A little peek at what I have been doing this past week..........

I started on the basement last week.  At one end of the main room, there is a built in unit.  All made with Ikea units by the previous owners.  The main work on this section is painting the units in white with a semi gloss.

On the wall behind the shelves they had put some paper, which was dropping off, so I had pulled it off ages ago.  It was taped on with sellotape/scotch tape???  So it was never going to stay put?

The middle shelf came out to paint, and I decided to put up this peel and stick wallpaper.

It looks lovely.  A pain in the butt to match up, as there are two strips of paper, and the match meant wasting at least six to ten inches each time.  However my mother gave me a great tip of cutting the lengths of the first strips, then cutting the next strip before putting up so I could see which strip matched the first one the best.  I know I haven't explained that well, sorry.  Also got hubby to mark a square straight line in the middle for me, as the units weren't truly square.

I painted the middle wall between the shelves, and  it only took the one coat.  All the unit was painted twice with semi gloss.  I got the wallpaper from Amazon, this one.  Great quality and once I got the hang of it, pretty straight forward to hang.

Hubby is now changing the electrical socket in the lower middle unit, and of course there is a problem with it (((SIGH)))  Thankfully he has the tools and knowledge to sort it all out.  I then have to put the books back etc, before moving on to another part.

The next part I am tackling is straight forward, BUT has five doors in that area, all to paint ((((SIGH)))) 🙄