2024 August
     After the bathroom vinyl sheet flooring was in place, it was now time to paint the walls. First I used masking tape to attach old newspaper to the vinyl sheet to prevent paint spills. Also cardboard was laid on the foor to help protect it. Then I used the angled paint brush to cut in all the edges, but only as high as I could reach up the walls. 

     Due to a bad knee I am unable to climb up a ladder, so I had to get Josh to help with the cutting in for the top part of the walls. Below you can see the part of the wall which is above the shower-bath.

     Then it was time for the first coat of paint, which is undercoat. The job looks awful at this point but that's ok because it's kind of meant to.

     The second coat of paint is the first coat of proper paint, and we used the same colour Twill that we used for the rest of the house. The paint we chose is able to be used in the normal part of the house as well as bathroom areas. You can see a lantern and a lamp in the below picture, as it is quite difficult to see how good the paint coverage as for each successive coat. The third and final coat of paint is the hardest as it is a very subtle visual difference.

Then in October I was painting the internal doors. We bought these doors from Bunnings. They are quite large and so I cleared the dining table and set them up on pieces of wood so that I could paint each side and the edges as easily as possible.

     First the undercoat - then the first coat of proper paint, then the second coat of proper paint, then a third coat just to give it a nice strong finish. Each coat needing time to dry, and then the door turned over to do the other side. And not forgetting the edges! As a contract to the Twill colour walls, the doors were finished with a black colour paint. These were very difficult to photograph, since they were at the same time very dark but very shiny!

     There were two doors which needed to be painted black, one for each of the bedrooms. Once the paint was finished, then it was time to add the hinges and the door handle, and hang them in their door frame. We actually only got one door hung at this point.

     Then in November it was back to finishing the bathroom. The basin, washing machine and laundry tub were all carefully placed, and the holes were screwed in the back of the basin vanity cupboard to match the water pipes coming in through the house walls.

     Then the S-bend for the laundry tub was connected.

     And also the S-bend for the hand basin.

     The bathroom is getting closer to finished!