The carpet has arrived!

After a bit of happy negotiation and compromise on colour - would you believe that when we each named our top 5 only one matched? - and some to-ing and fro-ing on price, we have carpet in our bedrooms.

Some of the many colour choices.

We went with the one in the corner of the room. This photo is not a great indication of colour - it's more of a grey brown than the green brown that it looks here. With a fluffy black cat prowling around the place we didn't want a light colour but the pattern in it which I think is best described as 'pin-stripe' gives it a bit of interest.

Despite being all "let's polish the floorboards" for the last year or so,  I'm really pleased with the carpet. It's so nice to get out of bed in the mornings and stand on soft, warm carpet rather than the rough, cold floorboards.

So, here's a before showing the cold, bare boards...

Study - any chance to show off the wardrobe!
It is all painted now.

And some afters...

Master Bedroom

Bedroom 2

And again with the bed back in!

So now we can do some unglamorous things like crawl under the house and install some underfloor insulation, plane the bottom of the wardrobe doors and two of the bedroom doors and re-hang them...it is a long weekend here so you just never know what we might get done!

Last weekend we built a wardrobe

Ok, I'll be honest here, I was more than a little skeptical when A said he wanted to build a wardrobe in one of our spare rooms and, as the flat packs were not quite right or just too expensive, he would do it himself.

I do think I am somewhat entitled to be skeptical when I hear these proclamations. A couple of years ago I went off to Japan for my holidays and came back to a DIY bookshelf that A had build with a cordless drill a couple of pieces of dowel and no tape measure or ruler. He had taken to this project with a couple of beers and while fending off the amorous advances of Charlene, the crazy lady from a couple of apartments down (that's a whole other story - quite amusing - but has nothing to do with our wardrobe).

Ok, so the bookshelf was not so bad considering the circumstances in which it had been built. Sure, it had a permanent lean to the left. Sure, I felt a little nervous when it started to fill up and lean forward a little as well. But, it did the job for a couple of years until we moved here and I suggested that we didn't really need it inside anymore.

So, we set off to Bunnings to pick up some sliding doors along with whatever else we needed to get the show on the road.  The conversation went something like this...

Me: "So do you know what we need to get?"
A:  "Yeah, I've got an idea in my head."
Me: "Yes, but do you know exactly what you need to get and what size it has to be and .......do you think we should maybe go home and plan this properly?"
A:  "Nah. It's ok. I'll work it out as we go around."
Me: "Really, becuase this is a permanent wardrobe in our permanent house that we might want to sell one day and I really don't want a 'drunk bookshelf' version of a wardrobe."
A: "Ok. We'll plan it."

So we did go home and make a plan, we did make adjustments as we went along and we did nearly tear our hair out a couple of times (why is nothing in this house square?). However, we are both pretty proud of the wardrobe and I'll be less skeptical next time A says he wants to build something! Good result all round.

Here are the pictures...

Yes, I do still need to paint the cornice and the bedroom door for that matter. One job down though, carpet is next!