Bookcases in beech proved a little difficult to find; an oak finish is quite common but not so beech. We did eventually find some in beech at Nobis Education Furniture. Furthermore, there was a narrow [400mm], tall [1800mm] unit that…

In order of conception, the first of our side projects was the cloakroom – oh, all right, call a spade a spade: the downstairs loo. [It’s so small there’s absolutely no room for any cloaks, anyway.] Having decided to continue…

Once we’d decided to continue our ground floor flooring into the cloakroom, .a.k.a. downstairs loo, it was but a short step to decide also to continue it into the utility room. Thus the utility room became side project B. After…

In the time lottery of our completed side projects, next up is my Man Cave. Yay! Some good news on Remembrance Day. It was looking a bit bare last time, though it did have its smart new oak wood-effect flooring.…

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…