Nearly There...

We've had a couple of weeks of limbo in the house - after the initial unpacking was over, we reached a point where we couldn't unpack any more stuff until various other things happened - for example, we can't unpack stuff into the spare room because it's already full of Rob's clothes, and we can't move them out of there and into the main bedroom until the bedroom furniture is delivered and assembled, and there's no point in assembling bedroom furniture until after the new carpet has been fitted, and so on...

The bedroom carpet was fitted today, and I've made a start on assembling the furniture - a super king-size bed, chest of drawers, wardrobe and 4 under-bed drawers. The carpet's really nice, lovely and thick, but a side-effect of that is that the door doesn't open and close over the top of it, so I've asked my Dad to bring his planer with him so we can shave a little off the bottom of the door. Mum and Dad are arriving this evening and staying into the middle of next week - Dad's going to lay laminate floor in the den tomorrow while Mum and I finish putting up bedroom furniture. Once the flooring's done in the den we can move the big TV back in there from the dining room, and put up the AV unit that has been in the conservatory for the last couple of weeks...

We also had two bookcases, a coffee table and a nest of tables delivered on Tuesday for the lounge. These are now in place and I unpacked 6 boxes of books onto the bookcases yesterday. Things are finally starting to come together - pictures after the weekend.