Home improvements.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:06 am

Hi fgers, sorry not been around much last week & likely not much for the next two either. We started gutting the house. It was built in the sixties & needed a lot of work to modernize. So far we have split one 21ft room into two & are waiting for the plasterer to finish that off. Removed all the downstairs doors, frames & skirting & replaced them. Stripped all the wallpaper off the hallway up & downstairs. Its been pretty messy as you can imagine, a lot of fun at times & a lot of stress at others.

We went out for a meal on Saturday & then on to an engagement party, i had rather a lot of champers to drink & started smoking again after being stopped a month, i had 4 ciggies

Sunday i had two & today ive had one & its only 9am, annoyed at myself after having done so well. So anyway thats whats happening in butters world, hoping to get back to normal in my hopefully (finished non smoking house soon)

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:11 am

Hi Butters. :-6

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:50 am

best wishes to you! :-6

we just went through a major remodel on the house we bought recently and there are still bits and pieces left to do but it's nice to see it all come together!

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:25 am

Having one or two smokes per day, angry at myself & sad too

The mess in the house is really starting to get to me, maybe it wasent a good time to give up but then - when is? im on edge & could kill someone.

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:31 am

Don't worry about the lapse in giving up, most people have a sneaky one or two, the fact that you still want to give up is good, just set yourself another date and go for it. :-6

I hate decorating but I love the results

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:43 am

buttercup;563036 wrote: Having one or two smokes per day, angry at myself & sad too

The mess in the house is really starting to get to me, maybe it wasent a good time to give up but then - when is? im on edge & could kill someone.

The ciggies didn't make the mess go away though did it ?

I've got a different attitude to giving up smoking this time and it seems to be working.

I tidied my wardrobe this morning and ended up with a load of smelly clothes to be washed...I just keep focussing on the bad side of smoking...the smell particularly affects me now. I also don't go in any shops where the ciggies are displayed behind the till...it would be too tempting to just buy 10 and then.....well you know...the slippery slope.

I shall be tested on Friday because I'm going for a family meal (curry)...I hope the restaurant is Non-smoking...

Don't despair Butter....are you on patches or anything ? I rely heavily on chewing gum

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:45 am

Bez;563145 wrote: The ciggies didn't make the mess go away though did it ?

I've got a different attitude to giving up smoking this time and it seems to be working.

I tidied my wardrobe this morning and ended up with a load of smelly clothes to be washed...I just keep focussing on the bad side of smoking...the smell particularly affects me now. I also don't go in any shops where the ciggies are displayed behind the till...it would be too tempting to just buy 10 and then.....well you know...the slippery slope.

I shall be tested on Friday because I'm going for a family meal (curry)...I hope the restaurant is Non-smoking...

Don't despair Butter....are you on patches or anything ? I rely heavily on chewing gum

Bez you are doing so well I am very proud of you :-6 :-4

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:48 am

SuzyB;563149 wrote: Bez you are doing so well I am very proud of you :-6 :-4

I feel fine ......very determined, but last time, I started again after 5 months so I'm wary all the time of the temptations....I've not had a glass of wine or anything for fear that I lose my reslove....you know what it's like when your pi$$ed

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:58 am

Bez;563145 wrote: The ciggies didn't make the mess go away though did it ?

No Bez it dident :wah:

sambelittle · Post by **sambelittle** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:01 am

At the moment I am renovating my family home it is a victorian terrace we moved in here in the late 70s and it has never been touched since then.

70s kitchen and a aqua bathroom. Help!

Its had a lick of paint here and there but it is so out dated.

I have stripped most of the wall paper off and am slowly getting there. I have also given up smoking which at times seems a bad idea especialy with the dogs under my feet but my incentive is Get It done and then I will sell it so that I can start my new adventure.

My animal rescue/shelter.

:-5 :-5 :-5 :-5

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:25 am

Hi gang, just a flying visit to say the improvements are going well but painfully slow, the living room floor is down & we just have the window framing & skirting to do in there & its ready for use, the dining room connects off the living room hence out of action & so we are still having to sit on the bed to eat dinner, we're pretty much living in the bedroom still as the lengths of wood take up the whole of downstairs hallway & into the kitchen & porch, its pretty depressing & resembles a builders yard but our tempers are hanging in there. My advice to anyone else considering a big overhaul - do one room at a time, its a bloody nightmare.

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:49 am

buttercup;569428 wrote: Hi gang, just a flying visit to say the improvements are going well but painfully slow, the living room floor is down & we just have the window framing & skirting to do in there & its ready for use, the dining room connects off the living room hence out of action & so we are still having to sit on the bed to eat dinner, we're pretty much living in the bedroom still as the lengths of wood take up the whole of downstairs hallway & into the kitchen & porch, its pretty depressing & resembles a builders yard but our tempers are hanging in there. My advice to anyone else considering a big overhaul - do one room at a time, its a bloody nightmare.

thats suzy's fave trick ruin every room no wallpaper , no carpets , nothing looks like the teliban have been holding up for years ,nightmare any way good luck it wont get done if your here posting will it ???:D

see you in july :wah: :wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:42 pm

Hi Scotgirl. Im volunteering Koan to help with the house. She lives for that stuff. Just give her a ring.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:32 am

Hi gang, another flying visit. The living room is finished, well the electrician still has to do a bit of work but its pretty much finished. All the doors & skirting has been replaced throughout the rest of the house, we are waiting on the plasterer to come back & skim the walls, then the painter, then the carpet fitter & then FINALLY we can get back to normal, Jimbo i dont think you were far off when you said July

:-3

Nomad - just pm me Koan's number