Productive / Destructive (Sunday)

So on Sunday I continued to tear things apart and I'm not sure what commentary can really be given. Dan, another friend from work, came over and provided great help in tearing the wall apart. It was noisy work and I really hope I have not made new enemy's of my new neighbours...

After a cheeky tidy up and two trips to the dump, not to mention a bunch of wood kindly donated to owners of the lower ground flat for their fire pit. The place is once again habitable for another week. I may however try to take some time off next week so I can remove the other wall in the daytime when it will not cause such a disturbance to the flats above and beneath.

And that was the weekends progress... Big thanks to Will and Dan for helping out this weekend!

Productive / Destructive (Saturday)

An unexpectedly productive/destructive weekend. I was not sure at the beginning of this weekend what I was going to try and get done. So Saturday morning I set about removing the high cupboard in the second bedroom, and over the course of the weekend more and more was done. On Saturday afternoon I settled on trying to have the corridor walls removed by the end of the weekend.

This plan was good because it meant that I could put off the arduous task of capping off and removing the radiator that is currently on the second bedroom side of the remaining dividing wall.

Anyway, I started by just unscrewing the high cupboard over the entry to the second bedroom and taking off the two bedroom doors.

As I was doing this two things happened, the first was that the wall paper started to peel off along with the wood. A good thing as I am planning to remove it all anyway. And the second was that Will, a friend from work, arrived armed with a drill. This accelerated things considerably.

Early in the afternoon we made a supplies trip to B&Q and I ended up buying an additional drill, now adding to a ridiculous collection that I have strewn across the country. After lunch I continued on removing the hall cupboard while Will set to work on the plasterboard in that bedroom corridor area.

By the end of Saturday I had got through and opened up an old opening through into the first bedroom where the cupboards had been and will had stripped one side of the second bedroom corridor wall of its plasterboard.

This neatly brought a close to Saturday and was a good place to stop.

One job down, god knows how many more to go...

Well, touch wood, that went pretty well, and there was plenty of wood to touch. Far more than both Charlie, who was visiting for the weekend and was a great help, or I had expected. However it's all in the car now and ready to head to the dump. The room feels so much bigger now, it's and exciting eye opener for how it's going to be as this is only the first of three extensions to this bedroom.

Anyway here is an update plan, to put into context where how the layout currently stands. I should point out that I had done this plan from memory before I moved into the flat and so the dimensions have not been measured or confirmed and therefore it's more of an indicator.

The bed is in and rotated back around to represent how it's going to be. I also need to plan out what happens next and until then will be sleeping in this room (it has the nice big window).

Here are some snaps of the most over engineered wardrobe being removed step by step.

And that was that really. Next job was to get it all into the car, it just about fit, and then take it all to the dump, which I plan to do this morning. A good days work and I am very happy with the results so far. I might add that despite flippant remarks in my first post, no hammers were used in the removal of this cupboard.

Biggest project yet!

Moving in day plus five. I now own my own place and although not large I'm hoping to make it, well, perfectly formed, or as close to it as I can get. True to form I'm recording the project in blog form so I have a nice record of all the highs and lows but also so that the few of you great people who seem to take an interest can check in from time and see what's going on.

I'm in Bristol and I've bought myself what I am calling a 1 and a half bedroom flat. I say this because you can't fit a double bed easily in the second room and it would be cosy living if a couple of people who weren't a couple were living here.

Here is a plan of what the place looks like currently:

And here is a plan of what I am thinking of changing it to, but it should be noted that this layout currently changes daily and it is by no means set in stone yet:

This means removing some walls, relocating the bathroom and pretty much a new everything, and I am still in the process of costing it all up before I go ahead. However, there is one thing that I am pretty sure of. The cupboards in the bedroom are over a meter deep! Now I understand that storage is useful in a small flat but this is excessive. So, step one is to get rid and make some space.

Here is a before photo and although, without flooring, it is not going to look particularly pretty in the after photo, I am hoping to start to see the potential when the space opens up.

...and so, where's my hammer!