Not So Grand Designs

Ok, so I've learned to leave lots of space around photos, and that it's not worth the trouble of trying to stagger them down the page! My apologies to those people who've been bearing with me so far. I hope I'll improve rapidly for the sake of your sanity as much as mine.

So the photos begin to reveal the challenges that lay ahead of us in April 2006. Some things, such as the brown lino, were unbearable, and were amongst the first things to be changed. On the day we moved we began. The small bedroom's linoleom surface was already torn and horrible, so it was decided to take it up before stacking all our boxes in there. Taking up that lino was rather like picking a scab - once embarked upon, it led on and on till there was no more. The next day we finished picking...with the help of one or two crow-bars.



And then we had to deal with all the nails. That was really fun (for the first ten minutes)...





Boy was it a relief when we'd done. The floors were unfinished cypress pine and the lino had only been nailed, not glued. The blue and pink bedroom already had finished floors, and the bathroom areas and verandah were tiled.