House Renovations: the Saga Continues

I have now started on the work of tearing down the glassfibre papering. And have revealed that most of the room which was my dining area was covered in a charming wallpaper. Perhaps not my choice of colours - but who knows how much they have changed over time - not to mention being covered by some sort of glue. I am also taking close-ups (will get posted later) because I'm inclined to try making something inspired by the pattern.

As far as I understood the paper has got to be removed too before the painter can start putting up the new glassfibre papering - which will be untextured. Yay! for getting rid of the old!

I have finished my wall-bashing - the final bits will probably be safer in the hands of someone who knows how much to keep. And I wasn't feeling too energetic today, so hardly anything happened - excepting the attic hatch which is now in place!

This can be opened with a stick - and comes down and then there's a folding ladder on the hatch! No more the stepladder to open the hatch, then outside to bring in the garden ladder to prop in the hole before being able to skibble up! Nope, no sirree! Just yank once - and flipfoldskibble!

And even though the room hasn't been emptied of everything - these pics from the same points as the earlier ones should give a good impression of just how much has been lugged out - and what the end result is going to be.

And I am fairly certain I have decided upon the colour - it seems lighter on my test patch - but that may simply be it's in a much lighter place and the current surface may be affecting it. So the overall effect should be the slightly darker tone I am coveting. And this also means I'm actually not adding a new colour to the house - it's the same as in the utility room.

Project House renovations

Oh my! I've been pretty busy the last few months. Decisions, phone calls, money maths.

Dad was pretty firm about the roof needing fixing. I wanted to have something done which would be noticeable in my everyday life. My parents wanted to help me financially, I was too doggone proud. However, things were investigated, thought over, opinons and advice sought and recieved.

End result is a whole long range of things going on over the summer. So far the roof has been relaid and strange concrete blocks removed. The attic windows will be replaced sometime later. I've been busy emptying the dining area and kitchen for complete new floor. The two semi-walls are going. And now I've decided that re-papering (or re-glassfibrecovering) will have to happen - and opted for not painting the room myself. The attic hatch renewal will start tomorrow - instead of having to climb up the stepladder to open the hatch, then down and out to bring in the garden ladder in through the lousy kitchen door and carefully not knocking anything over while propping up the ladder, I will now have a hatch which should open downwards and has its own ladder attached!

The kitchen door is going too - major source of cold air seeping in, warm air flowing out - and the handle broke off on the inside a few weeks back. Instead I'll have a window - and this means a nice corner for working surface possibilities!

This is what the room looked like in the middle of May as seen from my bedroom doorway. Dining area in front, kitchen at the end.

This is the view from the opposite end taken from the archway.

And that's the fantastic cellar hatch - which is going to be absolutely marvellous once it gets the hinges moved, new flooring on - and is done well.


Most of all the stuff inside is now gone - an area 2/5 of the house squished into the rest. The pics of the room will be taken tomorrow I hope. I am happy I've had help with all this - but I'm also happy to say I have done a good bit myself.

Unoriginality strikes again!

Yeah - this is the obligatory first post of a brand new year. With the same old, same old type of looking at all the things the new year will bring with it. Not very original, I know.

I am once more a Hogwarts pupil, currently operating as a 6 1/2 year Ravenclaw. Yeah, 1/2year. Because I spent last term on sabbatical and didn't hand anything in. So I could have gone up with my old class mates and been a 7th year - but that felt wrong, not having handed anything in, so I'm now dorming with the class under.

I have already completed Detention and made homework for Herbology though they haven't been handed in yet. And have started working on Charms. I am going to try to combine my stash-busting effort with preparing for the Christmas booth mum and I plan to have at the Christmas fair in Ærøskøbing early December.

So, what other things do I have planned for 2013? Well, perhaps trying to make notes of what I'm reading, getting those better eating habits sorted out again, picking up my languages from their languishing positions, get the garden into something resembling my dreams, having my own hens and eggs and possibly home-grown roast chicken, control over my financial situation, figure out what my new computer should be, get the house looking tidier on a regular basis, hoard less of everything, get even better at giving away things which I really don't need, finally succeeding in doing Christmas according to plan, getting back into NaNoing and editing my old stories. sigh

Actually, this isn't so much new as unoriginal same old, same old.

Being original would mean actually getting something of all this to happen.