Floor boards complete around the built in bed

Out built in bed, is now set off by the floorboards.

Only skirting boards still to fit in this room before its complete.

Floor boards finished around the pallet cupboard

First item of clothes hanging on the rail!

Final cost of cupboard - pretty much free.  Just the cost of the handing rail and ironmongery.

Door also made out of waste pallets.

Floorboards looking great.

'Left over' cupboard complete

Cupboard and hanging rail complete.  Cupboard door also made from the old pallets we had left over from material deliveries.

A simple cupboard door catch.

Floor boards finished in first room

Bedroom 4 floor boards complete!

Floor boards going down upstairs

The first floor boards go down.

Floor boards are laid on 'foxtrot' board, laid over the smart ply, to help absorb the sound transfer through the floor.

Close up of the foxtrot board.

The first row of floorboard to go down along the landing - setting the line.

We choose to nail the boards down with sheradised nails rather than glue the boards down.  Using glue would have reduced the sound transfer through the floor even more.  However glues tend to 'off gas' and can reduce the indoor air quality.

The 'left over cupboard' starts to take shape

Building the sides and top of the cupboard.

A cupboard out of 'left-overs'??

The challenge was to make a cupboard out of the things we had left over on site.  We had a limited number 100x100 sawn timber posts.  An unlimited amount of waste pallets that all the materials had been delivered on.

What could we make???

Sanding down the rather dirty posts (they have been used a lot during the build for temporary platforms etc!).

The contrast!

Looking better...

Posts ready to go.  Onto the pallets.

Lengths of board cut out of the pallets.

Sanded up.

We were going to paint the pallet slats, but have decided we quite like the rustic look.

The slats fixed to the posts to form the side of a cupboard.

To be continued...

Stairs arrive

The stair structure with cut strings, and smart ply sub-treads and risers.

The longer treads are to extend into the stair window.

Landing balustrade posts arrive

Waiting to be fitted.  The top of the balustrades, showing the saddle that the handrail will be fixed to.

The base of the posts - showing the holes that we will thread metal stud into, which will fix to the stair trimmers.

The posts were made by Win-Born Products, near Cambridge.

Landing cupboard ready for the handles

Cupboards decorated and waiting for handles.

Side profile.

Decorating one of the wardrobes

Nearly done with the wardrobe!

Building bedroom furniture

Building a bed for one of the bedrooms.

And the open wardrobe / hanging area.

And the wardrobes in another bedroom.

Starting to build kitchen cupboards

The flat packed carcasses stacked up ready to be built.

A space cleared to build them in the main living space.

Standard, off the shelf carcasses.

Fitting out the master bedroom

The boarded wall behind the bed.

Looking towards the ensuite.

The window seat.

Fitting out the dressing area.

There are dressing tables on either end of the boarded wall the bed will go up against.

Scaffold boards

Scaffold boards drying out, ready to start making furniture out of.

Ok, so its been a little longer than a couple of weeks!

Mirrors

We have learnt the same lesson twice this week - glaziers work to 3mm tolerances, so trying to get multiple mirrors to fit tight into a set gap is too ambitious.

More work in the bathrooms

Mosaic tiles in the family bathroom.

Grouting the magnetic removable tiled panel.

And the fixed tiling around the basin.

The bath panel and mirror cupboards fitted.

The front of the mirror cupboards.

The ensuite all plumbed in with cupboards and shelves completed.

Basin fixed to the wall in WC, but not plumbed in yet.

It's the smallest basin in the world!