make my house a home

Our new bed arrived last friday and ohmigosh it’s so amazingly comfortable and lovely. I have slept sooo good for the last week and the best thing, the back pain I have had in the mornings for almost 3 years is gone!!! I wake up rested and happy and ready to face the day!

The bedroom is almost fully complete. All we need now is the headboard for the bed and something to dress the window. The room is so pretty now though. No more clutter, drawer and cupboard space for when my honey comes to live here and even flowers on the dresser!

I wake up in the morning and smile…it’s like waking up in a hotel room every day!

I got home tonight from work very excited because the new carpet arrives tomorrow. It’s gonna be awesome. I moved all the furniture out of our bedroom and it’s all ready for them to come in tomorrow and lay the new one! YEY it’s gonna be amazing!!!!

Today has been an awesome day so far. I have repapered and painted the bathroom walls, wood and ceiling. Now I just have to get everything back into the bathroom that I want in there, tidy up a little and clean the floor.

I’ve also been to the bed shop and have a new bed arriving in a couple of weeks. Very excited about this as it means it will be here for the next time my honey comes to visit. The bed is lovely….it has a solid base, a memory foam mattress and a soft lilac suede headboard.

While I was at the bed shop I also visited the carpet shop upstairs and got a new bedroom carpet which is going to be delivered and fitted on Thursday next week!

Oh and I got some new lightshades one for the bedroom and one for the bathroom and they look much better :)

Wow such a busy day!

Today I’m going to redecorate my bathroom, hang paper, paint the wood, ceiling and walls, organise the clutter in there, find other uses for towels that are becoming slightly useless as towels….maybe they’ll make good floor cloths or something, find a new lightshade, relay the flooring and clean it really well. I also need to buy some new accessories and fit them. It’s gonna be a good day :):)

I got this idea from one of the testimonials written into flylady. I went around my house tonight and wrote down all the jobs that needed doing. Then I cut the paper into strips so there was one job on each strip, folded them and put them in a box.

The idea is, when I have 15 minutes to spare and am looking for something to do I can choose a paper strip from the box and do it for 15 minutes. If I don’t finish the task in 15 minutes I can either choose to continue….or choose to put the paper back into the box and do it another time.

If I finish the task I can put the strip of paper in the bin and check it off my list of things to do!

Sounds like a good idea…i hope it works the way I’m expecting it to work :D:D

Today I went to the store and bought paper, paste, paint, rollers, brushes, etc and tomorrow i am gonna give my bedroom a makeover. I’m gonna spend time decorating and painting it…then wil buy a new carpet, bed and window blind, get rid of some more junk and relocate the computer – possibly…

I am really excited about this! The bedroom really needs a change and updating…when i moved into this house 4 years ago I wasn’t sure what my style was as I had lived in mountains of clutter mostly of my own doing…but now I am more aware and I’ve been thinking about this for a few weeks now….so i will post pictures when it’s fully complete

I have started collecting pictures of items for my dream home and what it will be like when I have completed everything I need to do.

I’ve created folders on my PC, one for each room and when I see something online I like…I save a picture and note the website so I can return to it later.

This week I am focusing on the lounge. I have begun to declutter and realised I’d actually like to have everything new in this room from the flooring to the cabinet, tv storage etc…new sofa…

Maybe one day :)

My house right now is a place where I keep all my stuff. It’s not a “home”. It needs redecorating, new carpets, cleaned thoroughly and less stuff.

It needs to be reflective of me and my honey and I didn’t realise how bad things were until he visited and told me straight that things needed to change.

I feel I have been walking around in a bubble with my eyes shut and have missed so many things and opportunities. I could be living in a much better place and have a much nicer home and yet I have wasted money doing other things and shutting myself away from the world in a cave.

Things are going to change for the better. I’m going to create a home with the help of my honey and it will be a lot of time and work but it will be worth it.