A Room of Surprise UPDATE

 

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Things are moving along nicely with Grace's room. The carpenter is here today to start work on her sloping floor. He has managed to pull up all the old MDF which was laid badly & unevenly on to original beams.

If you look at the spirit level, you can see the angle of the slope in the middle, over the main beam. If you look at the rear wall, where the skirting board has been removed, you can see how the angle gets steeper. There is almost 4 inches difference between the left & right walls. No wonder Hugh could always be found playing with his cars there, watching them roll by themselves down the 'hill'!

We have decided to move the small radiator from under her window, to the opposite side of the room & to double it's size & make it a double, not single as well. So we are waiting for our plumber to come tomorrow!

 

We also had a rather lovely surprise;

We removed an old piece of boarding which covered where the old fireplace had been. We were told by a previous owner that it had been removed. Well, clearly that isn't the case, because as you can see, there is the original, Georgian fireplace! It even had its own dead bird & a deserted bees nest!

Now to commit sacrilege- tomorrow we are reboarding it back up. We don't think it's terribly practical to keep it in a 7 year old's bedroom. We won't be putting a gas or electric fire in & needless to say a wood burner is out of the question! We can't just leave it open as one of the main reasons for such a drastic overhaul of her room is to try & preserve heat in the winter. This house gets bitterly, bitterly cold & it is a very large house so trying to heat it is a constant battle in the winter.

 

So we are covering it back up and, perhaps, in years to come we might open it up & it would be a fabulous, original feature to our beautiful home.

 

UPDATE

 

Clearly I posted that too early! Becuase this is the lounge, directly under Grace's room.

The carpenter slipped off a beam & put his foot through the ceiling of the lounge below. I know it was an accident, but it still happened. That was the first room we did in this house & it has been absolutely plagued with disasters. From wonky ceilings, to plaster cracking within days of being applied. Just a disaster.

Now this. Oh and this;

 

The woodworm treatment he applied to the beam has leaked through the (badly constructed) ceiling, all down the wall & left a horrendously stained puddle on my very expensive brand new carpet (which we have all gone to enormous lengths & great personal effort not to mark stain or ruin!) it has also ruined my perfect, amazing, beautiful expensive & now discontinued curtains on which the whole room decor was based & which are the same as the ones in the 'mirror' lounge.

Crapitty crap crap crapwits.

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggggh.

 

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