griffo68
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Many of you have seen my flat before before but yesterday I at last found the pics we took when we first viewed it in May 2001 and when we moved in in July 2001!!!
See the original threads here....
http://www.livingetc.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/891/an/0/page/2#891
http://www.livingetc.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/845/an/0/page/3#845
http://www.livingetc.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/63241/an/0/page/1#63241
So here goes (sick bags are not supplied!)......
The sofas in the pics below were david's which he bought from DFS brfore we met!!!! They were actually more cerise in real life!!!
It took me over two years to talk him into getting rid of them...he loved them!!!!!!!
The wall behind the computer is the one we took down and the kitchen is beyond it. I thoroughly enjoyed smashing down the coving! David wanted to keep it!
Yes the wallpaper in the lounge is the one which imbedded with glitter!!!!!
The pink shagpile was sooooooo thick and all faded by the patio doors!
The dark area on the right of the first pic below is the hallway at the bottom of the stairs, it was so dark and gloomy and the walls just had to come down!
The wall behing the TV in the second pic below is the grey wall which now has the plasma on it.....
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griffo68
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THE KITCHEN!!!!!
It came complete with office styley ceiling, "farmhouse units" and tiles which had copper pots and onions on them! The oven and hob was chocolate brown.
Also a pic of what is now my minimal bathroom which also had an office ceiling......
Hallway and then up the stairs to the landing.....
Bathroom which is now David's office (all the plumbing is hiiden away so it can be converted back easily) and the spare room....
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griffo68
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The main bedroom complete with raised area for the bed!!!!  
We tripped over it so many times when we were drunk! LOL!   !
The en-suite had a lovely gold shower which was a death trap.....
The loft complete with yet more swirly artex on the ceiling and pink shagpile!....
I will update with more recent pics (including the loft which I am doing at the moment) soon.
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susan14
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I am a bit confused....why did you change it when it was soooo lush!!!
PD would be lost in bad taste [****] if you hadn't married him hahaha!
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susan14
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oh you can't say h.e.l.l....
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griffo68
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FPMSL! No comment.....
I don't know why we got rid of those gorgeous ruched curtains/blinds in the lounge!????
The seller offered for us to buy the light fittings and the furniture!
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nick_cee
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Griffo I hadnt realised what a fab view you had before the new building work, you must have been furious!!!!
Gosh wasnt it pink and fluffy, do you have any pics of after you changed all the doors in the kitchen?
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kladoink
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aaaarrgh my eyes!!
feck me that's hideous!
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likklesis
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OMFG Bigbro I had forgotten just how bosted the flat was.... so much shagpile, so dark and cramped and small???!!
The basta^d sofas, the bedroom 'stage', and you have never even shown me the extensive ruching before, christ it is a good job you have vision!!!! 
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nick_cee
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LS is right it is so much bigger and more open and spacious now, and mon dieu, that stage!!!!!
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noodle
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Oh!
Oh dear!
Oh dear, oh dear , oh dear
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likklesis
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My eyes, the artex - are you sure it didn't spread down the walls!!!???
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susan14
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I honestly think that it is THE worst 'before' set of photos that have ever been posted! I love that you didn't rip up the pink carpet straight away.....davids sofa fitted right in!!! what were the previous people thinking!!!
can't wait to see what you did to the place 
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griffo68
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Thank you for the compliment of it being the worst before pics ever susan! LOL!
We moved in on July 3rd and the carpet was up and the laminate down by the end of August!
The walls were stripped and painted white by August as well.
Oh and the coving was ripped down and the artex ceilings had been plastered over by then as well!
If you have a look at the four bigger pics with David's pink sofas on the last one with the dining table in it you can see the very first bit of work I did on the flat!
There is a bit of coving missing in the middle of the pic and a hammer on the table! LOL!
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griffo68
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Yes the view was much better before all of the building work n_c!!!
We can still see the sea.....just!  
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griffo68
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N_c....I don't think I have any pics of the kitchen when I changed the kitchen doors.
I made the doors using MDF and painted them grey.
I also painted the tiles white and covered up the vile tiled floor with a greyish flooring like the one I'm having in the loft.
I made over the kitchen in the September because I just couldn't live with it any longer!
Friends came to see the flat and they were horrified when I said I was ditching the farmhouse doors, they said it was french and very expensive (it was because I found the label inside one of the cupboards), the next day the doors were in the skip!
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007Charmz
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I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE SEEN ANYTHING AS HIDEOUS AS THOSE SOFA's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I actually LOL (all my colleagues now want to see what Im LOL @), POOR D in deedy, what was he thinking?????
I must say Supreme I admire you for seeing past all that!
I cant stop scrolling up to look! THIS should win a prize!!
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007Charmz
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I bet the pink lil stool (in the toilet) and toilet seat coverS were made from left over carpet!!! FUGLICIOUS!!!!!
Edited by 007Charmz (21/05/2009 14:35)
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007Charmz
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Its not a seat cover its the mat. HECK the old bats obviously loved Pink, just like Katie Price!! I cant stop myself from looking! hahahahahahahahaha This is funny!
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likklesis
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I know exactly what you mean Charmz, Bigbro phoned me earlier and I couldn't speak to him properly because I kept scrolling over the images PMSL!!!
Both of us worked on PD for months to get rid of those horrific sofa's, he did love them so!!! 
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