Another room done! Well 2 actually.

Penny and I are getting close...very close of finishing the flat. We're waiting for Mark a mate, and coincidentally a joiner to come and finish off some work. He's putting in some window seats, and also fixing the built in bookshelves as they're pretty ugly at the moment. Once's he's done then we're ready to go! So in the meantime we've spent the last two weekends working on the living room floor trim, the cupboard by the kitchen, and the storage closet.

The trim required some angle cutting to make the corners fit...which was dodgy, because we didn't have enough material to make too many mistakes! We pulled it off though. So the trim now coveres the gaps between the hardwood flooring and the walls in the living room. We need to do the same for the hallway when we get around to finishing the hall.

The cupboard required a bit of paint, and a bit of wallpaper...not too tricky, just time consuming...but what a difference! Below you'll see the original salmon colour the whole living room was done in...and after the magnolia that the whole flat has been redone in.
The storage closet required a bit more work. The wall on the right was added in so it didn't have coving, or cornicing, or whatever you want to call it. So we had to cut and add a section of coving.
Once that was cut and added we could start the painting...again, what a difference!
So we've finished another couple of rooms, the living room and the storage closet...mostly. Like the rest of the flat flooring won't be done until last, but apart from that we've only got the main bedroom to paint, and the hallway to finish. We're hoping we can do this in the 3 weeks up to Christmas...wish us luck!

Floor trim, which hides the gaps between the floor and the wall.

Better view of the wall and the trim.

The cupboard just after it was built

Note the lovely salmon paint on the walls!

We couldn't paint behind the piping, so we wallpapered!

A pain in the butt, but we finally finished painting it properly!

Much better than the horrible salmon hey!?

The storage cupboard when it was about 1 foot deep!

Then after Mark knocked the wall down and opened it up to the living room behind it.

Note the wall on the right is new, and has no coving at the top.

Now it's got coving, and it's about to be painted.

Partway through painting...

Yay! It's finished! Coving looks good!

It looks so much better now that it's finished...or maybe just feels so much better!