In response to Wednesday’s post, someone commented to ask if we’re working on our entire house at once. Of course not! was my first reaction. Then, as I started writing out the reply, it really did begin to look like we are, in fact, trying to take on the entire house at the same time.
This was my reply:
We started with the living room in January, which quickly spread to the kitchen, so we’re working on all of the ground floor at the same time. We’ve got a big splodge of tester paint in our bedroom, and we know what we want to do with that. We need to finish painting black up the stairs, and then do it on the top floor too, but we also want to put decking in the garden soon…
Damn. Barry’s forever telling me that we can’t do everything at once, much as I’d like to. Financially, we definitely can’t do everything at once (unless the lottery plan comes together), and it will probably go very quiet for the rest of this month once we have the flooring in. I am, however, gearing up for some excellent before and after shots.
It’s easy to get carried away. I know I’ve talked (or typed) before about DIY and decorating influencing your friends, but it also has a snowball effect on yourselves. The more we do, the more we want to do, and now that a certain part of the house is almost done and looks great (well, we think so!), it makes you want to keep going. Just need to rein it in a little bit! We haven’t even got to photo wall month yet, and we’re already thinking about decking. In the meantime, our bedroom still looks like a crime scene. What will we tackle next?
In my humble opinion, I think it looks great! I sat down on Friday and updated the mock up I’d done in Illustrator, and we used that as a rough guide. There’s still a few spaces for more photos, so we can add to it if we want to.
