When I blogged about our recent DIY project, I remember mentioning how quickly I felt things were progressing. How fast it seemed to be coming together with J working on it all week rather than just on weekend. I also remember being so excited to get my hoover out and get cracking on cleaning the mess up once this was all over.

Truth is…it took a little longer than I thought it would. 2 whole months. My fingers were itching to get rid of the utter mess J caused during those 2 months but it’s finally over and I’m so pleased with the result. We now longer have to live with a hole in the wall. I finally have some space to store my shoes!

I would have been satisfied with an understairs which, bluntly speaking, would simply be a hole in the wall with a door to make it look pretty and normal on the outside. I wasn’t particularly bothered what it looked like on the inside.

However, being ever such a perfectionist, J insisted on “doing it once and doing it right” (his quote not mine). He painstakingly boarded up the entire cavity (including the walls and floors) – making sure to leave a removable plank for the toilet plumping adjacent to it.

Filled all the gaps between the boards and filed them down – twice.

He painted them – twice.

Laid the floor with carpet tiles ( I would have been satisfied with the cement floor).

And got white shelves to go with the now white cupboard. Not to mention the amount of time and effort he took to source for the exact same skirting board just to make it blend better with the rest of the skirting board in the hallway only to end up ripping the ones off our master bathroom instead (he’s just created another DIY project for him there…).

But I’m ecstatic with the end result! It’s perfect! I was amazed how much space we’ve gained.

1 DIY project down…a gazillion others left to do…It’s fun having a house!