House fixy-uppy shit

[Rico1304]

Shabby chic?

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Bit of filler... Job done.

[lifetime fan]

Shabby chic?

Definitely.

 

Lounge/builders yard

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

You've got your work cut out for you there, mate. I've not followed the thread but have you busted moved in or are you renovating?

[lifetime fan]

Just moved in, got the keys a fortnight ago.

 

 

EDIT: Was hoping the skip would last more than a weekend too.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

It will all be worth it in the end LF. Glad I rarely get my hands dirty anymore.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Good on you, mate. I'm sure having it done the way you want it will help it feel even more like it's your home. Assuming it's for you and you're not developing it to sell on for a quick profit.

[lifetime fan]

Good on you, mate. I'm sure having it done the way you want it will help it feel even more like it's your home. Assuming it's for you and you're not developing it to sell on for a quick profit.

Yeah it's just a small place for me, Milo and the cats.

 

French doors for the lounge to open on to the garden have been ordered and the sky man is coming this afternoon.

[lifetime fan]

It will all be worth it in the end LF. Glad I rarely get my hands dirty anymore.

I'm sure it will mate.

 

But when the place is a builders site, you can't find any clean clothes and my old dear turns up with a lump of coal, a bread roll and a pound note to add to the mess it's not really that helpful.

[RedinSweden]

That's a big old project. Good luck LF

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

I'm sure it will mate.

But when the place is a builders site, you can't find any clean clothes and my old dear turns up with a lump of coal, a bread roll and a pound note to add to the mess it's not really that helpful.

You need a " safe room " a clutter free oasis in a storm of dust.

[Rico1304]

Bog, kettle and Sky. Any more than that and you're posh.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Bog, kettle and Sky. Any more than that and you're posh.

Add fridge and your not far off

[Champ]

I'm sure it will mate.

 

But when the place is a builders site, you can't find any clean clothes and my old dear turns up with a lump of coal, a bread roll and a pound note to add to the mess it's not really that helpful.

It's a token, yer miserable get.

 

 

And I'm guessing she well knows by now that anything else she bought you would be wrong anyway

[lifetime fan]

It's a token, yer miserable get.

 

 

And I'm guessing she well knows by now that anything else she bought you would be wrong anyway

Some Irish blessing according to her.

 

May you never be cold, may you never be hungry, may you never be poor.

 

She didn't exactly find it funny when I told her that was fuck all I could buy with a pound note.

[lifetime fan]

You need a " safe room " a clutter free oasis in a storm of dust.

Couldn't agree more.

 

That's the bedroom. Second sky box being installed in there, telly, DVD player and bed built. I'm not touching the decorating in here until the rest of the place is sorted.

[lifetime fan]

Bog, kettle and Sky. Any more than that and you're posh.

I don't have a bog at the moment, he's coming back today to plumb it in.

 

Went to tescos this morning, picked up a paper as I walked in the store, didn't bother paying for it, went for a shit and read the paper and left it in there for their next customer.

 

Every little helps.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Add fridge and your not far off

Lardy fucking dah.

[Champ]

Some Irish blessing according to her.

May you never be cold, may you never be hungry, may you never be poor.

She didn't exactly find it funny when I told her that was fuck all I could buy with a pound note.

 

 

I should have added ungrateful to the miserable

 

Couldn't agree more.

That's the bedroom. Second sky box being installed in there, telly, DVD player and bed built. I'm not touching the decorating in here until the rest of the place is sorted.

Multiroom in a place for one. Fantastic!

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Lardy fucking dah.

I'm posh I need somewhere to keep my red wine cold.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I'm posh I need somewhere to keep my red wine cold.

Ha, that made me laugh. Fucking middle class jokes.

[lifetime fan]

I should have added ungrateful to the miserable

 

Multiroom in a place for one. Fantastic!

I just want to decorate the place myself, not have to fit in other peoples crap.

 

What if I want to watch telly in bed?

[Champ]

I just want to decorate the place myself, not have to fit in other peoples crap.

 

What if I want to watch telly in bed?

I'm agreeing with you, yer dope

[johnsusername]

Spent a year doing up a house we bought, including - new bathroom, total re-plaster, total rewire, new boiler and new radiators, every piece of wood sanded and glossed, every piece of wallpaper stripped, plastered and painted. Doors dipped and painted, loft emptied out and insulated with some boarding.

 

After a year when all was done we decided to knock the living room wall down to have a big kitchen diner, plus downstairs toilet. Also, sorted out the front and back gardens. And carpeted the stairs and upstairs.

 

All in all cost about £30k. Mortgage value said we'd added £50k to the value, so not bad.

 

Did some of the work ourselves - mostly destruction and decoration (all the stripping and all the painting). Always tried to do that type of stuff instead of paying someone.

 

Left plumbing and electricals to the experts (though they are a mate and a family friend). Plastering and tiling I think really makes a difference to how things look so definitely left to the experts.

 

However, if you just want something doing quick it can be good just to pay someone and get it out the way.

 

Hated - ripping up bathroom tiles; clearing out the loft

 

Quite liked - ripping out the garden and skipping most of it.

Kitchen was from Brosna and Built In Appliances (Anfield). Bathroom was from B and Q. Tiles from some place in Old Swan and Beesley's (town/toxteth depot).

[stringvest]

A bit like what I did last year, that. 3 new bathrooms, stairs re routed, roof off, 2 new bedrooms, rewire and re plumb the whole house, underfloor heating, wooden floors down, 2 walls knocked down downstairs, three walls built downstairs, 6 new doors, complete rewire, 80 down lighters installed, kitchen redesign, new study built, paint 14 rooms, hall, stairs and a landing. Done all the decorating and flooring myself. Still bits to do. I'm fucking fed up with it.

 

Never again. I'm exhausted and skint.