Hellish housework.

So coming up to Christmas I was deciding what I wanted for Christmas.I came up with the idea of getting my room.I was 11 when we were last doing the house up when we got an extention..I picked the colour purple.Which could have looked nice if it was a nice purple....BUT NO trust me to pick the ugliest shade in the shop.So my parents agreed to let me get my room painted as part of my Christmas one problem.They decided to get the rest of the house done.

First came the paint which made me excited because my room would be painted and my years of anger at myself for picking such an ugly colour vanished.We had to visit my most hated place ever.B&Q.The most boring place possible .The first few times your in its fun because you can play in the showers and run around but when you've done it so much you know every nouk and cranny of the place its a bit tedious.See with parents as a builder and ex-interior designer doing up our house is basically a past time.

We had to spend the whole day out because the people came to varnish the floors and we had to get out from under their feet.When we came back it was shoes off , hold your nose and run upstairs. Apparently putting an onion in each room over rides the smell but I think it makes the problem worse .I had to constantly explain to my friends coming over that there were onions in the hall because we were trying to get rid of the smell.And we discovered that the varnish may have caused my mam to get bronchitis just before Christmas.What a way to spend Christmas,Sick in bed.

Next came the painting. I'd come home from school afraid that my bag would hit off something or I'd accidentally lean against a wall.My room was last to be painted but I did get the colour that I wanted.I also had an idea that since I'm obsessed with travelling to get my mam to draw the world map on the biggest wall in my room.The blue walls would make it look as if its the walls are the sea. Downstairs the kitchen and sitting room were supposed to be grey but mam thinks they looks like a dirty beige and looks like just a normal house. There has always been a crazy feature in our house and it used to be our purple floral wallpaper (sounds gross but I swear it was nice) but since we painted over that it looked so average and normal. So we are going to have a big gallery wall in the kitchen with loads of personal photos of family and friends in different shapes and sizes.

Smaller new things came later such as the new light, mirrors and bed spreads.Its like living in a completely different house within the space of a few weeks!