DIY Home Remodeling Project

Week 14

I spent a couple of days emptying the old kitchen cabinets. I put most things into plastic boxes and took them to the garden. This wasn’t the most sensible idea I’ve ever had - by the end of the week the plastic boxes that contained food were full of ants and slugs and other crawling creatures. They even crawled into the food containers that I thought were properly sealed. So I had to chuck away lots of packs of organic grocery products..

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DIY Remodeling Project

Diary - Week 13

We’ve chosen the hottest week of the year to remove the wall between the kitchen and the sitting room. We created an enclosure around it so that the dust wouldn’t go everywhere. It looked like a scene out of ET. Of course dust  did go everywhere - the wall was a stud and plasterboard partition. Actually, getting rid of the wall didn’t take a long time and wasn’t very difficult - it was the dust prevention measures and the cleaning up that was time-consuming..

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DIY Project Diary - week 12

I had a meeting with the local planning office and they confirmed that the space on the first floor cannot be opened up because a protected escape route must exist in case of fire. These rules apply to three (or more) storey buildings. Installing a fire escape into the garden is not acceptable because the garden doesn’t have a direct access from a public road, and it’s not bigger than the height of the building. Expandable ladders attached to outside of the windows are not allowed either..

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DIY Project - week 11

We finally moved into our bedroom! Six months after we moved into our house. The mattress & the blind arrived on time; we created the radiator cover from Hessian and attached some floating shelves on the wall facing the bed. I filled the storage boxes with stuff but I also got rid of many things I haven’t used for years. I found things in boxes that I didn’t even remember I had - so  I reckoned if I haven’t needed them for a long time (or ever) I won’t be needing them now. It’s such a good feeling to clear stuff away!..

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DIY Project Diary  -  Week 10

Painting with the paint gun isn’t easy at all. I’d assumed it would be a time saver - but it isn’t. I bought an electric HVLP spray system - supposedly perfect for professional painting and lacquering because it creates an even, smooth finish - no brush strokes, no roller marks. However, the paint has to be thinned. A lot. Otherwise the nozzle gets blocked. This makes the paint so thin that you have to spray a surface many times. If you spray for too long the paint starts running down the wall..

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