Success! We took a trip to the DIY store today and spent a chunk of money (thank you lovely landlord!) on painting supplies, including over 35 litres of paint! We have rollers, brushes, filler, white spirit, dust sheets, wallpaper stripper, sandpaper, masking tape.. you get the picture.

I’m quite excited to start painting. Even though we don’t own our house it will be really nice to put our own stamp on it & decorate it nicely. Whoever did the decorating previously did not do a very good job and the walls are different shades of the same colour – as if they forgot what colour they bought when they went to buy another tin! The wallpapering is all a bit dodgy as well, we will have to spend some time repairing it where it’s peeling, and trimming off  the places where they decided to have a bit extra sticking up at the top, randomly.

We even managed to get a great discount from the people at the shop because when we went to get our ‘dulux mix’ paint mixed in the machine, the can crumpled – there were very loud banging noises, yellow paint all over the place – it was all very dramatic! To make up for us having to pay extra to get durable matt instead of regular matt (after they ruined the last regular matt tin), they gave us £10 off our entire trolley of goodies – which came to over £270!

So yay, we are actually under our original budget – but with better paint, more than we planned to get originally, and a few more tools we hadn’t originally planned to get! I love it when things work out like that. The whole thing with the mixing machine was highly amusing as well; James, the assistant & I were all in fits of giggles when we saw what it had done to the paint can.

Tomorrow, after work: time to rearrange some furniture and prepare the spare room for painting on Saturday & Sunday. Then it’s our room next, then the hallway, and finally the living/dining room downstairs. Yay! I like a good project, I think this is going to be very fulfilling