My House To Do List

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Hello Everyone!

Three years ago we moved into our current house, our ‘forever home.’  It needed a lot of work doing to it, we are only the second owners and it was built in 1939!  My next door neighbours are forging ahead with their loft conversion at the moment and it’s got me thinking about our plans for the house.  We’ve done some work – our number one job was plumbing in a washing machine as they didn’t even have plumbing for one, but it’s all come to a bit of a standstill, probably since we had a certain Baby D.  Among my new year plans will be to kick start it again.  We even have a lot of the materials we need it’s just a matter of having the time to implement  them.  To motivate myself I’m putting it down here, if it’s down in black and white I have more chance of getting it done (that’s the theory).

Decorating jobs

Kitchen

1. Tiling
2. Paint over the cupboard doors and replace handles
3. Replace flooring
4. Paint the walls

Dining Room

1. New curtains
2. New carpet
3. New entertainment unit furniture

Living Room

1. New carpet
2. Take fireplace out and replace
3. Walls stripped and painted
4. New ceiling

Hallway, stairs and landing

1. Re-plaster and paint

Main Bedroom

1. Paint the walls
2. Re-do fitted wardrobes

Bathroom/toilet

1. Knock through
2. New suite
3. Tiling
4. Paint walls

I’m inspired by colours and the natural world when it comes to bathrooms, like these:

My husband prefers a more minimalist ‘hotel style’ look so we’ll probably end up with something nearer that with colourful accessories!

At the moment our two older ones share a room and Baby D has his own small room.  We’d keep the family bathroom but there is already competition for the toilet and bathroom at key times!  It’s ok that they’re sharing for the moment but I can see it becoming a problem in a few years.  When we do our loft conversion the two boys could share a bigger room or somebody could keep the small room.  It would mean that we could have a master bedroom to die for with an en-suite – luxury!

I really like the double VELUX windows in this picture complete with matching blinds, if it was possible I’d love lots of light to come in to the room during the day and some stargazing at night with the option of shutting out the morning light.

I love this conversion, and the design is so simple yet with splashes of colour.  I can see myself sitting at the dressing table or relaxing on the bed (maybe one day!).  This picture is from Amazing Space Lofts, their work looks impeccable and I’d definitely consider them for the job.

I plan on checking back on this post and updating as I get these jobs done, hopefully by this time next year I’ll be closer to the end of the list!

This post is in collaboration with VELUX

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