Saturday, July 24, 2010

....as you can see!
In this picture we have removed the railings. We have plans to put a nice piece of mahogany on the wall to make a long table and put stools on the balcony to the right to make a nice seating area rather than having lots of individual tables. This is much more cost effective and also a little different! Plus it makes the outside look a lot more spacious and open....
As you come up the stairs leading to the restaurant and you keep walking along the side this is what you see. Now the building you can see there is actually two hotel rooms which were included within our lease. Initially we were not going to do anything with them as of yet however as the kitchen is too small for Geoff then we are going to turn the first bedroom into a kitchen and know the wall through that faces the entrance to the restaurant to make it an open plan kitchen. So watch this space for pictures of that!

Friday, July 23, 2010


And now for the floor. Guess what colour? Yep - green!
Curtain poles. Finishing touches. We are not actually having curtains but when we do what we plan on doing with them then I wil post pictures
and you will see!
And the cubicle doors in the ladies and the gents we had replaced so they are plain wood. The ones you can see here are from the ladies.
Just finishes it off nicely.
Looks a bit like a shower, doesn't it??
We decided that as well as tiling around the sinks in the toilets we would tile around the urinal to make it a) look nicer and b) to give it a 'splash guard'.
Around the stud wall and the storage door and that is where they came to a halt temporarily. We intend for the guys to go all around the toilets as soon as the plumber has fixed one of the toilets as it was leaking when we rented the place. Luckily the landlady is nice and agreed to fix it!
And some more inside the booth area on the left
More face board.
We now have face board (AKA skirting board) around the bottom to stop mop-marks dirtying the bottom of the wall. It just finishes off the walls too we think and looks a lot tidier!
And this is the outside. Not sure if you can even tell but the outside has half been painted. The cream stops at the top of our stairs by the first window nearest the right. We need a ladder to complete the rest! We plan on the bottom right wall alongside the outside seating to be white to fit in with the rest of the building.
The outside painted cream and black. This has only had one coat of cream so far so will look more prominent when the second is on.
And the balcony looking in the other direction.

The balcony looking towards the kitchen
The view from the entrance.
The painting of the walls is complete!