roll out the carpet

Or perhaps - light at the end of the tunnel.  

Anniemay has finally finished scraping and filling (sounds like a dentist) and the bedroom is now ready to be decorated.  It’s taken longer than expected, because of ‘problems’ that we had not expected.  And so it goes.

Now it’s all hunky dory and ready for the paint roller. The final job was to dispatch the carpet to our local dump, which we did today.