posted these before, but we've gone for GET Ultimate Flat Plate Screwless Nickel/Black sockets/switches in the main room (what a mouthful....). A bit pricey, but they look amazing in the flesh - deep black but almost mirrored at the same time... and the dimmer switches are really cool:

Black nickel finish

Electronic dimmers

Small things and big things...

On the small things front, we now have a door on the ensuite (albeit with no architrave yet). Some of the block work in the rear hall has been removed as Geoff wasn't happy it was up to scratch and one of the doors on the kids' room cupboard is on.

On the bigger front the worktops were ordered yesterday for (hopefully) friday delivery. These include 2 holes for popup-power sockets from Evoline and 7 of those little metal bars for hot pans. We will unfortunately have one join on the hob run, but since that is a 3.5m run and the end which will be joined is a 90cm corner unit I suppose that is not such a surprise. The island will be a single piece though - 2.6m x 90cm, a BIG slab of 'nero absoluto' granite....

Gary the sparky has finally phoned in - he had tonsilitis so not only coudl he not come, but i expect he couldn't speak to call us either..... perhaps someone needs to show him SMS :-) He has sworn blind he and a friend will be here this weekend so we should come back to a very different lounge on monday - worktops, appliances, sockets and switches. We have decided to delay the light fittings and flooring until there is no heavy work going on, but the vast majority of the fixtures will be in place.

Feb 12th update

Photos from 8th Feb

Doors! We have decided to put glazed doors on the kids room and the rear hall so we can see what the kids are up to and let even more light in at the back. We have put a solid door on the snug to keep it private - and a lock! And a solid door on the front hall to retain the surprise of entering the big room.

The hob is in albeit temporarily, and since the sparky neglected to appear this weekend, we can't really use it as there is no power. It can be lit with a match, but we're going to wait and use it properly. It is a Britannia hob with a Chef Top which is basically a thick lump of stainless steel that sits on top of the fish burner in the middle.


A better piccie of the sink with the tap in full view - full of clutter already....

The rear porch looks great. Just the glass for the door to go in - oh, and the roof to finish off,

The utility is further away than expected - the rear hall seems enormous now we've added the doorway and moved the door to the kitchen a bit.


Photos from 12th Feb.

Work has started on the utility. This used to be an outhouse which the previous owners joined to the house via the shoe room. It has a double thickness brick outside wall, but building regs require us to insulate it before we can knock through from the house and use it.

The guys took the previous poorly fixed plasterboard off and ripped out the old oil fired boiler. We are keeping the Belfast sink (but cleaning it up). We will also keep the vaulted ceiling.



Unfortunately we have a chimney box left over once we remove the wood burning stove. So we will just get that boxed in.


The guys got a bit enthusiastic taking out the windows - and removed some of the wall! But that has now been re-built.

It is actually quite a big room when it's empty! This is Jazic (apologies for the spelling).


We now have the right doors - the solid and glazed doors match.