Lazy DIY

Why didn't anyone warn me? The literally endless list of minor tasks on the house is getting longer every day. My gf's parents are coming for the weekend so we've had to build an entire spare bedroom's worth of very cheap Chinese pine furniture from Argos. My view was that when they arrived we should present them with the flat pack and say, "there's your bed" but apparently that wasn't on, even though I'm sure they'd be more than happy to help and it'd give them something useful to do.

Having built the cheap Chinese pine furniture from Argos at the weekend we're now in the process of varnishing it. We're using extremely environmentally unfriendly quick drying plastic varnish because it's the easiest. Spending time varnishing seems justifiable because it should mean that we don't need to buy (and assemble) any more cheap Chinese pine furniture from Argos for longer than if we left it as untreated wood. It turns out that varnishing furniture takes way longer than painting the equivalent area of wall because of all the little fiddly bits. Very annoying. Maybe next time we'll buy the slightly more expensive Chinese furniture that's pre varnished. Curse the fact that getting more money to spend on the slightly more expensive Chinese furniture would involve working harder. Or is there another way to do this? Possibly involving some kind of CFC based spray gun, the garden and killing all the grass other than a bed shaped shadow?

As predicted I've become a home maintenance bore, and I've only been in the house for 10 days. Bugger.