Day 2

The decorating begins! :)

I had two helpers on day two, one by the name of Father and the other by the name of Mother.

Mother was on oven cleaning and curtain making duty for the weekend. However, the previous owner clearly didn't believe in keeping the oven clean as it was pretty manky... So rank in fact that Mother didn't get anywhere near the curtains that day... But it's nice and clean now :)

Scrubbing away

Sparkles! :)

Myself and father were on decorating duty. First thing's first, get that nasty dado rail removed!

Note the lovely wall paper underneath the paint...

We also had to remove the door from the cupboard, as this was to be my new book shelf, mask off the lovely fireplace and take down the curtains and curtain pole.

West Highland Free Press vs The Inverness Courier

We spent an awful long time prepping the walls! mainly because we were dealing with painted over wallpaper which had in places come undone at the seams... We tried wall paper paste and boarder adhesive, non of which worked of course... I eventually decided that these areas had to be cut out with a stanley knife and filled in with polly filler. This worked a treat! :) So at the end of day 2 we eventually managed to get one coat of paint on...

The Bodach finishing off the bits I couldn't reach...