DIY at the Dingles

Well I think we chose the most humid day of the year to decide to knock down my bedroom wall to create a new lounge. When I say 'my bedroom' it was the room I shared with my chihuahuas. We had to kick Rich out, he'll say he left, around 6 months ago as he was keeping us awake moaning about Betsy & I snoring. Anyway we've now had to give up our bedroom because of our dining room table. We had a kitchen/lounge with no room for the dining table which although not sentimental (although we have had some fab Xmas dinners at it and my plaster from my broken foot (first time) was cut off whilst I was on it), we are strangely attached to. Its nothing special, just a solid wood, very old farm house table so Its a bit drastic, changing the whole house to accommodate it. I was amazed how much rubble one, small, dividing wall can create and the dust!!!!! Of course once the wall was down we had to try the L shaped sofa in every position, along with the fire and the beautiful Ikea rug, recently acquired from Mummio who I knew would tire of it quickly after I persuaded her to buy it a year ago. After position number 4, lots of sweat and much cursing (from Rich) we finally had it all in place and he quickly mounted the TV on the wall before I could change my mind. I've had to put a barrier up though to stop our big white dog going in there as she finds it imposible not to roll on the rug, distributing white hair everywhere then having a little scratch to add a few more to the collection. Then the chihuahuas, who absolutely LOVE a piece of carpet to pee on, have developed a game of 'who can take a dump within the squares of the rug'. Get one in and you move forward two squares, hit a line and miss a turn! I think thats how it works. So the new lounge is in place, the dining room table is in pieces in the 'dining room' and the girls & I are installed in a new bedroom with Rich, who incidently didn't moan about us snoring once, last night although he did moan that Princess Lu Lu Luna Garside hogged the bed and dug her nails in his back.