Updating my to do list almost a year on

So it’s been a bit quiet around here for a little while. Sorry to those of you who were desperate for more thrilling updates on boilers and ceilings (and who isn’t desperate for those?!)

I’ve been a bit busy working, being too tired, watching tv, being too tired, sitting around and being too tired which is not a good combo for DIY-ing or blogging about DIY-ing.

I’ll try and do some round-ups of the bits I have been working on but for today I thought I’d revisit a post I wrote almost a year ago and do a general progress report as it is coming up to a year of owning The Penthouse.

A year ago I was still waiting for the paperwork to go through to buy the flat so I wrote a big long list of all the things that would need doing. Let’s see how far I’ve got…

My love affair with the IKEA kitchen planner

I bloody love the internet and spend a lot of my time on it for work and cat video pleasure but one of my absolute favourite games on the internet is the IKEA 3D kitchen planner. Admittedly we have a love-hate relationship (but why can’t I just drag this unit where I want it?!) but I could happily spend hours playing with it.

I’ve been planning the new kitchen for the flat complete with awkward pipes to work round…

Kitchen ideas

I’ve always assumed that the kitchen will be the first big project I tackle in the new flat but haven’t been sure whether I’d upgrade it straight away or live with it for a while before doing it up. It’s looking increasingly like it will make more sense to take it on before I move though.

As with all things, I’m drawn to grey kitchens. I like moody dark ones and fresh bright ones so the tuxedo kitchen (who knew that was a thing?!) seems to fit the bill, combining dark base cabinets with lighter wall cabinets/shelves.

The (lots) to do list

STILL no progress on the purchase of my flat, got to sort some legal/mortgage stuff. Turns out ‘you’ll be in by Christmas’ really does jinx housing projects (thanks Mum!) https://www.flickr.com/photos/courtneyrian/5750960959/in/photolist-9Lcbki-jnvo1b-7Mfehz-gBeqi9-7JcYQY-gBeofG-ddr4as-8diMyy-a8UD6E-pUE6dt-7QhsH7-bJBUv4-9KrfEv-7HBZHx-82Z71a-bvH7Td-9BTsTL-839K8i-9APFZ4-9QmLw2-82YZmF-7S53EF-9889MZ-839L4i-dGpnfi-aqAxX1-7RoSFE-nr6dbh-qm5r98-8gL9DB-apadd2-a5MJeW-82Z54r-8jKTv5-iyQdDP-833bFN-9NnB3F-dB1a6Z-a5hfua-omphtm-89CjFM-nNtbVR-7AbdxD-c5VHj5-7JA9MY-7LUo4m-7LUnn9/ In the meantime my hypothetical to do list is developing