One floor down, 3 floors to go ..

Due to (mainly) lack of funds, we were 3 months finishing the living room, longer than I planned, but it's done now and we're pleased! (The only planned change is to paint the fireplace surround chalky downs instead of ivory so it will blend more with the skirting boards, that's tomorrows job ...)

Before:

After:

The ground floor hallway floor is also "semi-sorted", but eventually the stairs will be painted completely ivory, spotlights fitted (when the 1st floor carpets are being ripped up) and stair runners fitted .. but we won't be doing that until after the lower ground floor work is completed, so here is what it looks like now (7 coats of varnish later!)