The Lounge Before When we moved into this house our favourite room was the lounge. When our home was a pub, many years ago, this room would have been the main bar area. It is quite a large room with lots of windows, a set of patio doors and a huge fireplace. The decor wasn't to our taste and was quite outdated. It had heavily embossed wallpaper and brown patterned carpets. The ceiling looked like it had been skimmed with a sweeping brush and the plastering had more ripples than a river. There was also a huge, wheelchair size, mobility lift in the centre of the room that could take you from the lounge to an upstairs bedroom. Removing a mobility lift The first job we had to get done was to remove the lift, replace ceiling joists and plasterboard the large hole where the lift went through. Our DIY skills don't span to this so we had to get a professional in. Once the lift was removed and all the apertures made safe we were then able to get on with the proje
Transforming our new home