Everything's sorted and after a couple of months, we've finally bought the house. The contracts were exchanged last week and we collected the keys on friday. We've got a few weeks before we need to move out of our current place so that gives us chance to get the new house in order before we move in properly.

We started by decorating the front bedroom. Nearly all of the house has wood-chip wallpaper on the walls and ceilings so we spent most of yesterday scraping that off the walls. We washed the plaster down with sugar soap and left them to dry overnight.

Todays job was to paint the walls. We started by painting a while emulsion on the plaster this morning. This afternoon that had dried enough to put the 'proper' paint on. We've decided on light blue at the top and dark blue at the bottom. We managed to get 2 coats of light blue on today.

We've also ordered some carpets for two of the bedrooms. We'll need to measure the other rooms in the house and as soon as we've settled on the colour schemes we can start shopping for carpets for those too.