I mentioned in the last post about the Kitchen that we'd started the plastering, that was finished earlier this week and is drying out quite nicely, in fact most areas are now dry the dampest area seems to be the curve but that has had two layers. 
Visitors seem determined to give me a heart attack in there as every person I've spoke to so far has reached out a hand and made a move to lean on the freshly plastered slightly damp walls (que my movie style slow motion "NOOOOOOOOOOO")

Don't touch the walls!

The second leap in progress in there is that we now have power and lights!  Switching on the lights in a room you've had no power in for months is a great moment and really helps bring the room to life even though there's no furniture in there.  Power cables have also been run through to the island area so the next step is to get the screed done to level out the floor ready for dressing up.

Power cables for the Island

Today was a big day for the kitchen as we started plastering (we've been dying to get to this stage), this is the room that we started work in and made little progress in since, the last two weeks have seen some really big changes and it's coming on leaps and bounds now.


In the beginning the kitchen was a small cramped L-shaped area with every square inch clad in knotty pine and I'm literally talking every where...ceiling, walls, cupboards, the place looked more like a sauna than a kitchen.  Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the kitchen before we started stripping it out as we were quite eager to make a start.
Behind the cladding revealed some really scary electrical diy work and some slightly unstable walls between the next two rooms (corridor and toilet/shower room) so it was time to bring in the professionals.