Lounge

In June 2021, as we moved in, the lounge had quite a lot of furniture in it but also a huge amount of potential. We use this room as our main accommodation and use it for eating, studying, relaxing and anything else throughout the day. 

We have put curtains up, installed insulation under the solid wood floor that we found when the carpet was ripped up and stopped the chimney leaking by having the top removed and brought inside the house. No more rain into the lounge. We have also removed the storage heaters, replaced with panel heaters which turned out to be very expensive to run and then replaced with infrared heating. This we will put into the ceiling when we renovate so you can't even see it. It is much cheaper to run than the portable heaters.

We will have the rest of the chimney removed and then floor to ceiling sliding glass doors installed to open up the view in 2024. The study furniture we are going to be putting into Bedroom 4 we think before that happens and then where the study is now will become a TV area and the lounge will be Kyles viewing area.  Looking forward to that immensely.

Before clearance

Other people's clutter

Completely cleared looking from the church end towards the hallway to the kitchen

Completely cleared, looking from the hallway by the kitchen towards the church end

Tried the table down the far end

Found it was better in the middle of the room

Study area in the kitchen end of the 10m length room

Lounge in the church end of the full room