The story so far (part 2)

As I said, we were going to start by doing some decorating and starting off with something like this...Then we discovered some problems!

We were aware of a bit of a damp problem and needed to sort out a new damp course but the damage to the plaster work was more extensive than we thought. So we bit the proverbial bullet and started taking the old plaster off the walls. This is the sort of thing that we ended up living in for the next few months.

All good fun, really - bearing in mind we are heading into winter, had no insulation, no radiators, no walls etc.! The things we do :)