Having said that though it was very exciting when the light switches arrived this week. These light switches have been the objects of my desires for many months now after I spied them at the Grand Designs exhibition last year. I thought they were wonderful, sleek and very stylish and different from your common white boring box. Hubby on the other wasn't really fussed, although the price was a major factor. These lovely things would cost double what a normal light switch or socket would cost.
My argument was that I would only be fitting out this house once so I wanted the nicest things rather than feeling I had settled for second best. OK so they are a bit more expensive but I'm only going to be buying them once!
I recently took a second job so I said that for each shift I did that would mean I had bought a couple more light switches.
Robbie the Spark, spoke sense when he told hubby to let me have my way, because otherwise he would never hear the end of it and if light switches were my 'only demand' he was getting off lightly (no pun intended).
So I ordered them and they arrived and how excited I was, i know I'm building them up now, and i expect when you see the photo of them, you'll think, 'mmm its a light switch so what' but I love them and I'm happy so thats that.
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| My dream switches. |
Of course the next thing we have to decide on will be things like taps or door handles and no doubt I'll get a little excited about those too.
Hubby has just returned from another short trip over to see how things are progressing in the house and has come back armed with new photos. It looks like things are moving along nicely.
Upstairs has been insulated, so again it looks different from the past photos.
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| My craft room, insulated. |
Insulation on the external walls downstairs is also in progress,
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| The sun room before |
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| The sun room now |
We even have windowsills too!! Does the excitement never end?
Also during this visit:
- The electricity board visited site to plan where electricity will enter our property.
- The plumber and plumbers merchant visited to count how many radiators we need.
- We have ordered the two fuel stoves for in the lounge and dining room.
- The stairs are now on order.
- Because we will not be using oil to heat our house the tiny boiler room which is at the back of the hot press(airing cupboard) is no longer needed so Kevin the builder is going to brick up the external doorway and knock through from the hot press to make a much larger space. This will house the new heating system but also provide a much bigger walk in hot press which will be very handy for drying clothes especially during the wet months when drying clothes outside is not an option.(to be fair this is most of the year)
After the insulation has been completed the plasterers will be in to start work on the internal and external walls. I expect by the time we visit again August we will see another huge difference.
Also during this visit:
- The electricity board visited site to plan where electricity will enter our property.
- The plumber and plumbers merchant visited to count how many radiators we need.
- We have ordered the two fuel stoves for in the lounge and dining room.
- The stairs are now on order.
- Because we will not be using oil to heat our house the tiny boiler room which is at the back of the hot press(airing cupboard) is no longer needed so Kevin the builder is going to brick up the external doorway and knock through from the hot press to make a much larger space. This will house the new heating system but also provide a much bigger walk in hot press which will be very handy for drying clothes especially during the wet months when drying clothes outside is not an option.(to be fair this is most of the year)
After the insulation has been completed the plasterers will be in to start work on the internal and external walls. I expect by the time we visit again August we will see another huge difference.
