DaisyDaisy
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Unashamedly requesting encouragement.... almost exactly one year in to our project, I’m flagging.
Working full time on the renovation (took early retirement to do so), getting in a builder for the structural things (putting in the steels), specialists where needed (new stone mullions), learning what I think I can feasibly take on (pointing course was worth its weight in gold).... and so it goes on. Living in the renovation, pretty much all our household stuff is in storage so we are living with the minimum. I miss my books, I miss all these things that I thought made me me. I’m becoming ragged around the edges and have aged hugely this year. Find it pretty much impossible to take a day off, all I can see is jobs to do. It’s not that I’m not enjoying it, I’m just flagging, slowing down and feeling a bit lost.
The project is moving on, I can see that, but listing the jobs still to do is overwhelming. I know it’ll look lovely when it’s done, I’m just losing sight of that on a day to day basis.
I read so many threads on here, you all seem to have ‘been there, done that’. It’s hugely helpful- thank you. Please send wise words my way... how did you get through? Through not to ‘finished’, just to ‘finished enough’ to have a life as well as a renovation..... by the way, if anyone mentions they are still at it after 10/15... years, please just don’t!
Working full time on the renovation (took early retirement to do so), getting in a builder for the structural things (putting in the steels), specialists where needed (new stone mullions), learning what I think I can feasibly take on (pointing course was worth its weight in gold).... and so it goes on. Living in the renovation, pretty much all our household stuff is in storage so we are living with the minimum. I miss my books, I miss all these things that I thought made me me. I’m becoming ragged around the edges and have aged hugely this year. Find it pretty much impossible to take a day off, all I can see is jobs to do. It’s not that I’m not enjoying it, I’m just flagging, slowing down and feeling a bit lost.
The project is moving on, I can see that, but listing the jobs still to do is overwhelming. I know it’ll look lovely when it’s done, I’m just losing sight of that on a day to day basis.
I read so many threads on here, you all seem to have ‘been there, done that’. It’s hugely helpful- thank you. Please send wise words my way... how did you get through? Through not to ‘finished’, just to ‘finished enough’ to have a life as well as a renovation..... by the way, if anyone mentions they are still at it after 10/15... years, please just don’t!