Defenses that won't hold up in court: a) she offered b) she was down there anyway.

Bloggers, beautiful bloggers, welcome. Welcome to How I Met Your New Cistern. A much short tale than How I Met Your Mother, I promise.

Let's start at the very beginning (A very good place to start)

Woohoo. Love me some mission brown and mobility aids! And all of that room to hold toilet paper - that thing there would hold what, 17 rolls? 

After a paint job!

Now obviously, the removal of the brown has done a lot here. As has the removal of mottled glass. Much lighter and fresher. But that cistern, yuck. Yellow discolouring, visible pipes. Nope. Not living with that. 

So off Squirrel and Badger went to buy a new cistern! $77 for those playing at home, but this was at trade price, thanks to Badger. 

This girl loves new dresses. But dresses are on hold until this house is done! Toilet purchases are more fun anyway, right girls? Girls? Anyone? Oh god I want to buy dresses.

Here is badger, reading the instructions.

After pulling the old one off, adjusting the height of the tap, and cutting a hole to install new backing for the cistern to attach to. 

Here is squirrel helping in a 'pass me the shifter' capacity. Also playing with the new seal which we got for free when Badger went back to the plumbing shop - the salesman asked if it was for 'that charming daughter of yours' and gave it to him for free. Haha! I'm charming. 

Normal poses are unheard of in our family. Vacuuming after the worst job in the world - plastering. (I say worst job in the world, but I've worked in finance, so after that, nothing is too bad. True story)

And so - the plastering is complete, and squirrel gave it an undercoat and two top coats to get us a blank canvas once more.

 And - it's complete! Hanging the cistern was the easy bit after all of the other stuff! How much better and cleaner does that look?!  Below is a side-by-side for comparison!

And so completes the smallest room of the house! Looks a million times better. We're slowly removing all signs of age from this house. It's incredible to look back on the before pictures to see how far we have come. The inside of the house is now, for all intents and purposes, brand new. And it's all been cosmetic. Amazing. 

The biggest of all thank-you's to the Badger for all of his work here. We heart Badger.

Lastly, here is a little purchase for the back of the toilet door that Squirrel wants. If you're going to have a bit of a session you may as well learn something useful. You never know when you may need to take control of a police car while on a high speed pursuit. OSCAR CHARLIE FOXTROT !!!! From here  $12.07 - Just choose a colour! I'm thinking a bright green!