The sharp-eyed amongst you will have noticed, that despite saying I was going to write updates, I have done nothing of the sort... now there is a reason for this... and it's the same one that meant it took me over a year to post the previous real post...

Anyway the less said about that the better!

So we've got a new house, completed the sale December 2005, and moved in then, with a week's grace to get all the stuff out of the old flat. Fortunately we'd spent a long weekend doing some serious cleaning of that flat prior to me moving in (you know, getting wax out of carpets, shampooing them, and repainting some of the rooms...) so the flat was in an ok state, most of the hassle was getting everything between the two places in two hatchbacks...

After dumping everything in the house, we then basically went away for 3 weeks over christmas! Having Christmas in New Mills with my folks, and then a skiing holiday in France with some work mates.

However after that, we got stuck in! Kinda!

The house is an 1870s red-brick terrace in Berkshire, with an upstairs bathroom, meaning a smaller second bedroom. We looked at several like it (from that description at least...) but this one just felt like home! Brilliant feeling to the whole building...

So currently the lounge is pretty much sorted, hifi wired up and wires hidden, TV on the wall, all painted with fantastic red glass coffee table set (trust me... fantastic!)

Hall stairs and landing are done as good as (need a carpet but we're doing that last...) so all painted new lighting all through etc...

Spare bedroom recently completed, again will get carpet but...

And the Garden is looking much better (It was brilliant to start with, but we just don't seem to be able to leave it alone!)

So just the difficult rooms to go now... Bathroom (big plans, small budget :o( ) Kitchen needs a lot of work, and Main bedroom (not even begun to think about it really!)

House

Christmas 2005

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Posted by: kolibri at October 5, 2006 6:53 PM

Posted by: woja at October 6, 2006 8:28 AM