Project Monkey

So I haven’t posted anything much for a while. There is a good reason for this. I have been a mite busy with the new nursery project that is drawing to a close (useful since Leigh is close to popping ).

What did I do?

1. I stripped the room to its bare walls;
2. Treated the walls for some light mold;
3. Took up the carpet;
4. Stripped the ceiling;
5. Plastered cracks and filled holes and fixed skirting breaks;
6. Painted the ceiling;
7. Painted Skirting board;
8. Papered the walls;
9. Fixed the cupboard door;
10. Painted the walls;
11. Fitted a new door;
12. Added borders and decals to walls;
13. Built the nursery furniture and then put the clothes away;

It was quite a mammoth task when all was said and done, but I think it was also very fulfilling as there is a great end goal. What follows is some images (from a camera phone) I took as i went along. Enjoy.

So the second room is coming along in the old -getting decorated- stakes and I thought it would be a good point to post a few low res pictures of the changes done so far – so here they are in order of being placed (newest are at the bottom).

So we are finally, and it does seem like an age since we moved the books into boxes and stacked them in the front room in preparation for this, getting around to decorating the dining room/second room.

Huzzah. Hooray. Yay. All that Jazz.

For the love of Pete why?

That’s a simple answer, it needed it. When we moved in there was a hole in the ceiling, caused we think by a leak in the bathroom at some point.

There were glass uplighters (eaugh) on the walls and no light on the ceiling.

The wooden stair feature was painted with matt white paint that had yellowed (partly due to the previous occupants being smokers, the ceiling were yellow as well, partly because some arse had decided to paint varnish on top of varnish, stain it, then paint it with no undercoat – the idleness of people stuns me).

We had to have one wall completely re-plastered due to damp.

We had new centarl heating and pipes fitted due to the old system being, well, sh*t.

So we decided to decorate/re-model and I moved stuff in preparation for a long and well thought out process involving a complete strip to bare surfaces (and boy did stripping a whole half wall of wood take some time!).

Speed it up…..

So why the rush. Well that’s simple, we now have el sprogalatta on the road to popping out and so I must finish this task, so I can do the next task which will be the great my God we need a nursery quest.

Greensleeves (well I lean on my paint a lot)

So we are going for a green theme to the new room with bookcases built onto the walls and a new lighting and putting a new doorway in to the kitchen. Picture of test for colour is below – I will post more images when the room is done/as we go along.

Wall colour test