Stewart Priest

We’re In

// July 6th, 2010 // DIY

Those of you who are following the progress of our new home may be interested to know that we now have the keys. We’re not quite moved in, but SWMBO has decreed that we MUST be in by 17 July as she ‘has people coming to stay’. Nothing quick like piling on the pressure, is there?

Anyway, we got the keys on 30 June, and we’ve already demolished the living room. At this point I have to thank a few people; Gael, Robert, Craig, Andrew, Gordon, Jen: THANK YOU. Without you all, we would still have a crappy concrete/faux marble fireplace & entertainment centre with arches which would put the Vatican to shame. Thanks to you, we had a nice bomb site:

(that’s Robert & Gael, in case you were interested)

Well, it was a bomb site until Gael, Jen and I got all the rubble into bags and Robert and I got it all to the dump. Thanks for getting the van, Robert! Things look a whole lot better now the rubble has vanished, and Jen got to use her new Dyson DC24. The carpet is now spotless:

Now all I’ve got to do is get the new wood frame up, the cables run, get a couple of spurs from my sockets, get the plasterboard up, get it plastered, change the carpet, paint, get the curtains up, get the furniture in and we’ll be laughing. Easy enough? *sigh*