Its finally finished

Hurray after a long two stressful months we have finally got the lounge wall papered!

My lovely dad and husband spent all afternoon doing it and boy was it a fiddly job. Our walls are not exactly in good condition and where we thought there were bubbles it was actually the condition of the walls behind.

Now all we need to do is order our new corner sofa, up cycle our sideboard and get a new table lamp and we are done! It's only taken us two months when it was only meant to take a week.

Before

After

No it's mummy to you!

So my darling little boy has hit the stage where he's calling us Andy and Vicki. 

It can be funny at times but when he starts shouting your names in middle of town, you do get some funny looks. Ihave started telling James that I won't answer to anything other than mummy. 

Still he has the butter wouldn't melt look on his face when he's doing it so he knows he shouldn't be. We have Andy off work on holiday this week so hopefully going to get out and about.

Today was a relax and chill day but later in week we are hoping to go to Baltic, the discovery museum and if we have time maybe the national glass centre, sunderland museum and the winter gardens.

Oh and we are finally getting the lounge wallpapered tomorrow!!!!

Silent Sunday

So decorating on hold.

Well today was the day we were meant to paper the chimney wall but it's on hold.

When we were stripping the old wallpaper off we found a hole in the wall at about foot height that looks like the troublesome previous tenant had put his foot through the wall then duct taped over the hole, painted it then wall papered over it. 

Lucky our landlord is going to get it fixed so hopefully in next couple of weeks we can finally get the wall papered and rug and new sofa bought.

It's driving me crazy it's all on hold due to someone wanting to cause damage to the property. 

All I want is my house put together and as for poor James well he's had no children's TV for well over a week and every morning there's been nearly tears at no Thomas, no noddy and no peppa.

The lounge part two

So today we finally got cracking on the major prep work.

That meant sanding down all the wood work filling in all the holes and finally washing down all the wood work with sugar soap.

That took us best part of the afternoon thanks to an interfering toddler as we didn't have anyone to look after him.

Oh and excuse the semi naked toddler, we thought leaving him in just his nappy was the best idea as we were worried incase he mucked up his clothes. 

The jobs on the list for tomorrow are hopefully getting up early and getting a start on painting all the wood work, then while that is drying take James into town to buy the paint for the walls and the ceeling, so once he's in bed tomorrow night we can get the ceeling painted so we can get up on Wednesday morning and get the walls painted.

All being well the lounge will be all painted and papered by Saturday so we can finally order a new sofa and then we can make a start on the next room which is James. And I think that is going to be a lot of work too!

The lounge

So the renovations have started and we have a week to do our lounge! 

We went out yesterday and bought the wallpaper for our fake chimney wall, plus we bought all our rollers brushes and other little bits we may need. 

Andy started sanding down the paint work last night while I tried to settle James down for bed, unfortunately our little boy had other plans and decided he wasn't well. So today's plan of finishing off the sanding and popping into town to get the paint for the walls andceeling have been put on hold till tomorrow. 

I'm really hoping tonight we can get the rest of the sanding done so we can go out and get the paint for the woodwork tomorrow morning then we can start doing the painting tomorrow night when James goes to bed.

This is how the chimney wall is looking today.

Oh the silver thing is a string on a balloon belonging to James 

 

House renovations.

We moved into our house almost three months ago and we are finally making a start on decorating and making this a home for us and James.

The rooms that need the most work are: the lounger/diner, our room and James room. The lounge being the biggest and also needing the most work is our starting point.

Andy is off work from next Thursday for a week so it's going to be all systems go.

We have already made a start by removing some of that ghastly wall paper and that is today's job. My dad is bringing his steamer down and we are stripping that all off so we can see what the walls are like underneath. Fingers crossed we don't need to put lining paper up as I think James would destroy it!

Keep a look out for my reveal post once it's all done and we have our new sofa!