The Dining Room Begins

We took advantage of the four day Easter weekend to get started on the dining room - and what a start it has been. So far we have encountered a dead rat under the floorboards (puke) an army of house flies (courtesy of deceased rat) a bit of a leaking shower which actually wasn't a big deal, and also a hissing sound from behind the boarded up old gas fire.. hmmm. So it's gas off until that gets looked at. Cold water showers here I come!

But enough trials and tribulations, how about some progress shots! We started of by making a plan...

So here is our dining room on Friday morning - a perfectly okay room but we wanted to redecorate and it needed a rewire - plus we want some fancy electrics such as ceiling speakers (disco anyone?) and the our favourite - spotlights, plus moving sockets and switches etc. (Note to all, J is an electrician, a legit, qualified, does it for a living type electrician, so please remember that he is not a DIYer and I probably wouldn't recommend you giving this a go - like I might recommend you dabbling with some crochet).

But back to business.. our dining room before....

Before we started we broke out some old bedding to act as dust sheets.. a wise move.

And our dining room right now (Monday night) - it might be surprising that there has been significant progress when actually it looks like a thousand rhinos had a party, then we were robbed and finally a bomb hit.

I do always find we get to this point and then sit a cry in the corner, but it feels better this time, because this time I have seen it happen three times already and I know IT DOES GET BETTER. (eventually).

So actually rather than wailing in my newly finished crochet blanket (spoiler alert) I am quite ants in my pants excited!

Have you taken on any major work lately?

Muchos x