I haven't posted about the house for ages, mostly because I haven't been around enough to do much with this project at all! Some months ago (July to be precise) I moved out of the bedroom I use as an office here and into an attic, so we could redecorate the office. To cut a rather long story short, After several holes in walls and other such carrying-on, I'm finally back into my office!

We went from this (you can't really see how nasty the grey paint was or how much the previous wallpaper pattern was showing through)

Surprisingly this happened:

Less surprisingly, this happened (my house is > 100 years old, brick internal walls throughout, and sometimes the plaster has got tired of hanging on!)

Now that corner looks more like this:

And my desk is back where it should be, yay!

Thanks to everyone who offered to help with hanging wallpaper in response to us struggling so much to make this happen - it was our first time hanging wallpaper but that wasn't the hard part. This project stalled badly due to a combination of lack of time on my part and the sheer volume of prep needed on a house this age which has been neglected! Thankfully my parents came for lunch last weekend and pushed us in the right direction with a combination of instructions and practical help :)