One Room Done / House Extension Week 15

A sparsely furnished room with beige and dark green walls, grey carpet flooring, three power sockets on one wall, and a ceiling light with a wireframe lampshade—one room done in this house extension project.
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We’ve finished one room!!! 

A week of wrapping up the jobs inside the house. Things like hanging the new doors and handles! We’ve always had white doors, so we thought we would mix it up and have the oak ones hung instead this time. 

A wooden door is partially open, revealing a tiled wall inside a room. A large rectangular mirror on the adjacent wall reflects part of the open door and some frames, hinting at recent room refurbishment. A wooden door with vertical panels and a gold-coloured handle, ideal for a room refurbishment. Beige tiled wall is visible on the left side of the image.

We started to get walls painted and lights hung! 

A room renovation in progress features white walls, a covered light fitting, folded stepladder, paint tins, and a table with decorating supplies—an active scene of home improvement with an unfinished floor and scattered items.

The appliances came from the kitchen company that went into liquidation, so I needed to source new appliances. Harder than you think as quite a lot of places were running out of stock. 

A new dishwasher with protective blue film and labels is partially installed between two wooden kitchen cupboards under a window, hinting at room renovation. Some wooden planks and tools are on the worktop.

The electrician was here all week installing the new lights and getting those up. It’s so nice to see the bits coming together, but at the same time I don’t like it as we should have our pretty coloured kitchen doors on and things would work nicely. But with the fake oak units, it just doesn’t work. But it will all come together soon enough. 

A kitchen under construction in a new house extension, with wooden cupboards being installed, an oven in place, loose wiring, a work light, and unpainted walls. There’s a window, door to the outside, and no worktops fitted yet—room not done.

I spent 2 hours cleaning down the windows and doors in the back room, they were covered in dirt, plaster and paint.

A set of white double glass doors opens to a patio and garden area on a rainy day. A cloth, filling knife, and bottle on the wooden floor suggest ongoing home renovation or cleaning work in the new room.

WORKTOP TEMPLATING happened!! I was very grateful that the worktop company could fit us in again at short notice. So they came along and measured everything up. 

A partially assembled kitchen in a house extension features wooden cupboards, an open drawer, and a sink being fitted. A laser measuring device on a tripod and a tablet are set up nearby. Large windows show a garden outside as the room nears completion.

They started the driveway, digging out all the old concrete and levelling off the mud. Filling it with scalpings. 

A construction site in a residential area shows a small orange digger, piles of earth and gravel, stacked bags of building material, bins, and parked cars in the background—signs of a house extension project underway before the room is finished.

First time I had seen my house without much in front of it since it’s been built! 

A muddy front garden is being prepared for landscaping or building work, possibly as part of a house extension, with a small orange digger, two wheelbarrows, and loose bricks in front of a brick house with white windows and doors.

Skirting boards going in! This really finished off the room getting these in. I was gifted these by Skirting World who have so many different designs to pick from. We went for ones that had more detail and height on than our last ones. Now I just need to fill them and start painting them all!! 

A close-up of a room corner in a house extension shows freshly fitted white skirting boards along the bottom of light grey walls, with unfinished flooring and tools nearby—one room done, more to go.

Carpet time for Tylers room!!! 

Carpet Barn has so many offcuts to pick from and Tylers room is a lovely square room that Kev can easily fit a carpet in. So a offcut is perfect. We managed to pick up a carpet that was really good quality for a great price. 

Tylers finished room ready to be filled! He is over the moon with it and can’t wait to fill it up with all his things. 

The driveway blocks arrived! 

More appliances arrived!! I’m so excited to have a large fridge and a large freezer, we won’t have to struggle anymore for space when the shop arrives!! It also means we can batch cook and freeze up some dinners to make it easier on weekdays. 

The downside of glass doors is the poor electrician has spent the day with the dog watching his every move!!!

We got an old piece of worktop from the old kitchen and placed it on there so we could use it to place the food shop on!!

Also used it to dish dinner up on!! Look we have a space that we can place 5 dinner plates!!! 

Plumbing in the utility room sink so we can get it up and running and have running tap water downstairs! I won’t need to carry everything up and down the stairs to the bathroom sink! 

All installed and ready to wash up! 

This was our old kitchen units and sink, we kept it and it works perfectly in this space. 

I’m loving the light that this room has, I think I will be spending quite a lot of time in this room as it’s so sunny and easily look out the doors into the garden. 

So I have a lot of painting left to do! We thought we would be in the backroom and using it by the end of this week but things didn’t get done in time. So we’re spending the weekend before Christmas decorating, then moving the kitchen out of the lounge and start using this room for ourselves! 

Head over to my Instagram or Facebook where you can follow daily updates and stories to see behind the scenes each week. I’m really enjoying sharing this build and I hope it gives you an idea on what goes on when building an extension if your ever thinking of having one yourself. 

 

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28 Comments

  1. Jaimie Reply

    Your home looks amazing – you can really see it coming together now! Good luck with the rest of the renovations.

  2. Lauretta Reply

    Steph – it’s wonderful how you’ve documented this – and in years to come you can look back and see what you’ve achieved. Your home is looking amazing – and as a fellow interiors fan, it’s inspired me to declutter my home and update it this year – so thank you! I know we follow each other on social, but I felt it was about time I caught up with you on the blog! Happy New Year to you and yours and let’s hope we get plenty achieved this year! xx

  4. Jennifer Gladwin Reply

    You can really see it all coming together, you must be so excited! all your hard work is paying off.

  7. Sarah Howe Reply

    Oh wow, after all the weeks and months following this, it’s really done! Looks amazing and I’m sure with the final bits and bobs, it will look fabulous!

  8. Sabina Green Reply

    Such an achievement, it looks great. Well done all, you are almost there! Just think what if will feel like to have it all finished soon.

  9. Amy - All about a Mummy Reply

    We have just finished our renovation and I feel you! It’s all looking fab and will look amazing when you get the kitchen doors on – makes so much difference.

    • Steph Post Author Reply

      Thanks, I can’t wait to get the doors on, it just feels so unfinished with them not on. Grrrr to the kitchen company!

  10. MELANIE EDJOURIAN Reply

    Oh wow. You’ve made so much progress with the work. That’s great, I bet the dog enjoyed watching the electrician. Who doesn’t like a bit of live entertainment once in a while lol.

  11. Victoria Reply

    This looks fab! I love house renovations and seeing the progress. You guys have done it so well. Can’t wait to see how it all looks when completed!

  12. Karen Legge Reply

    Wow. It’s really coming together. I can’t imagine how satisfying it must be! What a nightmare with the appliance company. I hope you weren’t left out of pocket.

    • Steph Post Author Reply

      It was the whole kitchen company which was even worse but we stamped out foot and managed somehow to get our money back!

  13. Sarah Stockley Reply

    Yay, well done. It is such a feeling of achievement to finish a room. We are permanently decorating here, but I managed to get some painting done at the beginning of the week and it felt so good.

    • Steph Post Author Reply

      It’s great when it’s done isn’t it and you can look back it’s a job done

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