Merry Christmas

Well, we didn't get very far with the decoration, but we have one white wall and a bed, which is better than nothing. By this time next year, who knows, we might even have all four walls painted! Merry Christmas!

We have a bed!

Our bed arrived on Friday and I put it all together today. I was not feeling very well this morning, but struggling with screws and heavy pieces of wood seems to have made me feel a bit better (although I still don't think I will be eating much tonight). There were a few pieces missing from the pack, which is a bit worrying, and there was an issue with the screws, but now the bed is all together and hooray, it is comfy. I will have to ring them tomorrow about the missing pieces. They are just to secure the slats on the bed base, so I have put 4 out of 24 down unsecured. I don't think it will make a huge amount of difference, but would be good to make sure! I am going to be having visions of the bed falling apart all night...

One White Wall

That feels good.



Only about 20 million to go...

Tackling wall 1

The walls in this place are pretty impossible. Not only are they uneven and painting in a very heavy pattern, the previous owner also neglected to take off any of the wallpaper above head height, leaving us to stand on our one piece of furniture with a scraper to try to get it all off. This is probably the least fun thing ever. Because it is pretty stuck on. I can see why he couldn't be arsed. But we have to get it off.


Check out the faux-stucco event wall he has painted over. Top tip from previous owner... if you have a crack in your plaster, don't fill it, paint it and make it a feature!


Painting the wall. We have now finished the undercoat completely. The bottom area took three coats, and you can still almost see the lines showing through. I think this guy watched Changing Rooms one too many times...

The question of the century

Where the hell is all this stuff going to go?

The Before

It's a big project. We have no DIY skills. We have no furniture apart from one very heavy coffee table. But we are going to turn this lovely but unloved one bedroom apartment in east London into somewhere cozy and comfy. We have started to paint one of the walls and will post the 'after' photos soon, but for now, here are the pictures taken before we moved our stuff in.





The guy who lived here before had some 'interesting' taste, that's for sure.