Big progress and new additions

Thursday's post reflects the despair of being abandoned, but today's post is all good news. The plasterers descended on Friday, and by the end of the day, the living room was bare bricks no more, the ceiling had been fixed in the kitchen and even the living room ceiling had been skimmed! Incredible! These men are machines! Tea-guzzling machines! And their work is beautiful. The walls are so lovely and smooth and flat.

Even better, L. has apprenticed himself out to the plasterers and seems to have really mastered the art of bonding. I am well impressed and hoping he'll get the hang of skimming so we can redo the hallway soon...

The plasterers found time for us today, so we have two guys here madly trying to finish things off. The downstairs looks like it's almost done, so it looks like we'll be painting next weekend! (Now, if only L. and I can agree on the colours....)

But the biggest news of the weekend is that we've officially moved in. Every last bit of our worldly possessions are piled around us in our lovely, very-shabby chic home. Also, we went to the Recycling Centre shop on Saturday and found not one, but two beautiful dressers (one with a ship!), a chest of drawers and a lovely little cabinet. They were all delivered the next morning for a mere £14. Reusing couldn't have been easier.

Lukas's handiwork:

From Briar Crescent

The state of the living room:

From Briar Crescent

Recycling family portrait:

From Briar Crescent

Close-up of the ship:

From Briar Crescent