Originally posted February 27, 2007
For the next few weeks I am working more than usual and I know that I shall find it difficult to post and visit. So I have decided to rerun some of the posts that I wrote before my blog was read.
Last week my husband took the week off work to do some 'serious decorating' - his words not mine. The trouble was it was the wrong week. We have lived in this Victorian cottage for nearly three years and as the third anniversary of our move here looms, on 30 April, I have set that date as a deadline by which the main rooms have to be decorated and carpeted. If the deadline is not met I am getting professionals in to do the decorating. We are currently trying to decorate the main bedroom and the dining room.
We could not do anything with the bedroom because we are waiting for it to be replastered. Initially, we couldn't contact the plasterer and when we eventually did manage to contact him found that he was ill. Consequently, decorating the bedroom is on hold and the fitted bedroom that should have been fitted by now, has had to be postponed.
The dining room we can barely get into, let alone decorate. Three weeks ago, we had a carpet fitted in the living room, after nearly three years of waiting - whilst we used the living room as a store room and all sorts of other things. The carpet which came from a well known (I think) carpet store, has a mark in front of the fireplace and several other faults. So the furniture from the living room is in the dining room whilst we wait for an independent carpet inspector to examine the carpet.
The inside of the cottage is like an obstacle course. It is actually two cottages knocked into one but at the moment it feels more like one cottage knocked into two, with the furniture from the rooms that are supposedly being decorated in the rooms that aren't being decorated. Instead of decorating we spent the week cutting up the tree, which the recent gales had blown on to my greenhouse, into fire wood.
This week my husband is back at work, away from home in his air-conditioned office, leaving me to juggle workmen and a part time job.
10 comments:
I hope it all got sorted out in the end!
I hate it when the whole house is disorganised, I don't seem to be able to think straight!
Great idea to revisit old posts - a 'Best of' compilation!
Hello there
I found your blog through looking at blogs based locally.
By the way, I clicked on my name in your blog list and realise you have my wrong blog address.
It's "spot" not " sot"!!
Thanks Cheshire Wife!
You are obviously a very patient lady CW. Hope you are straight now - it all seems to take forever though doesn't it.
A x
Well I really hope this all got sorted. We ahve been here three years too (over the border from you but not too far away I suspect) and the kitchen is our next big job. I swing from not being able to stand how awful it is to not being able to stand the idea of the upheaval! One day the sheer awfulness will win and we will be ready to go.
Maggie May - yes it is sorted now, but it took ages.
Suburbia - I had problems thinking straight whilst all this was going on.
The Dotterel - a compilation maybe, but not my greatest hits!
Jan - my apologise for getting your blog address wrong. Thank you for pointing out the mistake. I have corrected it now.
SJA - thank you for your comment. I must show it to my husband.
elizabethm - it is worth the aggravation in the end.
The trouble is unless you set a deadline you get used to living in chaos, 5 years on we're still renovating!
Just like a man! Blast em, lol
Sandi
Wow, what a great time you had last winter, and I'm complaining about a few unruly kids!
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