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bastard annoying jenga/rubix cube arrangement of our shit from one room to the next to be able to complete/decorate different rooms.
This!! At one point while decorating our flat I was sleeping on two mattresses stacked on top of each other as there was no space elsewhere for the one from the spare room.
NickCJ-
This - favourite part of renovating our flat was living with all our stuff in one room and a blow up mattress which we deflated each morning to give enough room to get dressed and eat breakfast/dinner. Oh and the toilet with no wall and fridge outside under a tarpaulin. Don't quite know how we did it for a month
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I've just created a kitchen using an old IKEA unit and a little stove I found that can run off a mains circuit. While fun at times I'm longing for a full kitchen again.
terlg
spenceey
Winner!
Absolutely. But it is galling getting passed over for other work all the time. Especially when we were front of the queue (whatever that means). I get it, there are very likely more interesting/better paying jobs around at the minute. But have some fucking integrity, or even just basic manners, and either do stuff when you say you will or don't say you'll do it. I'm fucking done with having sympathy for trades who have "too much work".
We're living in this. We are very lucky to have the space that we do, both trying to work from home would be making me even more miserable than I am now, so I know my privilege. But we can't realisitically do anything else until even the two rooms they started are finished as there needs to be some bastard annoying jenga/rubix cube arrangement of our shit from one room to the next to be able to complete/decorate different rooms.
I'm not asking for the moon on the stick. I want to pay decent trades what they are worth to do reasonable work. I don't want unrealistic shit, I don't keep changing my mind or moving the goal posts, I don't even have ridiculous expectations of quality. Just somebody, please come in, let me point at a room and you get it to the stage where I can throw paint at it.