The Purple Palace

So the house we bought is a doer-upper. It is a hodgepodge of 70s' style. It comes with outer walls painted lilac, veneer doors throughout, textured glass feature windows, stained carpets (some with paisley designs), wallpaper that to a certain extent you have to take your hat off to, aluminium sliding doors and conservatory, tile ceilings, nasty curtains, astro-turf balcony …. well I could go on but you get my drift. (I shall post some wallpaper shots in due course - its worth it for a giggle.)

Boy o boy - we may have bitten off more than we can chew on this one. Whilst I'm keen to tinker and learn about DIY, my other half would rather chew his arm off. And given the scale of this, we can see weekends for the rest of our lives taken up with painting. Was this a prudent purchase? Only time will tell.

The parts which are nice are (i) the kitchen, (ii) the warmth (insulation is something we have sorely missed of late), (iii) the bath, and (iv) portions of the garden.
Hopefully the kitchen may encourage me to get back into doing some cooking. At this point I am painting the pantry shelves (which were a tad icky and freaked me out) so we still have bags of groceries all over the floor, but hopefully should do a final coat tonight and can put it all away in weekend. Then the cooking can begin.

In the garden, whilst there is a hell of a lot of weeding to do - and lets face it, gardening is a mystery to us - there is an adventure course out there. I spent a few hours in the weekend weeding the vege patches. We have some lovely raised garden beds for veges with really nice soil. - Oh God, is this a new moment in my life.? Am I actually commenting on having nice dirt? (I did get freaked out by a portion that had white stones and a tile laid out in the garden - and so I opted to leave that section in case I weeded up some dear loved family pet from the previous owner.) Anyway, I planted some lettuces and spinach that we'd been given as a house warming gift. Will be totally excited if we actually get a lettuce out of it. Grow lettuce, grow!