Kc, I so know how you feel! My boyfriend is a compulsive DIYer. It's so hard coming home and not being able to chill out or even to be able to carry on working because of all the chaos! I suppose it will be worth it when it's all done (but it's been going on for 9 years!!!!)

9 YEARS!!!!! Ann, I really hope you haven't been in as much chaos for all that time as I am now. Unfortunately I can't enlist the help of my boyfriend as his musician status renders him useless at DIY apparently!

It's hard at the moment 'cos the kitchen and bathroom are being knocked about - I get distressed when things interfere with my ability to have regular cups of coffee and/or hot baths!! ;o)

Ann, when you're stressed by all the DIY activity in your kitchen, make yourself feel better by thinking of me with only a pile of brick dust where a kitchen should be! Good luck with it all ;)

Ann, you should apply to one of those TV programmes (maybe you've been on one already?!) - we'd all vote for you to have your house madeover! I remember seeing one man who had taken ALL of the doors off in the house - even the bathroom - and they weren't going back on any time soon...

Aww, thanks Sue and Kc. The thing is, my boyfriend is really good at DIY and it's just taken so long cos he's done so many big projects (loft conversion, ground floor extension, porch to name but a few!). and he only has weekends and evenings to do them. He'd be very offended if I wrote to DIY SOS, although he'd probably like to meet the team, it's one of his favourite programmes! ;o)

Ann, think I might kidnap your boyfriend for a month or so, releasing him only after he's done all my DIY!