Current location:	Work it baby
Current mood:	cheerful
Entry tags:	new house

Well I suppose I should do an update....
....cos I haven't posted anything for a very long time. Ahem. I have been busy. The usual excuse I know but there it is.

We have now shifted into our new house! Hooray! We only lost one couch in the move, it decided to fly off the trailer and roll down the road and is now a little too battered to be let into the house. Fortunately a friend who was helping us move was behind the trailer when it all happened and he stopped and hauled the couch off the road. Gah. Anyway the couch has a new home in the garage and if we throw a rug over it no one will ever know that all the corners have been scraped off (except for you guys and you aren't saying - right? right?). Its pair will end up in the library and we will buy a new couch for the living room. So it wasn't so bad in the end.

The house itself is reasonably comfortable but there are a number of little niggly things to be fixed and some much larger issues to be dealt with in the coming weeks. At the top of the niggly list is putting new washers in the washing machine taps. It is not fun to be dealing with a very leaky washing machine late in the evening when you really want to go to bed and there is a spreading pool of water in the laundry. The other niggly thing is the back door, which I can't open without damaging my hands. I think the snib is sticking, or the handle. Not sure how to fix that yet but I think the internets will probably provide some handy hints. Or someone at Bunnings maybe. The bigger things to deal with are the insulation and the kitchen. Our house is absolutely freezing unless you have the gas heater going continuously and that is going to get very expensive. So this weekend we are off to buy bats for the roof. That should help a great deal initially and then later on we will look at pumping insulation into the walls and double glazing the windows. The kitchen is a much bigger problem than I initially thought and we are going to have to get onto renovating it ASAP. We have only been in the house a week and it is already pissing us off. The cupboards are too narrow, the shelves the wrong spacing, the drawers and too shallow, its cramped, ugly and generally annoying. I think we will be getting people out to give us a quote next week.

I know this sounds all a bit negative but we really are happy to be in our new house. We now have space to breathe and we have a library, a craft room and a spare bedroom. The price of getting these things though was a house that needed renovating and once it is done it will be absolutely beautiful.

Anyway thats enough house blather from me. If you want to come and see it yourself the address will be in a friends only post to follow. Or email me for the address.