Emptying the workroom in preparation for redecoration. Old windows and doors being ripped out and replaced. Dirt and dust EVERYWHERE.......
As a result, we can't sit in the sitting room, dine in the dining room or work in the workroom. The kitchen is marginally useable, although one end is currently full of overflow from the dining room, which in turn is full of stuff from the workroom, as is the sitting room.
Only the office has been relatively unaffected, so the three of us have set up a temporary 'project management' HQ in there.
To let you see the scale of the mess, here are some 'work in progress' pics.......
It started off OK and in the beginning I naively assumed that all of my workroom storage boxes would fit neatly on and under the dining room tables.
So far, so tidy......
But it rapidly became apparent that the whole room would have to be used as storage.....
The only way to get down the other end at the moment is with the use of crampons and belaying pins.
The sitting room is no better, being full of all the furniture from the workroom.... base and wall units, bookshelves, cupboards......
By contrast, the workroom has undergone a metamorphosis and is now eerily, echoingly empty....
Before and during the redecoration.
Room repainted that perfect shade of pale blue. Old carpet gone.
New carpet is to be fitted tomorrow, after which everything currently languishing in all the other rooms must be moved back in.
Meanwhile, huge holes kept appearing throughout the house as windows and doors were removed......
My theory that if there was going to be chaos anyway, we may as well make it maximum chaos is being tested to the limit. It's at that point where I can no longer remember what it's like to be able to walk from one room to another without clambering over teetering piles of stuff and having a clean, tidy, building-dust free house is also a distant memory.
However there's definitely no going back now so the only option is to grit our teeth and get on with it.
Roll on next week.......
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Just stopping in for the Where Bloggers Create Event...call me if you need help, I will come and help you set up. I see you are busy right now, so I will check back at a later date....A new space always takes more time than we think. Keep smiling and creating
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