Glad they will replace the wallpaper!! YAY!!
Glad that you got your curtain fabric serged!! YAY!!
Your room is going to look so great when you have it all finished!! 
Bah about the rest. Maybe the new coworker will be inspired!!
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Looking great! How exciting.
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You’ve made a lot of progress since you last posted pictures! It really looks like a proper room now. I love the floor especially.
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Heck yeah!
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Look at you go!
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Your hard work is paying off!
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In all fairness this is 1000% my husband. Flooring is about halfway done. We are probably going to move kiddo up there before the stairs are in, which feels like it could be super soon!
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Will he use a ladder to access his secret hideout bedroom?? Inner kid me is so jealous!
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Haha. Yes! That’s a way better way to look at it than “not finished.” 
I had wanted to do a proper secret hideaway into this space when kiddo was younger via a hole in the ceiling of his room, but then the girls came along and plans shifted. And let’s face it, necessity is a better motivator than whimsy.
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This, right here, that’s the season of my life.
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I am so done with DIY 
So, the shop gave us new wallpaper. But it looks like there’s THE SAME printing mistake on it. We noticed it in the first strip we cut and gave them a call, and apparantly the owner won’t be in until Tuesday and the employees in the shop aren’t allowed to make these kind of decisions. Which means, I’d taken today off, so we’d have three days to complete the whole room, and now I can’t. My mother has been kind enough to help (again) but for the next month or so, she won’t have time on weekends. And I’m almost out of PTO. Plus we’ll have to keep stuff in storage for longer (which costs €€€ every month) and I JUST WANT MY FURNITURE BACK.
We did do two walls of solid colour, so that’s great. But it’s drying now and it’s getting odd wrinkles that weren’t there earlier. Fingers crossed that will go away or I’ll be able to fix them 
Our contractor stopped ghosting us finally. He still needs to fix some things, but hasn’t, so we didn’t pay his last invoice. He called about the payment and I told him to come by and make a list of all the things that need to be fixed, and then fix them. And when he’s done, we’ll pay. So let’s see what he’s going to say on Monday. He’s probably also going to be upset when I tell him we’re not planning on paying him for things he did wrong and isn’t planning to fix. Nothing “important” according to him, but we don’t agree with that. I mean, it’s true that nothing limits function or is unsafe or something, but it’s not what we agreed upon. If I agreed to sew pants for him, then he wouldn’t be happy if I sewed him a skirt instead and said “well, no reason you can’t wear that”. So that’s going to be an uncomfortable meeting.
I think I’m just going to build a blanket fort in my empty living room and sulk there this weekend
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You definitely deserve a blanket fort staycation!
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Our windows are getting replaced! Storm damaged them two months ago, and it has been tough finding a contractor to show up and work.
One done yesterday, other one today. Workers get here at six thirty, so we’re getting up much earlier than usual.
And tomorrow is the eclipse!
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Yay for contractors that show up and work! I’m glad to hear they still exist.
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The wall looks much better in daylight! In one particular corner, it seems the wall wasn’t entirely smooth and somehow we didn’t notice when we put up the wallpaper. But you can only see it when the light is on. We currently only have a light bulb hanging from the ceiling, with a super bright bulb in it. When we’ve put the shelves in front of that wall and installed the proper light fixtures, it will look fine.
I’m slowly making plans for the next two spaces. One is the utility room. In my language, that space is called a back kitchen because it’s usually built between the kitchen and the back door. This is a newly built space and it was the best decision ever to build that. It has our guest toilet, as well as the washing machine (and dryer when we buy it), necessary machinery for the rainwater pump and the underfloor heater, and then some extra space where we are planning to eventually build some kind of storage solution. For now, walls and ceiling will need to be primed and painted and I’ll probably use whatever paint is left over. Honestly it will be years, before we ever get around to building any kind of cupboard. And I don’t really care a lot about the colour of the wall behind my washing machine.
The other space is the entryway and staircase. The entryway is very small and we have a plan there. The floor tiles are light grey, dark grey and white, and those will be the paint colours as well. We have a big walnut mirror that will go on the wall. Fancy but a bit grown-up. So, the inside of the staircase, the part that’s only visible from upstairs… I want to make that really fun to contrast with the entryway.
We have a whole bunch of rubbish in the entryway now, and almost a year of builders walking in and out means we can’t get our white staircase cleaned anymore.
We previously never bothered with this wallspace because it’s such a hassle to do anything with it, but two big empty walls, it’s very tempting to finally use that space for something. Maybe put up some crafts? Paint it in a very unusual colour? This is probably the last space I should be thinking about but I just can’t help myself.
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A very challenging space indeed!!
Sorry to hear about the wallpaper!! Hope they will sort that all out for you, but I know the delay is very inconvenient!
Your contractor sounds like a contractor we had more than 20 years ago. There was always something off about every job (like hooking the hot water to the cold on faucets). Now, whenever we have a job that is done poorly it is called a “Dave job” because his name was Dave.
Hope you get everything straightened out with your contractor!!
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Our property maintenance man is a nice guy, but that is the way he is…the little details seem to get him. Our washer is hooked up backwards as well, which we didn’t even bother having him redo…we just wash everything on “HOT”, which is really the cold water! ha
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It’s the same with our guy. He can do most things really well, he built a whole annexe and a garage, and they look great, but he doesn’t care about details and doesn’t understand why other people would. And he has a tendency to leave things at around 95% finished. I mean, we (almost) all do that at home, but you can’t do that at work. He was referred to us by several family members, and they were really happy with the work, but they hired him for projects with fewer details.
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Our friend, a woman contractor, painted the steps of their white staircase with a shade called black bean, they looked FABULOUS, so much so that I’ve always remembered the name of that paint to use myself someday.
She also used a technique called pickling that looks so terrific on floors, I really loved the effect.
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