One down...one more to go!

Been another busy few days (and more ahead my knees fear!). Work is now complete in the living room and we have almost finished putting it back together.

The floor complete - dance anyone?

The fireplace complete

The new porch door, and furniture back in

Another shot of the finished front room (you'll get bored soon)

A gratuitous shot of Bella - enjoying a bit of sun

The sofa all ready for cost evenings (typically the sun has been glorious the past few days)

The stairs - free of scary glass (handrail sat waiting to go up though LOL)

The Fireplace...

We have had a weekend of sanding, filling, more sanding, gas leak fixing (well that wasn't exactly us) and painting....LOTS of painting.

We now have paint on the ceiling and all the walls in the Front Room, as well as the fireplace uncovered for its first (draft) reveal... just imagine no rubbish in the way and skirting boards finished.

Most of the room is painted in a fairly neutral taupe (actually Natural Hessian to be precise) - but we chose to paint the chimney breast and alcoves in a mossy green (weirdly called "expectation") It looked VERY bold to begin with but I have quite fallen in love with it!

...and as an added bonus it sets the fireplace off nicely.

Still lots of furniture under covers, and cardboard on the floors, but we are getting there...

PS - what is it with names of Paint Colours... hours of amusement in B&Q laughing at paint names. Hmmm just me??

Lounge Floor Complete..

Still a little dusty...
No peeking at the fireplace still....
On the agenda this weekend: well it is our 11th Anniversary and I think we will be decorating...but what a gift!

Renovating again...

We have started the Lounge and Dining Room... This is a shot of the Entrance to the Dining Room from the Lounge before we moved in...

This is the Lounge - Note the Gas fire (didn't work and looked a bit scary)

This is the dining room...

After day one - this was the entrance way - all the thin scary glass has gone. The Laminate flooring is all up to reveal these delightful chequered tiles! Game of Chess anyone?

The fireplace and all the brickwork has gone - all chased out ready for the new fireplace! Hearth in too.

Skip ahead to Day Three and the floor is being laid... I do can't wait for the floor to be complete - LOVE IT. Still lots of decorating to be done - but that is our job!

More scary glass gone...

So - coming on nicely...

Sore legs...

We have just got back from a VERY long walk...however that carvery at the end of it was delish!

The weather hasn't been too bad here today, in fact any hotter and the walk would have been a bit unbearable! We decided to walk from Penzance to Marizion (took about 1.25 hours) - to The Godolphin Hotel where they serve a Sunday Carvery. It was DELICIOUS.

The walk home was tougher, as legs were beginning to ache by then - but ice creams part way home certainly helped.

Yesterday, we decided to tidy up the side return of the house. This is where Mable will live when she comes to visit - Dad very kindly fixed a gate at the end just for this purpose whilst he was here.

We took out alot of the weeds (there were ALOT) and then Kenny dug it over and I painted the fence. There is something VERY satisfying about painting a fence - such instant gratification.

I am afraid I don't have a before pic - but here is what it looks like now:

This is actually just one end...but I couldn't get it all in!

This past week in short...

Saturday:  Went to a concert in London with hubby and friend (very good)

Sunday:  Drove to Cornwal ready for house hunting

Monday: Went to see FOUR houses.  Really liked ONE.  Put in an offer.  

Monday PM: Offer was declined

Tuesday:  That's that for now - will keep an eye out and go again in a few weeks.  Travel back from Cornwall

Wednesday PM: Hubby predicts we will hear from the agent before Saturday that they will accept our offer.  I find this incredibly hard to believe

Thursday 9am (ish): Agent phoned telling us that our offer was accepted

Thursday 9.15am:  I serioulsy burn the toast that was under the grill when the phone went... I went upstairs to tell hubby in my euphoria?!

Now need a bit more money - so definately need to sell both bikes (motorbikes)

Friday about 4.30:  Place freead for my bike

Friday 5.45: Man calls asking to come see bike, NOW.  Man drives up from Southampton

Friday 7.30:  Bike Sold, deposit paid, pickup arranged for next week!!!

Can you imgine the rollercoaster I have been on this week!.  But we have a HOUSE (provisionally)....

A quiet weekend.... ha!

One of the jobs we knew we needed to do was replaster a corner of the bathroom where we had a rather suspicious looking patch of blown plaster... Earlier in the week we had the work done - which then left us with a rather ugly bathroom :(

Our agent called in the week and has arranged another three viewings (the first of which was earlier today), so this kicked me into touch to get the bathroom decorated and looking presentable again.

This is what it looked like before (notice the offending corner above left of Bilbo's tail)Honestly, all that was holding up that corner was the wallpaper and paint...

So, after deciding to go a little more NEUTRAL (how many house selling programs have I watched recently)...here is the result:We matched the paper luckily, but the bright blue took FOUR coats of paint to cover...however it looks presentable now and the wall is no longer bulging!!

So - here is to another week of nail biting. One tomorrow and another on Weds booked in...