A day of DIY
Nov. 26th, 2012 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylMy plans to leave for Coventry have been scuppered by the weather: the line north to Bristol has been submerged at Cowley Bridge and the line east to Yeovil has been blocked by a landslip at Axminster. Consequently I got to spend the day moving my stuff into storage, cleaning up ahead of the decorating and maintenance work, and, eventually, peeling off the hideous patterned band of wallpaper that runs around the perimeter of the living room.
By the end of the day the carpets had been taken up, various useless old fittings had been removed, the living room ceiling had been painted, the damaged plaster in the kitchen had been removed, and all the extranous bits of wallpaper had been removed:
Contrary to all expectations, I rather enjoyed myself. I even got a sense of satifaction from the really filthy tasks like cleaning around the sides of the bed. (In my defence I'd ought to say that I'd never bothered move & clean around the bed before because I assumed that it was built-in and immoveable. But no — the enormous thing turns out to mobile. Who'd have thought it?)
By the end of the day the carpets had been taken up, various useless old fittings had been removed, the living room ceiling had been painted, the damaged plaster in the kitchen had been removed, and all the extranous bits of wallpaper had been removed:
Contrary to all expectations, I rather enjoyed myself. I even got a sense of satifaction from the really filthy tasks like cleaning around the sides of the bed. (In my defence I'd ought to say that I'd never bothered move & clean around the bed before because I assumed that it was built-in and immoveable. But no — the enormous thing turns out to mobile. Who'd have thought it?)
