Chaos

I've been a bit busy causing chaos. We have decided to get a lodger in September to help pay for Jack's nursery without using up my entire salary. This requires decorating one of the bedrooms, which turned out to be a bit more challenging than expected.

There are beautiful polystyrene ceiling tiles to scrape off,

which revealed wallpaper underneath that needs stripping

Pulling off the border revealed seriously peeling paint

And now all the paint needs to be laboriously scraped off the walls

(this is how the room currently looks)

There is mess everywhere and it feels like it will never end (after all the peeling, scraping and stripping we need to sand, fill and paint ceiling, walls, skirting boards, cupboard). We have decided to call in some back up and ask some friends to come and help us out so that we finish it off sometime this side of Christmas.

Next we need to find a lodger. Preferably a lovely, friendly, non-weird lodger. Let me know if you can suggest anyone.