The 888 Fatboy Chocolate World Tour
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And they’re back, three days until the house move and then begins the final leg of the tour as I bore you all with photos of decorating and DIY. Get ready lots of pictures of step ladders and paint, it’s going to be WILD!!!
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There is nothing boring about domestic life in Mansfield!!
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True, it’s like bungee jumping from the Petronius Towers after consuming two bottles of vodka, strapped to a baby elephant. We live hard here man
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Apologies for slacking with the posts since the jeans were returned to me, moving house has been both hectic and time consuming. Anyway, I’ll start at the beginning…..
Last week we moved from a modest, 1939 built, two bedroomed semi-detached house, on a nice street in a rough part of town to a large three bedroomed semi-detached house in the nicest part of town. The house we left had been our family home for 17 years, it was the first house that Pam and I bought together, where we lived when we got married, and the first home that our boy Tommy had ever known, however the area it is in has never been great and recently it has become much worse.
So we decided to move, and fortunately for us we managed to find a house in my favourite part of town which was being sold by the family of a very elderly couple on their behalf after they moved to a much smaller property near their family. The upside to this for us is that we managed to buy a relatively large property in the best part of town for a great price, the downside being that the property needs a hell of a lot of cosmetic, and some structural work carrying out before we’ll be fully happy with our new home. However, money definitely is an object so we’ll be doing what we can, when we can.
So we moved in here last Tuesday………
Here are a few “before” pictures, so you can see what we’re working with here……
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The day after we moved in, we set to work on the largest room of the house, which will eventually be Tommy’s bedroom/ games room/ cinema/ crib….
Here’s the mid point of the “master” suite renovations…..
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And here is where we are at now…..
Oh yeh, and this is what the jeans look like after renovating room one….
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There is as much work gone into you’re kitchen as there will be goes into my entire house though G, you’re not a man to do things by halves
Coming up…....
- the shitty old fashioned living room gets a make over
- the dining room gets a damp course and plastering
- we have no fucking idea what to do with a sloping suspended wooden floor ???
- I move some boxes around and try to look busy
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- we have no fucking idea what to do with a sloping suspended wooden floor ???
Pics? Although I ripping the bastard out sounds like a good idea.
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- we have no fucking idea what to do with a sloping suspended wooden floor ???
Pics? Although I ripping the bastard out sounds like a good idea.
Here you go mate, there’s about an inch gap in places….
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Deeper skirting boards…..
https://www.loveskirting.co.uk/skirting-architrave-c12/pine-m10
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I just want to advocate for keeping that bathroom tile…
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As soon as we pop them off the wall I can box them up send them out to you mate, no trouble
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So next is the living room, here’s some before pictures to show you what we’re working with…...
Apologies that I don’t have any “in process” pictures for this room, we had to get it decorated in literally 2 days due to an early furniture delivery. The dark green was a bitch to cover, the walls we’re not great and with no time re-plaster we had to go with lining paper for now, this is the result so far…...
We still have an original 1930’s fireplace to be fitted in this room, and we’re considering some “art” for the walls.
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Not much been happening in the house due to some drylining and damp work being carried out, just a few touches, including…...
This is what has been happening in the ring room….
Today it’s painting and more wallpaper stripping…..joy!
Oh yeh, here’s the jeans.....
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On a side note, I know over the years that some of you have been “thrilled” with my dog walking photos on the old local council park. Well, we’ve got a new spot to walk every day which is a little more interesting and virtually opposite my house!
