Dear forum this is my ongoing project... If you have any suggestions of if you see anything that I am doing wrong I would like to hear it from you.
I'm an electronic engineer and before buying my first home I never touched a brick.
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My wife she is 7 months pregnant of our first baby therefore I need another room.
We bought this house in feb 2009 and always thought about changing kitchen and bathroom.
I started by removing the carpet from the actual bathroom ( year carpet in the bathroom yack) and replaced it with tiles. Being my first time I have used the cheapest tiles I could find and all was easier then I thought.
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And added a towel radiator (Bought all the tools and first time plumbing copper pipes) .
The next step was to remove red and yellow wall paper from the lounge and you don't want to know what was underneath... holes , graffiti like old paint ( i was pretty scared that some archaeologist could stop me from working on it)... and so... with that huge amount of holes and scratches I had 2 options
1 to put back wall paper (not really my cup of tea)
2 get a plaster to redo my walls.
Got a quotation and at that time I could not afford it as I spent all I had saved on this house.
So I decide to take the challenge and start my own plastering experience...
Made 25000 mistakes and took me 10 evenings to do 3 walls but at the end I was satisfied
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Converted 85% of the house with LEDs lights 4w each and spotlights.
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Took a good year of rest and now I'm starting with a big project... As the title says " I need a room for my up coming first baby"
I thought I could convert my actual bathroom into a small bedroom and cut the L from the kitchen to do a new bathroom.
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New bathroom design
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Removed 1 of 2 windows
and replaced
Replacing all water pipes , gas pipes, and central heating pipes .
New space saver radiators
New walls in the bedroom with soundproof plasterboars.
Sorry about the mess!!! I'm too tired and need to go to bed I will add some more picture soon.
I'm an electronic engineer and before buying my first home I never touched a brick.
http://img708.imageshack.us/i/picture002hj.jpg/
http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8531/picture002hj.jpg
http://img849.imageshack.us/i/scan0115y.jpg/
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/9660/scan0115y.jpg
My wife she is 7 months pregnant of our first baby therefore I need another room.
We bought this house in feb 2009 and always thought about changing kitchen and bathroom.
I started by removing the carpet from the actual bathroom ( year carpet in the bathroom yack) and replaced it with tiles. Being my first time I have used the cheapest tiles I could find and all was easier then I thought.
http://img826.imageshack.us/i/img1324v.jpg/
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/2603/img1324v.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/i/img1325y.jpg/
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And added a towel radiator (Bought all the tools and first time plumbing copper pipes) .
The next step was to remove red and yellow wall paper from the lounge and you don't want to know what was underneath... holes , graffiti like old paint ( i was pretty scared that some archaeologist could stop me from working on it)... and so... with that huge amount of holes and scratches I had 2 options
1 to put back wall paper (not really my cup of tea)
2 get a plaster to redo my walls.
Got a quotation and at that time I could not afford it as I spent all I had saved on this house.
So I decide to take the challenge and start my own plastering experience...
Made 25000 mistakes and took me 10 evenings to do 3 walls but at the end I was satisfied
http://img853.imageshack.us/i/img1308v.jpg
http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/2702/img1308v.jpg
http://img263.imageshack.us/i/img1309x.jpg
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http://img155.imageshack.us/i/img1335p.jpg/
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Converted 85% of the house with LEDs lights 4w each and spotlights.
http://img585.imageshack.us/i/img1286o.jpg/
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8973/img1286o.jpg
http://img856.imageshack.us/i/img1298m.jpg/
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http://img23.imageshack.us/i/img1361o.jpg/
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/242/img1361o.jpg
Took a good year of rest and now I'm starting with a big project... As the title says " I need a room for my up coming first baby"
I thought I could convert my actual bathroom into a small bedroom and cut the L from the kitchen to do a new bathroom.
http://img28.imageshack.us/i/scan0117g.jpg
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5896/scan0117g.jpg
New bathroom design
http://img163.imageshack.us/i/img0314ob.jpg/
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2590/img0314ob.jpg
http://img52.imageshack.us/i/img0313td.jpg/
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Removed 1 of 2 windows
and replaced
Replacing all water pipes , gas pipes, and central heating pipes .
New space saver radiators
New walls in the bedroom with soundproof plasterboars.
Sorry about the mess!!! I'm too tired and need to go to bed I will add some more picture soon.