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@CYOA
Been at the new place for about 2 weeks now:
Ripped up all the carpets.
Plucked out (literally) hundreds of tacks/staples seemingly randomly placed that were holding it down.
Scraped off various layers of wallpaper (begets more wallpaper, begets more wallpaper, begets weird dusty paint, begets more wallpaper etc).
Plastered.
Undercoat.
New plug sockets/boxes/lightswitches etc.
New skirting.
New doors/locks.
Bought a bed, a hoover and a ladder (all purchases I never wish to make ever again).
Bought paint (though now deliberating after Mrs CYOA said "it's darker than I thought it would be").
Measured and planed a load of oak (thanks Papa CYOA) for shelving downstairs.
Planning out furniture upstairs and will be planing that in the next couple of weeks ready to join.
Still need to do kitchen and bathroom but am toying with holding off on those until we can figure out if an extension would be worth it as they both face onto the back of the house (not sure how much of a kitchen carcass is salvageable once it's laid down. i.e. if we extended could we reuse/rearrange?)