And the winner is...............

After a monumental effort, and my son-in-law coming to the rescue, all the painting is finished in the main area!  Which is just as well as the carpet layers are arriving tomorrow to start, naturally enough, laying the carpet!  'We' also had to clean the slab as thoroughly as possible as apparently the underlay needs to be bonded to a nice clean slab.  And it's done, finished, complete!!  

The only other thing remaining to be done in this area is to stain and install the architrave around the two windows and then start building the layouts!!

Obviously I'm very excited that finally this stage has been reached.  I'll post some more photos once the carpet is down.