The carpets are coming a week tomorrow

The carpets are coming a week tomorrow and we still have 23 essential jobs on our critical list to be completed in the next 7 days.  However, we are making big strides now and the absolute excitement of this week is that the internal doors are being fitted.  Through searching on line (having visited a large door showroom in Ferndown where they were less than helpful) I came upon IQ builders Merchants who had exactly the sort of thing we were looking for - almost flush (to keep the dusting to a minimum) but with a little bit of interest.  I started an on line chat with James Bellett who has been fabulous throughout, answering all my questions and helping us to sort out some bespoke doors (for the cupboards) and also to locate some glazed doors of a similar design but from another company, which we can paint white.  

The doors between the lounge and the dining area have 

Parliament hinges (ie they fold back 180 degrees, 

which was the compromise as David wanted it all to be 

open plan and I thought it would be useful to be able to 

shut rooms off sometimes).

We have bought the door furniture from Spillers Architectural Ironmongery in Yeovil (we found them last year when we were looking for some coat hooks for the boat which could withstand salty conditions).  Fitting the doors is quite stressful for David; the doors are very heavy and as the surface is pre-finished he can't make a slip with a chisel in hand.  The first door took ages to fit as he had to set up a jig to cut the holes for the hinges but the rate of progress is increasing with each door.

An update on progress in Bedroom 1 is that the varnishing of the worktops is now finished (it has been hand sanded between each coat; this is now fixed in its final position.

In the centre of the floor you can just about see the grids from two of the speakers from the lounge which are being sprayed with paint in exactly the same Dulux colour as the wall in the 'chimney' breast has been painted - ordered from CJ Aerosols.

Finally, this is a speaker hole in the 'chimney' breast in the lounge.  This is lined with old car sound insulation from Frost Restoration - which will hopefully prevent the other residents of Tinneys Lane from being forced to listen to Wagner.