Baby’s room, job done

Been off work for the last three days to get the future arrivals room ready, its always been a bit of a mystery to me why the room has to be ready even though the baby will not be using it for many months after it is born, but Sharon wants it done and who am I to argue.

So it all started reasonably well on the Wednesday, two coats of the new coloured paint and all the woodwork glossed and filled, perfect.

Day 2, I had to fit the border, I have never done any papering before and thought a border would be pretty easy to do, oh no how wrong could you be. By lunchtime I had hung about two metres, removed four metres and had to repaint two walls, total disaster. Then I ran out of the border and had to drive 25 miles each way to get some more. Finally finished at 4pm. Its ok but not perfectly level.

Day 3 Getting the carpets fitted, well a little bit of advice, get your carpets fitted before you move any furniture in. It wasn’t possible for us as we have been doing the house up for the past two years. Anyway we were getting the stairs, landing, three bedrooms and the bathroom done and we had to move the furniture around between rooms and it took over five hours and it was all physical work. Anyway it is all done now and very happy with the end results.

DIY = Don’t involve yourself

Lesson Learned

~ by Chris Oldroyd on March 14, 2009.