Couple surrounded by paint and brushes

Easter Weekend DIY

With John being home over the Easter weekend I thought it would be a really good time to try to get a couple of things done around the house. Easter weekends seems to be a time when a lot of households dust of their paintbrushes and tools and get to work.

Our living room/ dining room is pretty big and it goes off into an ‘L’ shape at the back. This used to be our library but with Erin pulling and climbing everything, the bookcases had to go. That small space has been an awful orange colour since we moved in 3 years ago so I was determined to make it white like the rest of the room. We went in with a MASSIVE tub of white paint. The walls took 4-5 coats to completely cover the orange. While I’m so much happier now it does make me realise the rest of the room needs painting too now!

Orange wall in living room

White wall in living room

The living room is the next room on our list to get decorated properly but so far we’re having trouble finding the right paint. I love the Farrow and Ball colour we tried but I can’t justify the price tag especially when the walls aren’t in the best condition. They need skimming really and I don’t want to use expensive paint only to re-do it again in a couple of years.

The living room is the next room on our list to get decorated properly but so far we’re having trouble finding the right paint. I love the Farrow and Ball colour we tried but I can’t justify the price tag especially when the walls aren’t in the best condition. They need skimming really and I don’t want to use expensive paint only to re-do it again in a couple of years.

Decorating supplies

The garden also needed a bit of attention! Jackson dug holes all over the place and Erin fell in one a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been meaning to fill them in for a while now. Luckily, they weren’t too deep and didn’t take much soil to fill. I’ve now added in some grass seed and I’ll hope that it starts to grow soon.

While we didn’t go mad with the DIY, I am really happy with what did get done. I feel like now that these couple of jobs have been done I can concentrate of figuring out what to do with my newly painted area. At the minute it has no purpose whatsoever! 

11 thoughts on “Easter Weekend DIY”

  1. Easter weekend is the best time to get those jobs done. Fingers crossed the grass grows soon x

  2. I love weekend where you can just get stuck in with things that need doing, we really need a weekend like that sometime soon as there’s so much that needs doing around our house. You must be relieved to get that orange painted over! I love the essential bag of Maltesers thrown in with the garden stuff!

  3. yes I agree, Easter weekend is the perfect time to get a few things done. We did a few things including a spring clean x

  4. It always feels nice to be proactive with DIY around the house, and you are right, there is something about a Bank holiday that gets us running to B&Q! We’ve done absolutely nothing in our house! haha

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