Plans moving into action.

We have decided and agreed that this weekend we shall set Sunday aside to blitz the front room. Everything off the shelves and it will ALL be sorted and either put back properly, or thrown out, or possibly sold.

I don't think it'll take a full day, but I don't want to pressure myself into cramming it all into half a day and then get myself stressed over it. That would be the opposite result to what we are trying to achieve.

We know we need some more storage in the front room, but this way we can evaluate what needs to be brought before buying it and realising it was not at all needed and we have wasted yet more money on something we do not need.

Going through each of the rooms like this, one every week or so means the house should be much more relaxing and manageable by Xmas. Ready for all the redecorating in the new year.

We have also decided that, money dependant of course, we shall get someone in to fit the new kitchen when we get it done, the main bulk of it all anyway! it'll save so much time and hassle! Plus if D has time off to fit said kitchen, he will not be bringing in any money (being self employed and all) so really it shouldn't 'cost' much more to get someone in to do it all for us.

I am not looking forward to being kitchenless, it will be a nightmare, everything will be a mess. The thought of it does not fill me with joy. But the thought of a new kitchen, with doors that are not falling off, and a cooker that actually has the dials etc still on it... and the possibility of a dishwasher! a dishwasher, oh how wonderful it will be to come home and cook and not have to drag ourselves back up to was the dishes. After just 3 years of living together it feels quite decadent wanting a dishwasher, but the whole point of this is to make living in our house more enjoyable.

It is no longer a stop gap house to just get on the market. Its our Home. It has to be while we are in negative equity! so instead of sulking that we are not, any time soon, going to be getting our beautiful old project house, somewhere in the country, ideally near a river or some other source of water surrounded by nature, with beautiful exposed brick and white washed walls, old leather sofas and a veggy patch. Instead of sulking, we are making this house feel like home again.

And the process all starts this Sunday!