The Next Instalment .......

....... of the house renovations.

Before we start the work proper, we had to get steel toe cap boots, cos lots of things were being knocked down (these are Bibs).

This is a picture where the fireplace used to be in the old kitchen (Bib forgot to take a picture of this before the gas fire was removed !!!).  It was on an angle.  This is looking towards the front of the house.

This is where the original stack pipe used to be (half in and half out of the house), behind the gas fireplace because the bathroom was above us.  As you can see Bib thought it would be funny to put me up here among the old soot and near the old stack pipe hole. You can see the original pipe in the picture on the right hand side of me.

Now that there is dust being created, it's landed on all the cobwebs !!!

As the work is starting, we all thought that somebody had to supervise this lot, so we volunteered and here we all are ready and comfortable !!!

 The photo shows a doorway has been created from the ground floor front room into the back room.

This is from the other side.

And again from a slightly different angle.  The cupboard is staying, but the fireplace will be removed and relocated in the front room, where you can just see a gas fire (and below).

We got a bit bored supervising so decided to have a play with this wheelbarrow !!!

The hole that was made in the wall leads to two walk-in wardrobes and a bathroom right at the back.  Bib's wardrobe has the original cupboard in it - she says she going to put her special shoes in it, her Irregular Choice shoes. 

Here we are balancing on the structure that Richard (Bib's husband) built - he's a carpenter, but sshhh don't tell anyone.

And this is Bib's special shoe cupboard, it's original and was used to show off all your posh crockery.

The fireplace has been removed.  The above cupboard is to the right of this fireplace.

And these are the tiles from that fireplace that Bib tried to rescue (there was a concrete hearth over the top of them and it had stuck to some of the tiles - Bib was very angry).  She got as many as she could, all in bits, to use somewhere else in the house.

Until next time Ratters .......