| The Lounge.
The lounge is open plan with a sitting area one end and a dining table the other. I do plan to get a big dining table at some point but as I mentioned in my first thread everything has been done as cheaply as possible and all the furniture has been given to us by family and friends. There is a large double glass window at the far end but I had to draw the curtains as it's such a sunny day here in Wales that the rest of the room was really dark with them open. It is fantastic on a nice day and such a light bright room.
As you can see from the before photos the floor is on 2 levels, the higher bit was where the cows used to sleep! The floor was build up level with Kigspan insulation and a floating floor was put on top. The flooring itself is plywood which I chopped into 4" boards on my table saw and then layed like boards. It looks really effective and is half the price of even the cheapest laminate flooring! I think it worked out about £0.30 a square foot!
The ceiling beams are false but look like the real thing, I used bog standard 2" x 2" for thsmall beams and 2 lengths of 9" x 3" for the main beams. I notched them out with a chisel fairly roughly so that the small beams sit inside the main beam and made false pegs.
Before. |