Quick update – I feel like we are getting somewhere. The only person working on the regeneration today was me, a little painting in the back bedroom and patch filling in the front ones. We are going for the children being upstairs tomorrow night without carpets, we’ve got a bed frame up there already and the other one is going up in the morning. I’ve ordered blinds for the Velux windows in the bedrooms and bought some blackout Roman blinds for the actual windows. Upstairs will be inhabited again. I have high hopes for progress tomorrow, my wishes are for the underfloor heating to be connected and the handrail finished. I’ll let you know how it goes. x
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Day Sixty-Five
Friday again already, this is the weekend that we will sort the carpet out and the shower enclosure. Have to get them organised.
The tiles are in ready for the shower and the enclosure, had to go for the brick effect again despite trying really hard to go for a different look. They are big this time at least.
The painter has been busy upstairs again today, he’s started on the shutters, my essential extra in the back bedroom. The rhs one is not balanced yet but the man who can sort it out is coming tomorrow thankfully.
I have always wanted shutters, I just love them. My paternal grandparents had them in their Leopold Place flat and I spent hours opening and shutting them in the living room that nobody went into, unless it was a special occasion, of course. The room also held my Grandpa’s piano. He used to play the Sugar Plum Fairy for my sister and me to dance to. This actually meant jumping from one big blob on the carpet to another. The carpet was red and the blobs were very elaborate and colourful. There’s probably a name for the particular type of carpet – I’m sure it will be retro-cool again soon though it’s not the look we’re going for on the stairs this time.
The last image for today is the Hornsea Tapestry items that I promised you from the flea market last Saturday. The cruet set is going to be a fixture on the dining table. I need to get the pepper pot some white ground pepper which I’m sure is what would suit it best. I am so pleased with these pots it’s daft, I’m not sure where they will end up so they are gracing the window sill in the ‘big room’ at the moment.
Oh my word as I sit and type there is sleet battering the big windows, isn’t it May??? Brrr looks miserable, it started just as C was going to take the dogs out for a walk, he’s now watching Question of Sport until it clears. It keeps coming in waves, dogs still up for their walk though!
Wishing you all a lovely weekend, without any more mad rain and sleet, x
(He’s still not taken the dogs out)
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Day Sixty-Four
Things are moving again, thank goodness. The painter has got going on the woodwork upstairs, there is no way I could do the windows or doors and notice every drip or flaw for years to come. The tiles are going in for the ensuite shower tomorrow and the final push is starting on Saturday to get the long ‘to do’ list completed. We are tentatively hoping that the children can go up at the weekend, before the carpet comes, just for fun. If things go according to plan then we can start the emulsion in the back bedroom on Sunday.
I’m looking forward to showing you some finished room shots in the near future… I need to decide whether I can get H’s curtains to work in her new bedroom or whether to go for a blind to keep it simple. F will have a blind for sure. I’ve bought lovely narrow shelves for both the front bedrooms for prized possessions to be displayed on. I’m on the look out for some interesting furniture too, it’s hard to beat the blue and yellow Swedish superstore for value but I’d like to mix in some other pieces too. I drive my dear C mad by looking on gumbay and showing him potential purchases. I can tell by the look on his face what his opinion is and it is usually a ‘no’. I thought I was fussy. It seems odd to be buying other people’s unwanted furniture when we have sold and given away so much ourselves recently. One thing’s for sure – getting the house into some sort of order will be a long and laborious process.
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