The house is finished and sold in an hour.

Did you really believe me???

But we are getting on well. This week Craig has worked really hard getting the floorboards sorted and fitted properly throughout, and has completed all the painting in the kitchen. Last weekend he had a bit of a game fitting the additional joist under the kitchen floor, but managed it in the end, and got the bards back down in there. This meant he was able to fit the large hardboard panels to the floor, and has begun laying the ceramic tiles on the floor now, which look really good.

The glossing upstairs is coming on, but there is so much!! Most is primed and undercoated now, but the final gloss coat is yet to be done. I'll get there eventually!!

We've had Allied round to measure for the carpets, but they won't be fitted until absolutely everything else is finished, so in about 3 weeks hopefully. We spent 4 hours in Ikea on Friday sorting the kitchen units. We'd played around on their computerised design planner at home, but we wanted to look at the units in real life again and build the little block model to give us an idea if it would look OK (see the Flicker album for our masterpiece!!). amazingly, we ordered at about 3.30 on Friday and the kitchen (all 65 separate items!!) arrived at 5.30 Saturday....amazing! Hopefully its all there, although they did tell us at the time that some items were on order, so Craig will have to go back this week sometime when they come in. I guess we'll be fitting the kitchen next weekend, once Craig has finished the floor and it's had time to harden off.

I decided that with the nice weather, I'd take a break from glossing and see if I could improve the look of the garden. have managed to tidy it quite well, but we're not sure how we will progress and how much to do to it really. The grass is quite lumpy, and there are no defined borders at present, but I'm sure we can do a good job. Unbelievably, at the end of the garden was a compost heap (well that was probably it's original use!), with a carpet it in, lots of bits of wood, and I've yet to extract the old vacuum cleaner I can see poking out!! Our skip is just about bursting, so we'll have to let it go soon, but looking at the rubbish at the end of the garden, we'll need another!!

Looking forward to the long weekend at Easter to get the kitchen in and probably more glossing done!!