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Since buying our new House cardinalsin and I have been slowly and inexorably drawing closer to some serious DIY. We have had the central heating put in, sky TV installed and put up a couple of shelves, coat hooks and a shower rail. All these little jobs have been leading up to the first big one.
The bedroom is covered in colour swatches, and the colours are finally picked. Warm apricot on the walls, velvet plum on the door, skirting boards and cupboard. Some sort of matching plum coloured curtains with a funky rail (unpicked as yet although I favour the curly iron ones). And a possible mossy/dark green coloured carpet (although isn't decided on yet either but anything it better than the lino we currently have). So now we are decided on the colours, worked out how much paint we need and what it will cost we had probably better start moving out of the bedroom and into the spare room and then doing the scraping off the walls.
One better than that though, today was the day we met our new plumber - an excellant start since the last one we contacted failed to turn up at all. He is pricing up for fitting our dishwasher (a very kind moving in present from my parents) and then cardinalsin and I will go and choose our new bathroom which he will also price up to fit for us.
We are still in the planning stages really but it is getting more and more exciting and the shiny new plumber has already given us lots of helpful advice so he is definately the new top person of the moment.
The bedroom is covered in colour swatches, and the colours are finally picked. Warm apricot on the walls, velvet plum on the door, skirting boards and cupboard. Some sort of matching plum coloured curtains with a funky rail (unpicked as yet although I favour the curly iron ones). And a possible mossy/dark green coloured carpet (although isn't decided on yet either but anything it better than the lino we currently have). So now we are decided on the colours, worked out how much paint we need and what it will cost we had probably better start moving out of the bedroom and into the spare room and then doing the scraping off the walls.
One better than that though, today was the day we met our new plumber - an excellant start since the last one we contacted failed to turn up at all. He is pricing up for fitting our dishwasher (a very kind moving in present from my parents) and then cardinalsin and I will go and choose our new bathroom which he will also price up to fit for us.
We are still in the planning stages really but it is getting more and more exciting and the shiny new plumber has already given us lots of helpful advice so he is definately the new top person of the moment.