It’s been a week and a day… (but who’s counting…?!) and finally my children are sleeping in their own bedrooms!
So Phase 4 was getting furniture moved around, and building flat pack furniture…
So one bed was moved into the other, but it was not possible to sleep in due to all the stuff still in the room! Luckily the bunk bed that we had invested in 5 years ago had a pull out single bed under it, so they spent yet another night in their shared bedroom.
Yesterday we managed to get delivery of both the wardrobes and assembled one of them.
Note to all: building flat pack furniture with your spouse or partner can be a volatile activity. It can either strengthen your bond or create rifts!
We had our squabbles, but we managed to put the wardrobe together… well, it was going smoothly until the end, when the sliding doors appeared to have an issue… the doors weren’t staying in! After much huffing and puffing on Hubby Dearest’s part, and calls to the company, we sort of gave up. My in-laws had a family friend round doing some work, and he is a bit of a Jack of all trades, so I rushed off to show him the apparently faulty part.
Alas, he had left for home moments before I arrived! And the Trade shops in the area didn’t have these parts in stock either!
I was so frustrated! We had made the whole thing… were we going to fall at the final hurdle?
Then Hubby Dearest called me to say he had fixed it! I can tell you sheepishly, that I hadn’t read a little note on the part which allowed you to adjust the wheel height, which solved the whole issue!
The offending cupboard!
We then decided it was best to sleep… it had been a tiring day!
Today, it was the turn of the second cupboard… which was even more complex, with many parts!
First, we had to dismantle the old one, and dispose of it… you should see the pile of refuse we have now for collection next week!
I was a total teacher and sorted the parts, and even labelled the screws and things, so I was able to reach for the correct things as I needed them! Masking tape is a great thing!
While building this one we got a notification that the desks would be arriving today too! Excellent! I wasn’t expecting them until next week, so this meant we could get things done much quicker!
So, the cupboard took nearly 5 hours to get right, and then we couldn’t agree on the layout of either room! We want the kids to get maximum use out of the space they have, but we both have very different ideas! Still, he won for Lil Man’s room, and I won for Lil Princess’s layout!
I disappeared for 45 minutes to town to pick up some new bits for the rooms, extension leads, lampshades, duvet covers, hangers etc… then rushed back to give the new bed clothes a wash!
It was impossible for me to wait until tomorrow so I decided to start the desks and it took me an hour to do the first one. After a bite (or 3!) of pizza, I scuttled off to make the second one and did it within half an hour with mo instructions! Go Me! I am the Flat Pack Queen!
Then I started unpacking things, setting the bookshelves straight, putting clothes away in their new homes, all that stuff…
And here we have them, the finished rooms! All that is remaining is new curtains and rugs!
Oh and a mirror. Lil Princess needs a mirror to look at herself apparently!!
I am so tired, bruised beyond belief, (but then that is because I am so clumsy… it was inevitable!) it was 11pm before the kids finally went to sleep!
I need a shower, a drink, a massage, a holiday!
Until tomorrow my lovely Peeps! I know it’s not finished yet…so much stuff to still rehome, but for tonight I will pretend that we are done!
