Saying Goodbye To The Womble Room.

 We have been  busy bees recently.  When we built our dwelling in 2003 my dad often remarked that we should make an arch way between the Kitchen and the Living ("Front Room"). Instead we lived in the kitchen with the range, dresser, television, sink...?  In essence it was a kitchen/diner.   You know eat your "Tea"/ "Dinner" off the coffee table.

The other week we decided to get out the Kango and create some dust and make the two rooms into a marriage.  No more "Junk room", "hello "Front room",  "hello" Kitchen".

We have obviously watched too many episodes of A Place In The Sun and Location, Location, Location and took their omnipotent advice.  We knocked the bloody wall down.  Well part of it any road!

Domino before the arch way.

Who else has pictures of tractors on their walls?  We did.

Number one son busy kangoing.  I was the trusty labourer complete with trusty shovel and wheelbarrow.   Mrs Northsider helped too and number two son helped me with the furniture.

Front room with new arch and laminate flooring and newly painted and plaster patched up.  We've just got to place the small stove in the chimney place.  Number one son built the stone platform for the stove and laid the laminate flooring.

The new kitchen.  Well new to us.   We now  have a new arch way and we sit at a proper table not at a  coffee table.  We are no longer couch potatoes.  You can see the black flu of the multi fuelled range.  Notice the red back wall.   

My dear old mum bought us those chairs when we first built our little home in the countryside next to the sea.  Hope they are both looking down from Heaven and seeing that we finally took my dad's advice and made the arch.  I need to make a new "Junk" room.