Renovating stinks!!

Just thought I'd share that.

Our house is a mess and we don't know what to do next.

Waitakere city council stink too.

Poos.

tell me about it. my driveway looks like a demo yard with cardboard, old cupboards, carpet and rubbish. going to get a skip this weekend. Was suppose to be getting new carpet last week but the new bath has sprung a leak out into the hallway somewhere so now we have to rip the wall off and hope its something obvious that we can fix and not have to pay a plumber AND put off the carpet yet again cos there are no more dates to get it done before christmas if we miss this one.
Plus im sick of having two lights in the whole living/kitchen/dining area, no dining table and tripping over tools everywhere i walk.

I keep saying to myself it will all be over soon and it will be worth it in the end

and here I was just thinking how aweful my hallway looks that has taken us almost a month to half gib (we've complete newbies to this and can't afford a gib-erer person) and that's before we even start to tackle to the kitchen and bathroom refit!

It's all worth it in the end ladies.... isn't it?!?!?

and here I was just thinking how aweful my hallway looks that has taken us almost a month to half gib (we've complete newbies to this and can't afford a gib-erer person) and that's before we even start to tackle to the kitchen and bathroom refit!

It's all worth it in the end ladies.... isn't it?!?!?

hehe - our floors have got little white foot prints everywhere. No matter how hard we try to clean it more shows up.

I've got one very small wall that I could gib stop if I wanted to but that's about it at the moment.

Yep been there in fact this time last year we were doing up 2 bedrooms and about to tackle a bathroom. I was 30 odd weeks pregnant and we didn't have a bathroom for 5 days - so not nice.

Ah I am SO GLAD to hear other women saying that!!!  They completely suck, don't they!  Ours are finally getting there, after years of living in a half-finished dump (and oh I sooo hear ya on the constant gib-dust problem.  That stuff can go ANYWHERE eh).  I had a fit yesterday when Ella found daddy's power-drill (tools everywhere - and I can't get it through to him that most of them can't be left on the floor), tipped it over, and the head on it which is very sharp landed literally a millimetre away from her hand on the floor, and landed so hard it stabbed a hole right through the new lino.  For goodness sakes, renovating with toddlers is just the dumbest idea in the world!  I've told DH I won't renovate again.  Ever. 

That's the way to do it, Tiff - before baby is getting into everything!  Now if only you could have convinced my DH of that a couple of years ago! 

...I was having a 'moment' here, and mum was over - she said "dear, I went for 8 months without a kitchen and two small children at home".   8 months and no kitchen?!?!?  No wonder I inherited her 'renovations issues'!