Our day trip to Wales, or as the Welsh say... 'beth 'r annwfn did e jyst ddeud?'

With our current house renovation project about to kick off, I thought it might be a good idea to chronicle the process. As with our previous project, I am expecting DYI disasters, living with few amenities and lots of dust. However, the biggest difference with this project will be that we're getting builders in to do the vast majority of the work, and they will turn it around within about 2 months (we hope!). They're already a week and a half late starting the work, so we're off to a terrific start.

The weekend before last Pix and I took a drive to Wales to pick up some floor boards that were salvaged from an old school. To be completely honest, I am not sure why we did this as it was a helleva lot of work, but it was kind of fun getting into a van for a road trip, playing daft games like Geography for literally hours.....!

Things we've recently accomplished:

• Found a paint that we like (this has taken us weeks)
• Bought 4 old church chairs for the living room
• Moved all our stuff into storage (hopefully making the whole thing a lot easier)
• Pretty much got the lighting plan sorted

Things we need to get sorted soon:

• Get B&Q to colour match the paint we found, as the sample we like is from the world's most expensive supplier (£40 per tin I believe!!)
• Find kitchen units and doors for kitchen
• Manage to convince the Polish builders that they should actually start the project
• Further convince them that they don't mind doing all the work required on our dodgy floor boards (i.e. pulling out all the old nails, cleaning, sanding, varnishing and polishing them). I am hoping this request will be met with the typical Polish reply of "No problem, it be fine. We do."

I've included some pictures below to give you some indication of how the flat is looking and the state of the floorboards. I promise I wil try to keep this updated regularly through the project so you can all be impressed with the pain that we seem to put ourselves through.

Much love to all x