Bathroom

The work has started on the Bathroom, which means that we only have temporary facilities. Ian’s eyes lit up yesterday, when the builder suggested opaque glass bricks, both on the wall of the new en suite and in the new door (these won’t be plain glass -so no worries about privacy). The glass bricks will be high up in the new en suite and will let light through, which we didn’t think we’d get. There will be a row of glass bricks down the side of the new bathroom door that goes from the bathroom to the cloakroom (the cupboard under the stairs) before the door to the hall. This will let light into the cloakroom and it will all look pretty good. Ian and the builder are very much on the same wavelength and we’re really quite confident in letting him get on with it. It is getting very exciting!

It’s actually not as bad as we had thought, living through the building work. I think that this is due to a number of reasons. Firstly he works in just one or two rooms at a time, so it is not complete chaos. Secondly – he is very tidy! It is a tad embarrassing that after pulling tiles off the wall and knocking holes in the wall, he manages to leave it tidier than before he started! Lastly, I think we were bracing ourselves for complete mayhem and therefore anything else is a pleasant surprise.

Tomorrow we are going with our builder to look at tiles. We’re going to put plain white tiles under the stairs in our new cloakroom, and perhaps look for something a little more special in the bathrooms. We don’t want to cut corners – but neither do we want to blow our entire budget on tiles!

We do have a video. It started as a video for Alicia, however it quickly turned into a record of our building work. There is 26 minutes of it – we just need to upload it, you lucky people…..!!