It with much excitement that I write this blog!! As mentioned in my previous writing, we were on the cusp of completion on a house. This Friday we completed!!
The house is number 35 and it needs some serious love. Serious. In fact serious doesn't even come close. However, we had looked around and were confident that it was manageable.
I'm not sure if you are aware of a film called 'The Money Pit'? It's a 1986 film starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg. He plays one half of a couple who decide to buy a bargain mansion house and do it up together. During the course of the DIY process lots of 'problems' arise. You can watch the trailer here:
Bearing this in mind, there were a number of events which occurred yesterday which made me chuckle at the beginning of our project;
1. New mantlepiece
Knowing there was to be a fireplace in the house we knew to keep an eye out for nice mantlepieces. And last week, bingo! A really beautiful reclaimed wooden mantlepiece, we had to go for it! If you've ever tried to get hold of one you'll know it's very tricky to find something nice and for a good price, so regardless of size we knew we just had to go for it. When it would only just fit in the car, in three enormous pieces, alarm bells should have been going off! Alas, as we moved it into the house the mantlepiece was at least a foot too wide...not even close...so if you're after one, just let me know!
2. Taps!
On closer inspection of the bathroom, my mum pipes up:
"This tap's leaking!"
My dad, wanting to either prove my mum wrong (which rarely ever happens...) or prove his manly fixing ability (again not very often shown ;) ), wanders over and has a look. He tries to turn the tap. It turns and turns and keeps turning until it literally comes away in his hand! Hilarious!
3. The one legged builder
To be honest, this is a little bit of an overstatement! One of the builders who turned up yesterday had broken his leg, which made looking around the house an interesting task, I can tell you!
Through all this, however, I remained very excited and very amused. No matter how many dangerous electric sockets I looked at or the very, very dated carpets I inspected or even standing in the freezing cold utility, I could see through all of it.
This is the house our son (and hopefully other children) will grow up in. It's the house they'll learn to walk in and where they'll bring their friends. They'll play in the garden and out the front with the neighbours. It's where we will laugh, host parties and BBQs and be family together.
Yes, there is a lot of work, but just thinking about the future makes it all dissolve into insignificance. It will be our home.
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