I’ve been a homeowner for over 5 weeks now. I’ve owned a
house for 40 days. It feels long and short at the same time. So much has
happened since
this, but at the same time we’re a long way off where we want to be.
I want to keep you all up to date with the house progress,
but at the same time I don’t want to keep showing you crazy piles of rubble.
Rubble isn’t that interesting. So I thought I’d go for key highlights we’ve
had, as well as the key highlights we can’t wait for!
With photos of course.
Over the last 4 weeks the work we’re doing to the house has
changed from ‘new kitchen plus a partial rewire’ to ‘major renovation’.
Our key highlights over the last week include:
- Ordering
Dominoes to the Town Gardens by our house during a DIY break, and scoffing
while sunning ourselves and getting stared at by strangers.
- The turning
point when our kitchen wall finally came down, and that little buzz of excitement
we both felt as we might be finally getting somewhere!
- When our
Electrician Steve finished the first round of re-wiring.
- My herb
seedlings starting to poke through!
- When our
neighbours brought our bin back from the pavement after bin day for us (making
friends)
- Rays Ice
Cream
- Managing to
save £400 on some new ceiling steels (winning)
- Also not
house related, but our friends Jen and Sion welcomed their baby girl Molly into
the world last week! We are so thrilled and over the moon for them and we
cannot wait to meet her! Congratulations guys!
Other moments we’re looking forward to:
- Having a
working, flushable toilet back (hooray)
- The luxury
of running water (seriously)
- Getting our
walls and ceilings plastered, patching up all the holes and beginning to paint!
- Not having
a skip constantly on the driveway (number 3 arrives this week)
- Getting our
kitchen floor fitted and not traipsing over rubble everyday! (sorry shoes)
- Also, more
Dominoes
We also cannot wait for:
- Having our
family and friends come and visit!! (Sorry guys! We miss you!)
- Sitting on
our sofa watching TV (nature documentaries, you knows it)
- Cooking in
our kitchen with my freshly grown herbs
You may have noticed my ‘eating out’ and weekend adventure
posts have slowly ground to a halt. This is as depressing for me as it is for
you. This is mostly because the majority of time James and I are out of work,
we’re at the house doing DIY.
What about weekends? At the house doing DIY.
No
eating out? Only Dominoes and a one off Subway.
Can’t you blog about those? I
sure could. We both get the same flavour every time though, and I’m fairly sure
blogging about Dominoes will probably get tired really fast… (sorry Dominoes, I
take it back, I love you)
But don’t worry, I’ll keep trying to entertain you with wonderful DIY updates and tutorials and hopefully we can still be friends.
