House... house... house...

We're not quite at the 12 month anniversary of moving in to our house, but slowly and at long long last, we are getting a few things done.  The decorators are coming in the next few weeks to paint the external windows (cills and headers).  We're having new flooring in the downstairs toilet and the two upstairs bathrooms, and a new carpet in the playroom (not exactly by choice, but each child in turn had a go at pulling the same thread, which resulted in a hole appearing).  We've had some builders in today trying to sort out the damp patch in the girls' bedroom, so we just need to wait until that dries out to see whether the problem is solved.  We had a drainage man come round earlier in the Summer who advised us we probably didn't need to do anything else to the drains, so we were relatively happy with that news.  I'd have liked to have spent what we'd just 'saved' ourselves on the decorating, but don't think husband would sanction that.  Oh, and on Monday we had the gardeners in to tidy up the beautiful garden in readiness for Winter.  So all in all, we're getting somewhere - after seemingly months of chasing quotes and having people traipse through... a little bit to show for it.  Can't say we've really put our mark on the house in any way.  All we've done is have the dishwasher fitted in the kitchen, altered the outlet pipe where the washing machine attached to the boiler.  We haven't even put up a shelf or painted anywhere, or done anything.  We do have a half-constructed skate ramp in the garden though.