Showing posts with label Timber Flooring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timber Flooring. Show all posts

Thursday, April 4, 2013

House Tour : Mezzanine Floor

We have created an extra space, or rather an extra floor to the house.  It's another floor after the 2nd floor.  Typically in Malaysia, when you say you live in a double storey home, you just say, downstairs and upstairs. So I suppose you can say that we created another floor after the upstairs and this would make our home a 2.5 storey home ...

We loving call this the "M Floor", M for Mezzanine.  It's basically an open space where the TV and library are. This is also a place where the children can sleep when guest use their rooms.  They just love it up there, it's like 'camping' they said.  

It's also has a small little storage area in the roof.  Yes, you read right! Our store room is IN THE ROOF!

Can't visualize?  Well, I think I'll photo blog this post!

Before renovation, the upstairs and landing area
Before renovation, the upstairs and landing area,
will eventually lead up to the M Floor
During renovation, the M Floor in the making
During renovation, from down looking up
During renovation, the 'raw' M Floor
During renovation, the M Floor being screed
Overview of the M Floor, the 2 windows faces the backyard
The M Floor with walls painted in lilac
The M Floor with the timer flooring,  if you can see a
little entrance on the left, that is the door to the store room
which is also the roof
View when standing at the staircase, we later fixed the railing
The timber flooring at the M Floor has been varnished
The personal library being organised

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

House Tour : Landing

Before you enter into the bedrooms, you'll find yourself in the landing area.  Normally, the landing area is for catered as a family hall.  Older houses have bigger landing area thus where the TV area is.  Unfortunately, newer houses don't have that luxury.  

Initially we have decided to put a comfortable rattan chair with a lamp and a small bookshelf for light reading.  However, now sits an old beautiful cupboard that I inherited from my Granny.  Above this cupboard, I place my altar.  Unfortunately this area is still in the cleaning up process, so no 'AFTER' photos can be show just yet.

We'll just leave you with the photos when they did the flooring and hopefully you'll be able to visualize the size of this landing.

The original landing with built in cabinets
During renovation, the right hand of this picture is the entrance to the 
Master Bedroom,  left hand side is the entrance to 
the Girl's and Boys' Room
The timer flooring in the process of installation