The journey continues: visible progress

Right, time for a wee update! It's been long enough. A lot's happened since my last post, so much, in fact, that I'm cautiously optimistic we'll be ready for the kitchen when it arrives next week. But see for yourselves.

The kitchen at the end of August/beginning of September:

 Brick walls and cable spaghetti.

 Yay, cables, sockets AND a flue! And a random ladder. :)

 Our shoe rack is going to go where the door used to be.

 More cable spaghetti and a shiny new brick wall. The wall at the far end is going to be demolished, to create a passage to the living room. (See the second to last photo for a look at the other side of that wall)

Some of the light switches have been put in place.

 Amazing, how many sockets you need in a kitchen!

Then, the next job was waiting:  plastering the walls!
The first part was expertly done by my boyfriend's dad.

 Ta-daa! Plaster on the wall. These are the most recent pictures.

 A rather lovely panorama of the kitchen.

 Beams for the soon-to-be suspended ceiling and  a properly insulated hatch with a ladder to get upstairs.

 The kitchen floor was sagging badly and needed a bit of support.

 Welcome to the construction site!

 I tried to clean the floor a bit to see the real tile colours.

 Mess!! Constructive chaos in the kitchen.

 A view from our kitchen window. Sunday breakfast looking out at trees and fields? Yes, please! :)

 The bricks are almost gone.

This is actually the other side of that white brick wall, currently a small corridor leading from what will be our living room to the bathroom.

And finally, some tiles we might want to use as a splashback. Decisions, decisions!