New living room and office space

The new room is looking almost ready to use. Photos of the renovation and construction are here.

Fitting the flooring anywhere close to the wavy walls has been very difficult. Ben has done a marvellous job.

There's still quite a lot of work to be done: put the rail on the stairs, cover the edges of the flooring, fit the sockets and wiring, fix the walls around the sockets, apply another coat of varnish, cover the steps with something (bamboo or tiles, not sure which) and sort out the join with the kitchen door.

I don't know what to do about the kitchen entrance. It would look better to remove the grotty old door and surround (put in as a temporary measure by the owner-before-last) and just have an archway between the kitchen and living room, but it's perhaps not practical from the point of view of heating - although the big fireplace in the kitchen is more than adequate for the kitchen itself, and could possibly heat both. There's also the question of sound insulation, keeping cooking and preparation noise away from rehearsal space. An archway, with perhaps a curtain, would look gorgeous, though.

The floor won't join up easily, either. Owner-before-last bought enough tiles (which I bought off last owner) to do the whole of the ground floor, and only got as far as doing the kitchen; but now there is bamboo flooring in the middle it might look odd going from one to the other.