Living in my little house year 2

Posted January 13th, 2026

Hi everyone. I'd planned at this one year mark to post photos of each room as it was when I bought the house, then at the 18 month before the move mark, at move in and now. Unfortunately I still haven't found the hard disk drive with the older photos (The study hasn't really been set up properly because I'm always moving things around to work in the rooms) and when my daughter was here last week I rolled my ankle and it's still sore so my rooms are not currently worthy of a photo shoot, lol. I've been doing a lot of sitting around with my foot bandaged and elevated for the past week. It's not broken, swollen or bruised, but it's still sore to walk on.

I'm really keen to do my first coat of ceiling paint in the dining room but because it involves standing on a ladder to do the cornices it will have to wait until my foot/ankle is better. Having the back floor done has made me enthusiastic to get things done, but I've exhausted my budget for the next month so I can only do things that I already have here. I have a small amount of undercoat, but not enough to paint a whole room. I have ceiling paint, which I bought before I decided to rip the ceiling and wall panels off. I'm not sure how much is in there but should be enough to paint the dining room ceiling. I also have everything needed to do the plaster joins in the kitchen or the back room. Both of those rooms need a lot of stuff moved to get to the walls and with my sore foot I can't do them yet. So for now I need to be patient and allow my foot to heal.

Thanks again to everyone who chooses to read and follow my renovation project. It's incredibly rewarding. Even when I don't enjoy the actual work that needs to be done I enjoy seeing it after it's done and moving on to the next project.

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