The House - Master Bedroom

This will one day be our bedroom, but right now it's just an empty room with wallpaper paste, paint and no carpet. Infact the three bedrooms in this house have no carpet at all. That's how we bought it and we'll be sorting that out at some point. Anyway on to the pictures.

I've been to Paris, I've been to a lot of places in France but this is just tacky. Under it was about 3 different wallpapers from over the years but thankfully wasn't as hard to get off as the 2nd bedroom... you'll see some pictures of that soon. This is also the wall where the radiator is on which currently has been removed. We have sorted this wall and it's currently being painted white, needs another coat at the very least though.

Previous owner had dogs so that's what all that hair is but as you can see a dodgy wire. The wall has been stripped, wood repainted and put back on the wall and now this wall is currently blue and will be out "centre piece" wall. There were a fair few cracks in the plastering but thankfully nothing my man and his father couldn't handle. The other wall doesn't look so great but we're not bothered too much because it'll be hidden when we build our very own DIY built-in wardrobe. This will house our clothes, shoes and our computers (yes we own two computers!) so goodbye to those huge computer chairs and so long to our massive desks! Can't wait to start building it. And yes no carpet... we aren't too sure what to go for in way of carpet as so far we're just happy to have anything really. Looking in carpet stores and seeing all these different types and colours confuses us but we'll figure it out... right?

One thing we don't need to worry about in this house is windows as luckily the previous owner got new double glazed windows put in everywhere. We live very close to the M6 and you can hear the traffic when our front door is open so gives an idea of how great our windows really are.

To Do List

Carpet

Built-In Wardrobe

Decorate

By decorate I mean making it feel bit more than just four walls with a bed in it. We have lived in rented places for so long that all of a sudden we can actually put things on walls... we can do whatever we want to the walls and no landlord or letting agent will whine to us about it!

The House - Kitchen

I thought to start this blog I should introduce the rooms. This is the first house we have ever bought and used our wedding funds to put a deposit down on this place. It needs loads of work doing but you'll see that over time. When we moved in I was heavily pregnant and was suffering badly. Now we have our daughter so I'm somewhat useful once more around the house so for a while things were at a stand-still. Anyway on to the kitchen!

This photograph was taken the day we finally got the keys. I say finally because we were meant to move in in December and we didn't until April. I pray we never have to go near an estate agency ever again. Anyway as you can see not much in the way of storage. The cupboards on the wall are very thin and mostly for decoration. For now they are being used to store cups and hooks under it to hand teacups so it'll work for now. We're not a huge fan on the colour either but again we aren't going to die from that so that is very low on the list of work around this house. The floor has been poorly done, there's about 3 different floorings under this one and you can even see the pattern of the one under this one but again it serves a purpose perfectly fine so not a problem. The cupboards under the sink was awful, the bottom of it was rotten so father in law sorted that for us in just a few minutes and now our recycling bin and normal kitchen bin are there as well as few other bits n bobs.

Since this photograph was taken we have fixed the drawers which kept getting stuck or fall off. We have also added a shelf above the fireplace (yes that is an old fireplace which would have been used to heat water) and hooks under it to store pots and pans. Electrics have also been redone (the whole house got new electrics actually) and the old 60's council electrics have been removed, thank goodness. So what else do we want to do in here?

To Do List

Repaint cupboard and drawers OR buy new kitchen units
Install gas cooker
New sink
New worktop

For now these things all work perfectly fine, it's just they are either on their way out or are just not to our liking.