when we first bought the house it was a shell
so we started to gut it
what we should have done was to knock the chimney out downstairs in the front room, that way we would have ditched the horrible sliding door arrangement in the upstairs room as well and freed up another 2 foot of space
but i decided that, as my brother and my dad weer at a loose end, they could do what they needed to do

how wrong was that assumption

first, my brother decideds to put several screws through the gas pipes, on christams eve, so you can imagine what the place was like with no heating (the pipes were 3/4 inch or soemthing rather than 22mm so that wasn't going to get fixed in a hurry)
then the boiler packed up
so we got it all sorted
then the bathroom floor starts to leak into the kitchen so, rather tha fix the floor he decided he was going to shell out on getting the whole bathroom sorted tiled and showered and everything
looks nice but it's a lot of money after you've just forked out for the boiler
then he decided that he needed to carpet the entire house so that was another £2500
and then he decided he would put up some wallpaper

twat

and then he decided he was going to paint the walls instead of stripping the paper back

even bigger twat

and i've recounted the tales of the £12k kitchen so i'm going to go to b&q or something and buy a tap and tops and job done