Carpenter boy

Our house has very strange designs mainly the open tread staircase (which apparently allows light through so that the hall is brighter).. and some really strange swirly ugly old fashioned ceiling plaster.

Apparently it was the trend during the 80's (which was when our house was built).

Actually, thinking about it, the stairs in my home in Ipoh were also open tread and I remember my mum telling me about my dad laying carpet over it so I wouldn't fall through the holes while I was young.

The man was very proud of what he did for his daughter.. what I didn't get though was his choice of carpet colour! It was dark red :P Bleah...

Thankfully the husband had a better idea and instead of just putting carpet over the open treads we filled it up with a plank of wood supported by some wooden sticks on the back of it.

Almost done!

 

Handsome carperter boy..

Obviously, a proper carpenter might have been able to stick those sticky things in a straight line.. hehe.. unfortunately I was doing them and as long as they stay where they are.. I'm not fussed.

Plus.. we are eventually going to put in an understairs storage area so all that ugly work is going to be covered up.

Another job we've done with the help of Mike and Juan is this

Mike and his favourite tool.. that man is destructive!

We also put in solar lights upstairs in the corridor and bathroom as it was very dark. Will put the pictures up someday.. we paid to have them put up instead of doing it ourselves though.. It involved climbing up to the roof and cutting holes so we figured 2 clumsy fat people up there wouldn't be the smartest thing to do!

Haha..