The house is done and sold and we're off travelling the world on our way to Vancouver where we're going to either end up with a townhouse in Burnaby, or if we're lucky a detached house in East Van. We'll see. To follow our travels go to:
www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Penscott/
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009
Sold!!!
Well, that's it our flat is now finished and sold. We sold it for £97,000 including most of the furniture to a family who's sun will be studying history at Stirling Uni. It's a cash purchase and should be pretty straight forward. We were a little disappointed that 6 months ago we would have got offers around £105,000. However considering that many people are losing money on their homes, or are having them reposessed we can't complain. We didn't make any money really, nor did we lose any. We just spend a year and a half renovating, which was just our time and effort.
We leave the flat on the 16th of May, and then we're planning on going travelling around a bit of Europe and America before getting married in Hawaii. So the next blog should be all about travel now that we've finished the flat. We'll post up the link to the new blog when we've got it going!
We leave the flat on the 16th of May, and then we're planning on going travelling around a bit of Europe and America before getting married in Hawaii. So the next blog should be all about travel now that we've finished the flat. We'll post up the link to the new blog when we've got it going!
Monday, 26 January 2009
A weekend of work, and we're finally done!!
So we'd planned to reno the flat in the space of a year roughly...but we took last summer off, and instead it took us almost 2 years, but it's done!! We're very happy with how it's turned out, and also to be done! Now the problem is getting it valued. We've had one estate agent in who said it was done very well, and had good sized bedrooms. However given the climate that it was probably only going to get around £96,000 now where 6 months ago it probably would have got around £105,000. Ouch. What can you do?
However it's done, and there are some pics of the finished flat below....whew, it feels good to be done!
The view from our living room window
The kitchen
more of the kitchen
The finished living room, much cozier with some pictures/paintings up
It's tidy too!
Our book case impressed some people...although they were Canadians who seemed to like built in book cases!!
The main bedroom, finished, carpeted, and tidied! It's a pretty big bedroom!
A better view of the main bedroom, or the Australian room as the pics over the bed are....of Australia!
Our finished, painted window boxes, we had these made for additional storage
A bedroom door with a handle, do you know how long we didn't have a bedroom door!
The finished storage cupboard I spend almost 2 hours scraping paint off the floor....it sucked
It's mostly outdoors gear, but it has potential for many things!
The spare bedroom
Gizzy the hamster and another window box
This room is also known as the Canadian room as the pictures over the bed....are of Canada! No prizes for guessing that.
A door handle, I know it's silly to get excited about door handles, but when you didn't have any for almost 2 years....
The main hallway in the flat
We used the leftover carpet to recarpet the outdoor hallway, and repainted it with a nice warm terra cotta colour.
We built a wood section at the top of the bathroom doorway to hide the sliding door...
The bathroom wen through the biggest transformation with alot of work done ripping down walls, and basically gutting it. However we think it's turned out pretty well!
The tiling we did isn't too bad, but there's always room for improvement!
Our £1000 towel rail, that was a nightmare, and the storage/towel cupboard underneath...we wanted lots of storage for all life's little bits n pieces...and storage we have plenty of!
You can see where I started scraping at the top, and then all the paint on the floor at the bottom...almost 2 hours of knee busting pain!
However it's done, and there are some pics of the finished flat below....whew, it feels good to be done!
The view from our living room window
The kitchen
more of the kitchen
The finished living room, much cozier with some pictures/paintings up
It's tidy too!
Our book case impressed some people...although they were Canadians who seemed to like built in book cases!!
The main bedroom, finished, carpeted, and tidied! It's a pretty big bedroom!
A better view of the main bedroom, or the Australian room as the pics over the bed are....of Australia!
Our finished, painted window boxes, we had these made for additional storage
A bedroom door with a handle, do you know how long we didn't have a bedroom door!
The finished storage cupboard I spend almost 2 hours scraping paint off the floor....it sucked
It's mostly outdoors gear, but it has potential for many things!
The spare bedroom
Gizzy the hamster and another window box
This room is also known as the Canadian room as the pictures over the bed....are of Canada! No prizes for guessing that.
A door handle, I know it's silly to get excited about door handles, but when you didn't have any for almost 2 years....
The main hallway in the flat
We used the leftover carpet to recarpet the outdoor hallway, and repainted it with a nice warm terra cotta colour.
We built a wood section at the top of the bathroom doorway to hide the sliding door...
The bathroom wen through the biggest transformation with alot of work done ripping down walls, and basically gutting it. However we think it's turned out pretty well!
The tiling we did isn't too bad, but there's always room for improvement!
Our £1000 towel rail, that was a nightmare, and the storage/towel cupboard underneath...we wanted lots of storage for all life's little bits n pieces...and storage we have plenty of!
You can see where I started scraping at the top, and then all the paint on the floor at the bottom...almost 2 hours of knee busting pain!
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