Re: Hi from a new member!

[Scattybird]

carsonky – every room in my house fits the description you gave of your room! Also, I knocked the kitchen out ages ago (years not weeeks), I bought a new kitchen which is in boxes in my living room (those boxes will have been there a year in November), some of the kitchen items are still in the store and I never got around to collecting them so goodness knows if I can still get them. I have lost the plans for the kitchen so haven’t a clue how it all fits together.

I also have a new bathroom in my living room (also in boxes) but thankfully I didn’t demolish the old bathroom like I did the old kitchen.

So my downstairs is uninhabitable and my upstairs is completely cluttered.

Sometimes it really gets me down – but mostly I don’t even notice! Like you, the mail gets dumped and I don’t even ‘see it’ even though it’s in a pile in front of me.

So, Tiddler and Nellie – it would be great to have you on board here too.

I only suggested seven months because that’s when my last post was here and I haven’t moved forward at all in that time.

So, let’s take up your suggestion Nellie – so I’m going to list my household tasks and deadlines and carsonky – we’ll check in with you on Dec 23 if not before but Nellie is right about timescales.

So given that I am tied up with work trips until end of Sept things are a bit fraught – excuses already….but here’s my plan:

20th Aug – will have given builder details of room sizes and what needs fitting – kitchen, bathroom, floors, electrics sorting, subsidence issue needs dealing with. (I need someone in as overwhelm has kicked in – plus I am useless).

Then I am at his mercy with time but once in his hands I should be able to progress because it will be out of my hands.

By 30 September – I will have decorated my bedroom and decluttered it (doing that myself).

Once kitchen out of my living room, I will strip the varnish off the stairs and re-varnish, remove some old plaster and re-fill – I will complete that within 3 weeks of the boxes going.

I’ll firm up on dates once I have a date from the builder. Of course I haven’t worked out how I am going to afford this builder but….

That’s a start for me. So my first deadline and the one that everything hinges on is 20th Aug.

Good luck ‘dream team’.

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