In between Stages - Inspiration/ Design

After a day of demolition, it's time to start thinking about how we are going to hopefully redesign our ensuite. As I said earlier we need to establish our colour palate - well from much research and mini paint tubs, Nick and I have decided on the following:

White, Grey and Yellow

So there we have it - The white for the walls will be Whisper White, the white for the skirting boards is Vivid white, our grey will be Malay Grey and the yellow.... well I'm still deciding on that one so watch this blog!

Stage 1 continues

Before I venture into the colour palate and design side of the house, we must continue the demolition. Today Nick took too what is too be our ensuite and boy O boy did he make a mess...! 

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See... didn't he have some fun! A real stress release.... Nick tried to keep the existing tiles as we were going to recycle, however, he discovered that the top 'new' tiles were stuck not onto the wall underneath, but the older/ original tiles!!! I couldn't believe this - what tiler just tiles upon other tiles... lazy. So cutting to the chase, we must look for brand new tiles for the floor and walls .. Woo Hoo! let the fun begin.

Stage 1 - Demolition

Two months ago my partner (Nick) and I bought a house - Now having finally gained possession we begin the fun part; demolition!

First we started with the dark wood picture rails, these just had to be removed to heighten the rooms and hallway areas. It was a simple job, all you need to do is scrape the paint near wall edges length ways along the rails and then attack with a crowbar. The only annoying thing was being such an old house the nails and pieces of wood holding the rail to the double brick walls, were a little larger than we imagined, therefore wall putty was needed to fill the gaps/ holes in the walls.

Next was removing the God ugly brown carpet that was laid before the turn of the century - Honestly this was the stinkiest, most damp carpet I had ever seen. We will (to my dismay, as I want floorboards) replace the carpet - we are thinking charcoal or a dark grey, in theme with our colour palate of the house; White, grey, dark gray and yellow.

Before

After

Next stage painting and choosing our colours to suit our palate!