Building Model Aeroplanes

The internet is such a friend when your on your own so instead of shutting the door of wherever you are resting your head and disolving into a blubbering heap in front of Sleepless in Seatle for the hundreth time, get online and research how much it will cost to put 7 radiators and a boiler into a terraced house!
How much will 12 double glazed windows cost, which are the normal cracks and which ar...

e the 'run a mile' cracks that you should look for, could you spot the signs of damp? Its all on there and armed with the facts you should quickly be able to make an overal appraisal of each property with a simple tick box system that you have compiled from your research. Keep it simple so it doesn't take an age but include all the points that you'll need to catch in each room so that your mind can't be distracted by the his and hers monogrammed towels.
You can then take that list home and do a more in depth report, costing out what each property will cost you and be able to compare them logically. Make a 'possibles' pile and an 'in my dreams pile' and then chuck that pile away, no matter how tempted you are. You've been through enough, don't load more heartache upon yourself by overstreaching finacially or by thinking you can change a manhole when you've never even changed a plug.

Its even more sensible still to think about how much time and energy you will be able to commit also. How long will it take you to strip, replaster and redecorate a room when you have a job, 4 kids and two dogs to walk? If you don't know find out. Ask a friend "how long did it take you to redecorate your living room?" Realistically calculate how many spare hours (or minutes) you have in a day and devide the time it took them by the time you have spare to come up with how long it will take you to do the same job. 5 years? best choose a ready decorated house then!

But seriously, you are healing, slowley nuturing yourself back to the glory that you once where and your shattered self esteme will not be able to take your Jiminy Cricket voice telling you that your useless because you haven't got that tiling finished in the downstairs loo yet.  

Its very very rewarding to build a new world around yourself and you can do it as fast or as slow as your time and finances will allow but its very very important to fit it to suit you. If you don't like decorating, don't take it on, find a property that fits you and will re-build you in other ways "I could really bring that garden back to life" "I could make that spotless but cold new-build into a home with my talent for making cushions and curtains"

Try to look for something within the house that you can do well, that will make a difference. What is your talent? (you may have to look quite far back if you've lost who you are in couplesville) Go on you know you have one, everyone does if you look deep enough. What have you done thats made you proud of yourself? Not others proud of you, what made YOU proud. You can bet your bottom dollar you can link that to something you can do in your new home that will help to begin to restore your faith in yourself. Put that on your check list too  'am I going to be able to make a space in this house to build and display my model aeroplanes' (you know those ones you stopped making because your partner said it was a waste of time) Its going to be YOUR home, YOUR space and you can do whatever you want with it. Isn't it exciting!