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!