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AngelieMumsnet · 04/07/2013 09:31
It's our bedroom. It's become a dumping ground for everything that we don't have room for elsewhere, (tiny house). I would love a grown up bedroom with actual wardrobes instead of hanging my clothes on the bookcase. 
Or a proper dressing table that isn't 2 sets of falling apart chests of drawers with a large bit of wood resting over them. 
We've currently got all of dd1's Lego (about 30 sets) in our bedroom on the huge worktop that used to reside in the living room because there's no room for it in the kids' room. We have the old telly tucked in a corner, the old hi-fi system that used to be in the living room. Oh and the printer currently resides on my dressing table too, along with the big steam iron as there's nowhere else to keep them. It's basically a storeroom with a bed in the middle.
Our whole house is/was a work in progress, the downstairs is now pretty much finished as was the passage/stairs & landing until we had a leak from the boiler workman not connecting a pipe properly which over a 4 month period meant we had a slow leak which no one could seem to locate, now that means all of this has to be re-done 
. I have just completely re-decorated the boys bedrooms and they look so much fresher and cleaner now and have stuck to light colours but there's still a few finishing touches to be done (like the floors and shelving) but as we go up the stairs again, you come to our bedroom which is ok. More of a dumping ground for the kids stuff as we have so little storage here. There's boxes of toys, coats etc in the corner of my room which just makes it look cluttered and messy!
But then we also have the garden. Not a good look at all! It's okay for now I suppose but not really the nice haven we wanted! It's very bare and minimal in everything. The bottom half needs to be redone as the concrete has chipped away meaning we have potholes! The top is a patchy grassy area, again with potholes, it all just really needs sorting out and could probably definitely do with some sort of storage place/shed for the kids stuff. I would love to be able to do the garden nice, not just for the kids but for us too, so that we could sit out there in the nice weather.
I suppose it will all come with time and money !
The kitchen could do with new worktops too!
It's awful when you go around your house and you can pick faults with everything isn't it!!!
I've told B&Q twice already about our Garden of Woe, but third time lucky-eh? 
Our house is a new build property where the developers went bust half way through construction. Consequentially, it was finished off as cheaply as possible by contractors hired by the bank in order to be able to sell the houses and scrape back money. So the entire house, let alone the garden, has been unloved right from the start.
We managed to gather the funds to get the house and moved in five days before Christmas to no working central heating, no flooring, no help with new build snagging or anything. We also had to contend with everything the disgruntled builders had left for us after their firm went bust and didn't pay them. Concrete down the drains, for example.
Since that time, we've been working hard to make the inside of the house habitable on a budget of peanuts. I think the base-paint coloured, water-damaged ceilings and walls will be staying that way for a while yet! Consequentially, the garden has been woefully neglected and utterly unloved, beyond the occasional attack we make on pulling out the weeds and digging up dangers.
I call it a garden, but wasteland would be a better description. We have unfinished fences that are missing panels and have been painted only on our neighbours sides, so we have charming orange dribble marks. We have dusty patches of bare ground dotted with half bricks and buried construction knife blades, riddled with deep routed weeds and, my personal favourite, the muddy bog that is the pathway to the garage. Our patio is one row of wobbly, slippery slabs next to the house - not enough to fit a chair on.
Once upon a time, the land on which our house was built used to be an orchard. So, the garden should have a lot of potential! With a bit of money, time and love we could clear out the junk that has been piled up, paint the fences, put in some flower beds and lay some proper turf so the garden becomes safe for our DD to play out in.
We'll get to it eventually, but it's likely to be a few years yet. It'd be lovely to be able to get the garden sorted while DD is still young enough to enjoy it!
It must be our conservatory. Although it rewards us with lots of light and sunshine, it hasn't had anything done to it since before we moved in, which was 9 years ago. The roof is leaking and has come apart (our weak attempts to divert the leaks), the door is hanging on for dear life and you need a degree in door shutting to be able to lock it, there are condensation marks inbetween the double glazing of the windows, the outside wooden slat walls, although they have seen lots of weather, haven't seen a new coat of anything and are therefore peeling and coming apart. Of course the inside walls are in need of a coat of paint too.
Nevertheless, it's the place where we sit and look out onto the garden, eat our meals, wash our clothes and the operation centre for any DIY. So it has quite a few demands on it!
Oh dear. Sounds bad doesn't it, but due to having to invest into our new business, we haven't had any extra cash to pour into it and we reckon it will be quite thirsty in that respect!
DD's room. Everyone was 
when I was pregnant and said I wouldn't decorate the nursery until she arrived. She's 5 months now and it hasn't been done...
The carpet is covered in splodges from the previous occupants' toddler (I hate to think what!). The lining paper is peeling and it's a horrible baby blue with glue left from decals. We've only just managed to chip 'Jake' off the door (not DD'S name obviously!). It's full of pushchair accessories.
I'm about to start making curtains and a quilt and then I'll repaint. Hopefully it'll be done by the time she moves in. I've got a while because it's on a different floor so even if we move her at 6 months it won't be there initially - too paranoid and too lazy!
the bathroom, we bought the house 5 years ago and every room was decorated nicely. but the bathroom is cream flowery tiles with a peach shudders bathroom suite its also falling apart the loo handle barely flushes etc. we keep saying we need to do something about it but never having the money to do so. looks in purse and moth flys out
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Hall stairs and landing, deffo. They are carpeted in Dark Blue carpet, and because i hate it it is covered in small paint splots from when I repainted (walls were yellow! 
With dark blue!) and fraying in the doorways where i pulled it about when re-wiring... and it is 'velvet' effect so looks bloody awful straight after hoovering.
That and the small bedroom -full of bits of toys, old clothes, duvets, feathers (from the budgies when they were in there) dust, bits of coving, books...It was a 'dressing room' so had large floor-to-ceiling cupboards which we had to take out to fit a bed in, but now we have no storage. 
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