A Bit Of A House Update

Basically, I get clobbered with an overwhelming sense of gloom every time I step through the front door. I should be all "YAY!" because the wallpaper steaming is finally done. Yes, even the awkward bits that involved stanley knives and mega awkward upside down scraping whilst getting my face boiled off by steam. DONE. But I'm not yay. I am Little Miss Feeling Sick because scraping all that wallpaper off has revealed some extra damp patches and some fairly monstrous cracks and awful ceilings that need boarding out. Urgghhhhhh, it looks like such a mess at the moment. Plus I can't do anything now. I'm itching to get in and start actually decorating but I can't...