I'm not great at it. In fact, I'm dreadful. It helps if you can break a job down into bits sometimes, but other times this means you do less than you could: It is so easy to decide on a rather unambitious point to get to, and stop at that.However, getting bits of jobs done is better than doing nothing at all. By a very long way! So being able to put the tiles on our bathroom wall a few at a time is, overall, a good thing. Also, I like being able to save drafts on this blog site... ;-)
The next day...
Anyway, just thought I'd do a summary of the state of our house:
~The bathroom is in the process of being tiled, but has a working shower, a bath with a tap, and a toilet. The basin won't be going in until the tiling is done, nor will the radiator. We've plans to put in an extractor fan, but that is not important right now. Also, we'll be getting a cabinet, possibly quite soon as there is a nice one in a sale at "Bathstore".
~The two bedrooms are mostly just in need of decoration, if you call repairing the cracks in the ceiling decorating. All new wiring is in, along with some networking and TV sockets.
~The living room has quite a bit to be done, with a couple of single sockets being changed to doubles, the TV sockets and networking to be done, a blocked up doorway to be plastered, and a stove to be put in! We are waiting for a quote to have the last item done for us, but most probably we will be doing it ourselves.
~The kitchen... well, there is a lot to be done there too! The extension does not yet have a ceiling put up, and obviously lighting can't go in until after this. We've a small dilemma as to whether we should tile the whole of the floor, or tile around the cabinets. I'd have gone for around the cabinets immediately, if it wasn't for the cooker, which we cannot raise any higher relative to the cabinets (so can't tile underneath if not doing under cabinets), but we don't want to either have a visible edge to the tiling, or trap the feet of the cooker in place. Then we have the last of the kitchen units to sand and seal, the worktop to have done, the wall tiling on the bits above the worktop, and the extractor hood to buy and install.
If I've forgotten anything, it is obviously less important than that lot! Well, there are a lot of finishing and decorative bits to do, but once everything is in useable condition, we can relax and enjoy the "perfecting" stage.
Incidentally, the pictures are of the beautiful beamed ceiling (hohum) of the extension (no, we can't leave it like that, we have a sewer pipe running across it!), the gorgeous nearly-flat floor between old and new areas of the kitchen (which took a surprisingly large amount of work), and of the wonderful (and useful) bath tap, that we were both so proud to have finally put in! ;-)
I'm very definately still on the learning curve of using this blog thing, incidentally... Well, mostly with regard to picture placement.
