Aha. Pictures! – Mirthful

Some pictures from the new flat:

Kitchen and living room to the right, bedrooms left. Will have to paint this wall. Might cover it with bookshelves.

1st bedroom, with something that looks like a carpet on this wall. WTF? Will tear down and eventually this will be the guest/craft room.

Wardobes in what will be our bedroom. Will have to paint walls. Also, probably, tear down paneling. Or just paint it. We'll see.

Third bedroom. Will stay as is and be "junkroom" for the time being.

More wardrobes. Three of the four bedrooms have these old wardobes, and they're great, so that's good.

Fourth bedroom. The lass has decided this is her room. Doesn't need much work, as we'll keep the walls white and add colour though furniture and accesories. — Fourth bedroom. The lass has decided this is her room. Doesn't need much work, as we'll keep the walls white and add colour through furniture and accesories.

View the other way, into the little hall which will act as a sound barrier to the living room, and has lots of closet space.

Living room - not crazy about the brick but I can live with it. It'll probably be hidden behind bookcases anyway.

Now, problem areas:

That carpeted wall. What were they thinking? Down it comes. Room will be painted white. Probably.
Green walls: Will be white ASAP.
Paneling: I hate it. Will consider tearing it down. Otherwise painting it white to blend with rest of wall. Probably tearing down, though.
Window frames and mouldings: I don’t like it. You guessed it: Paint it white.
Doors: Oh, the horror. A lick of paint would help, but I want the moulding gone, really, so I might try removing it on one door to see how much work it will take to make the door presentable.
Kitchen: It’s ok, I guess. Long term we will probably want to remodel. I’m still tempted to paint it, but I might not bother if we’re going to tear it out in a few years. It’s not the first project I’ll tackle, anyway.
Oh, and yes, those windows over the doors and wall. *Shudder* Not quite sure what to do there. Need to think. I suppose we could replace them with something “cleaner”.

2 thoughts to “Aha. Pictures!”

Luckily, you do have a lot of books, which will have to go somewhere, being perfect to hide those walls. The previous owners clearly liked walls not to look like (interior) walls.
I thought there were no wardrobes? That’s what you wrote when you first got the place. What’s the bathroom like?

I sincerely thought there were no wardrobes. I have no recollection of them from the viewing. However, there they – manifestly – are. One less thing to buy :)

As regards the brick, we’ve examined it a bit more and it turns out it’s actually tiles meant to look like brick. So it’s possible to pull it down. Quite a lot of work, though. It goes on the list of “future summer projects”, as I’m thinking all those ledges on top of the bricks/tiles will be a dust trap of some magnitude. Some way down the list, though.

The bathroom is old but ok. I’ll see if I can get a picture snapped. It’s also quite small. Another future summer project is redoing it (or, rather, paying someone to redo it). We can move a wall and take a square meter or so off the nearest bedroom, making it somewhat more roomy.

Nicolette says:

September 10, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Luckily, you do have a lot of books, which will have to go somewhere, being perfect to hide those walls. The previous owners clearly liked walls not to look like (interior) walls.
I thought there were no wardrobes? That’s what you wrote when you first got the place. What’s the bathroom like?
Mirthful says:

September 12, 2010 at 4:41 pm

I sincerely thought there were no wardrobes. I have no recollection of them from the viewing. However, there they – manifestly – are. One less thing to buy :)

As regards the brick, we’ve examined it a bit more and it turns out it’s actually tiles meant to look like brick. So it’s possible to pull it down. Quite a lot of work, though. It goes on the list of “future summer projects”, as I’m thinking all those ledges on top of the bricks/tiles will be a dust trap of some magnitude. Some way down the list, though.

The bathroom is old but ok. I’ll see if I can get a picture snapped. It’s also quite small. Another future summer project is redoing it (or, rather, paying someone to redo it). We can move a wall and take a square meter or so off the nearest bedroom, making it somewhat more roomy.

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