Sunday, January 09, 2005

For the last year or so I've been a bit of a Do-It-Yourself Rut and haven't been able to force myself into any real home improvement action. The dining room has stood with half it's wallpaper striped off for months now and the last real decorating I actually got off my arse to do was when I sorted the new office out about a year ago.

Other than simply not being bothered one of the main reasons that I've not been doing much to tart up the house is because of our forthcoming plans to extend the house; which will, obviously, cause a few rooms to be trashed in the process. What's the point of decorating a room or re-flooring one if in six months all the hard work will have been wiped out when the builders come in and smash everything to pieces?

Today we've decided that realisiticly it's gonna take us until 2006 before we're ready to have any of our major building plans realised and so we've bitten the bullet and committed ourselves to doing some work in the living room. Having lived with the previous owner's choice of carpet for five years it's time to put something nicer on the floor, deal with the horrible fireplace and give the room a fresh coat of paint.

In the long term we're going to take out the whole fireplace and replaster the walls, but (and this is quite a big but) one of the two extension ideas we have will involve demo-ing half the living room and so there's no point spending big money on replastering walls that will have to be re-replastered.

We've ordered the flooring today and David got the tools out and attacked the horrible fireplace hearth which has been hidden under a pile of white pebbles since day one. David loves demoing stuff... it must be in his genes. The flooring will be here in a couple of weeks and it'll give us an incentive to get new skirting boards fitted and the walls painted before it arrives at the end of the month.

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