We are floored

Flawed and floored....

This past weekend Mark had a seroius case of getting the DIY bit between his teeth, and our last bastion of major house chaos was tackled.
The Study.
No lead piping, no Professor Plum, just...
The Study.
Here is a picture of it before we had building work last year....study is this side of the arch, Anna's bedroom on the other side.

This is the 'After' picture showing the same view, but with a new dividing wall and doorway...

And looking from the hall through that new doorway, you get the full impact of what we found under the pink stripey wallpaper....

Lovely, isn't it?  Sadly there is no 'Before' picture showing the accumulated junk that was in there - it took us 1/2 a day to rehouse it all before we started to fill and skim the walls....sand (cough cough), refill, skim and sand again (cough again)...paint, refill the bits we missed....etc.etc. etc.

Then we began flooring with the leftovers from the hall and kitchen. Here is the very last hole to be floored:

after 500 sq m of flooring that gap was very significant to us!!! 

Here is Mark ceremonially placing the final board...(We are left with just 8 boards - not bad efficiency!)

  

Does he look pleased with himself,?

Here lies Pharoah Crowbar...

It was an exhausting weekend, but we now have a functional study....which I am sitting in to type this. It is serene and clean, and we love it.
Next job is to make endless book shelves so all our boxes of school books etc. can come down from the attic. Ah! The anticipation of being able to find things again after a year of being flummoxed!