Craft room renovations

I've been so excited for this day!  All of the Ikea furniture for my craft room has arrived.  It came in two deliveries, one smaller box from DPD with small items, and then a much larger truck with BIG boxes.  The lovely delivery guys took them all the way into the kitchen for us.  Why the kitchen, you ask?  Well it's about the only room left in the house with any space.  The plan was to build the furniture in the kitchen, then once the floor is finished in the craft room, all the furniture can be moved in. [...]

Alcoves are done!  They've built them exactly as I wanted, leaving space along the left hand side wall where the Kallax units will go, and an equal space along the right.  For anyone in school being fed up doing maths, can I just say that a LOT of measuring and calculations have gone into building these alcoves!  We don't have equal space on either side of the fireplace, so the question was whether to have identical alcoves and different sizes of space along the walls, or equal space on the walls and different sizes of alcoves. For questions like [...]

The fireplace wall is now insulated and boarded, and we're ready to build the alcoves.  I suppose this is as good a time as any to make a confession: I thought we'd find alcoves that had been boarded up in the wall.  Our house is a very old house, from 1906.  On our street there are two or three other houses that are built using the same design as ours.  Two of these have been split to make smaller houses, so it's hard to tell which ones have original features or not.  When we go for walks down the [...]

The back wall where the fireplace is now being lined and insulated.  Honestly, this room is going to be so heat-efficient by the time we've finished with it!  There's special fireproof plasterboard going in next to the fire, so we can get a fire fitted there at some point in the future if we choose.  I really don't want to do work now and have to re-do it all over again in a few years time.