Prosperous soul, mortgage neutrality & creativity Year 2

savingholmes

savingholmes said:

Garden

• Finish power washing
• Weed (selected parts only) 
• Plant new plants 
• Do something with compost bin as packaging soaked - moved so less in view
• Water plants
• Mow front lawn Ideally needs doing again
  
• Ideally paint back door step  *** WHITE PAINT *** 
• Ideally paint part of shed
• Tidy hose back away 
• Cut back brambles in front flower bed and by patio door
• Put bins back away

Entrance

• Hide wrapping paper from corner (could put in coat cupboard) 
• Move hat off radiator (could put in coat cupboard) 
• Remove carp from on top and just leave plant
  
• Painted inside of door
• Tidy and clean shoe cupboard
• Rehome painting from floor
  

Lounge

• Move white desk and a small cupboard to garage
• Decide what to do with paintings 
  
• Move mosaic mirror to DD's room 
• Move plant table where the desk currently is.
• Ideally buy a new lamp shade as the one there is too small and therefore looks wrong
• Painted lounge window sill.
• Find a home for what's on or inside it. Rehome crate - check contents. 

WFH Space/Study/Garden Office

• Find home for all carp on desk and by the radiator
• Make printer cupboard shut properly. Resolve shelves so don't keep collapsing. Potentially put some stuff inside it!
• Touch up white paint behind chair

Utility 

• Find home for remaining counter items in utility -  just move for photo.

Kitchen

• Hide DD's juice bottles (move for photo)
• Hide cling film, foil etc - should fit in cupboard to right of the sink. Put in magazine holder - will temporarily put in the garage
• Ideally paint window sill  *** WHITE PAINT *** 
• Chair covers
• New Orchid and plant pot

Fourth bedroom/Craft room

• Dress the room for the photo. Hide what can in wardrobe. Deal with longer term decluttering at leisure later.
• Fill holes in wall as not going to put shelves back up.
• Make room for toy box from landing
• Paint window sill
• Dress window sill
• Added plants to desk area
• Touch up white paint
• Then put paint away in garage
  
• (Later - Try and sell shelves.)

My bedroom

• Sort remaining corner - perhaps put stuff in crate for now and find somewhere to hide it
• New orchid and plant pot
  
• Ideally clean crystals on ceiling lamp as dusty

Ensuite
temporarily move all toiletries out for the photo
Hang painting

Family bathroom

• Find a solution for the photo & viewings for all the toiletries. Transferred to a basket and now in DD's wardrobe. New soaps and hand cream lotion in there
• See if can get latex paint off vinyl floor - can't
• Cleaned most of floor
• Painted skirting boards
• Dressed window sill

DS's old room

• Resolve my carp I hid in there for the previous valuation 
• Get floor lamp into corner (binned original and put lounge one in there instead)
• Move bedside table back next to bed
• Clear out old text books - put in crate for charity drop off with other crate in the morning on the way to/back from swim)
• Clear corner next to wardrobe and the top of wardrobe
• Remove desk. Replaced with slimline desk
• Added chair cover to office chair
• Dressed window sill

Landing contents

• Ideally paint landing window sill  *** WHITE PAINT *** 
• Move toybox
• Touch up banisters
• 1 crate left to resolve

DD's room

• Find a crate or something to put all her surface clutter in
• Resolved. 
• Window sill dressed
  
• New plants and mirrors
• Reuse of old mirror
• Still need to resolve window trickle vent

Everywhere still needs cleaning. All the areas I am using daily (kitchen, lounge, my bedroom, ensuite and WFH space) need tidying and 'restoring' to their 'dressed' version.

Night all.

KajiKita

Good luck today x

lucielle

You’ve been so busy, well done.  Hope your cleaner works her magic. 

L

jwil

At least with all your hard work previously it shouldn't be a huge job to restore the rooms to their tidy state.

savingholmes

Thanks KK, Lucielle and Jwil

I painted one side of the shed and its door after work today. I moved a plant pot to next to the shed.  I made the compost bags single layer next to the shed so it looked neater (it tones in with the shed LOL). I ate cherries and strawberries from my garden. My red water lily flowered today - I was so made up - the lily food I bought and put in a few weeks ago obviously worked. It has lots more leaves too. I dumped plants from a bucket into one that hadn't worked but was too heavy to move so that one looked better. I put the hose reel away and the bins. I moved the outdoor cat home to a bark area near the veg patch. 

I also filled half a garden bin with weeds and pruning. Things have got so overgrown in this weird weather. I mowed the front lawn (hardly anything there so didn't take long).

DD came and has sorted some of my WFH space and did some tidying of the lounge and kitchen. A few more things made it into the garage and shed (a problem for a different day). DD has assembled a solar water fountain which she plonked in the pond - will see if it does anything.  I nipped to Mr T and bought curry and chips for us both. I also bought a £3 bunch of yellow roses and added that to my existing flowers and threw a few away that were past their best. My dahlias are still looking stunning and some weird white pom pom looking flowers (chrysanthemums maybe?).

Cleaner and photos are tomorrow but I have taken some leave so should have 3 hours to help the cleaner sort any last minute things. Trying to make it so she can focus on a thorough clean though rather than tidy.

I need to touch up near where I filled the holes yesterday - but will do that when I go up to bed so not exhausting myself further with unnecessary trips up and downstairs. Desperately hoping the cleaner doesn't have a family emergency tomorrow as I think I'd cry!!

KajiKita

Good luck with today!
Once the photos are done I think you should go out and treat yourself somehow, just collapse in a puddle! 😉

You have done sooooo well 😊👏

KK

lucielle

Hope it goes well today. 

L

savingholmes

Thanks Lucielle and KK

Cleaner came. Just about made it. Not perfect but good enough. Think will set first viewings up for a week today. That gives me chance to do a tip run and continue paring down the excess.

Going to a pub for tea. Completely exhausted.  Should get the photos tomorrow. I need to get the floor plan converted to nice format. Also need to send EA proof of ID.

The photographer thought I had done a good job given I hadn't had a professional stager. She thinks it photographed well.

LeighofMar

Well done. I'm sure the photos will show the house beautifully.

Blackcats

Enjoy your pub dinner - you deserve a nice treat after all your hard work.
I bet you are excited to see the EA details and the house on Rightmove.