This project stemmed from my Man Cave side project (still ongoing), which was made necessary by Franco being forcibly ejected from Office 1.0 to make way for Francine and her humongous printer in m’ Lady’s Chamber (side project D). Our…

[Clearly our side projects to 2020 Covid19 Knockdown were not destined to be completed in the order in which they were conceived.] Hitherto we’ve both been sharing one “office”, which was originally designed to be a single bedroom. Francine, a…

Some businesses seem to be booming, largely those dealing with the things people have done whilst stuck at home during a pandemic. The kick-boards for our kitchen units have been languishing in the garage for a month or two waiting…

One of our more agonizing decisions in our kitchen-dining room conversion was settling on a dining table. We had wandered around various furniture establishments with a sample of the wood grain top to be used on the dining area cupboards,…

Murphy’s Law is generally quoted thus: If anything can go wrong, it will. Complete tosh, of course, since there’s always something that can go wrong but our flooring episode was beginning to make me doubt my rationality. [Francine, of course,…

… or Rapunzel Reprised. My last post was on 18th August, so we’ve clearly had a 5-week hiatus. The intervening time has had our Flooring Man arguing the toss with Moduleo, the suppliers of our defective flooring. Going into any…

Last week we were floored and were very happy with the service and overall appearance. That lasted until Francine tried to clean up what she had assumed was a small patch of glue. [Baby wipes are the thing for removing…

Flooring Man had screeded more or less the whole of our ground floor and left fans blowing over it to help dry it out. However, the weather has been v. humid so the screed did not dry sufficiently overnight Thursday…

Our Flooring Man had had a cancellation and had offered Francine the possibility of getting our new flooring down on this Thursday and Friday. “Why on earth not?”, we thought. Not content with having just the newly developed kitchen-diner done,…

There had been some debate as to how long our “Structural Addition” would take to harden before it was ready to accept our new “push-fit” induction hob. [No longer are there clamps positioned beneath the lower surface of the worktop…