Chuckles Chuntering

This has been another week of hard work for Chuckles and her dad! My dad decided we needed more bookcases in the house so he bought one for dvds in the living room and one for my bedroom! (yea!) Yes I know, my room has nine bookcases already but I rearranged things so I could squeeze in another 3 shelf unit-one shelf for my audio books, plus a shelf each for dvds and excess hardbacks that have been lying around the house. I'm pleased with the results but my dad is knackered putting together these bookcases this week plus his big complicated cd unit-the one that had useless instructions that I mentioned in my other post. Last night I spent three hours getting my room sorted and finding homes for things so it is totally finished at last as far as tidying goes, which is a relief. 

I've been busy in the rest of the house too. I am declaring that the kitchen is pretty much completed and tidied to my satisfaction. My next task is to put that stained glass effect stuff on four windows in the house-my bedroom, the bathroom, the hall window and kitchen. That would complete the work in the bathroom, my bedroom and the kitchen. It is just a bit of tidying in the hall (bags of books to the charity shop and empty boxes to the dump etc), my dad has cds to sort into his units in his bedroom and some general tidying, then the final room to be tackled is the living room which looks a bit chaotic at the moment. We need to find homes for things or dump them. After that I'll go round all the cupboards and toss anything else I don't need or want but that can be done at leisure as everything is out of sight so it isn't getting on my nerves yet! Things are progressing nicely though. 

I have completed the first coat of varnish on the fence at the front of my house. It was really hard work as parts of the fence are down the side of an elevated driveway and hard to reach but it is looking nice. I think we might do the second coat next week if the weather is ok. We also have to do two coats of red paint to the fence at the other side of the front garden and paint the driveway gates before the front garden is complete. After that we need to tackle two coats of varnish on the big fence in the back garden and two coats of paint on the other fence in the back garden. *groans* Still a lot of work to do this spring and summer but my dad is getting a guy in to deal with the weeding, finishing the patio and stuff like that as we aren't really fit to do it. By the end of the summer the house and garden will finally be completed!

What DIY are you getting up to? Any spring cleaning going on?