Moved to hellish downsized house last month as couldn't afford our beautiful one. It is small, it stank of wee , tomcat urine and neglect, it is/was freezing, and beyond filthy. Today I started the worst job of all-painting the (brown) artex ceilings, and oh I am in heaven! It is finally starting (ish) to look like a home! It has been rented to students since the seventies, and boy can you tell, but I am so happy I just had to tell someone! It is turning into our home!!! .
The kitchen floor however is v v v grim and vvvv cold on the poor old feet-what kind of rug would you put in it? It is a small galley kitchen.
Also a large proportion of the downstairs is wood panelled, a la swiss sauna but stained orange, and I can't rip it off as we are renting-how do I make it look better/get the horrid horrid smell out?