The project
Our living and dining room remodel has enabled us to achieve an open plan kitchen, dining and living space that opens up to a large outdoor entertaining area.
Included in this redo, we have incorporated a daring black sub-feature wall, with our feature being the Messmate timber panels behind the TV.
We have used a concrete dining table with bench seats plus a floating wall shelf to accentuate our "country-industrial" style. We have continued using the Senso vinyl floor planks in Rustic Walnut that leads us to our newly installed sliding door where we bring outside in.
Steps
Step 1
This starts the demolition of two walls leading from our kitchen through to the pokey sunroom adjoining the laundry. This was a massive task and we certainly endured lots of blood, sweat and tears (and blisters).
the hideous pantry that was part of the kitchen
another wall gone
Bye Bye ugly laundry
And we have an open plan
Step 2
Knocking out the internal walls was a challenge but certainly no comparison to the brick external wall. We had to put up a massively large and heavy steel lintel to prevent the roof from caving in. We used a demo saw with a diamond tip blade to cut the bricks. Super messy job!
eatly stages of knocking out this external wall. Glenno is pretty darn clever!!
New sliding door
Step 3
Plastering time. It's a tough gig removing the old horsehair plaster. In fact, it's a tough gig doing anything with plaster, hanging, joining, sanding (definitely not our favourite reno jobs). We also added more of the Senso vinyl flooring to match up with the previous kitchen reno.
Plastering Fun
As long as you have a ladder and a Kirby Vacuum Cleaner then anyone can plaster (haha)!
Step 4
Taubmans Low Sheen - Trendy
A sneak peak at our Messmate Timber Batons
Step 5
Voila! Our living and dining space is all complete. Hope you like the end result. We love it!
Whoever said opposites attract was on the money - Heather the cow brings lots of colour and fun to our room while our gorgeous Budha offers calmness and tranquility. We have continued the use of black, concrete and timber features to tie in with our other renos.
