Painting of the two landing cupboards is now completely finished so we've been able to put things in there for storage. We've spent a lot of time sorting out the boxes in the bedrooms and books, bathroom items and suitcases now all reside in the two cupboards, albeit temporarily until we get more organised. This makes the bedrooms a lot tidier and gives us room to move around.
Curtain rails have been fixed in the bedrooms and we have curtains! Real, proper curtains! They don't fit properly as they've come from the old house where the windows were much narrower and much taller but we can put up with virtually no drape and over-long curtains until we get around to choosing new ones once the carpets are laid:
The new ready-made curtains we chose for the loft last week had faults on both pairs and as we can't get back to Wrexham for a long time the shop allowed us to post them back (with a promise to refund the postage). New ones have been ordered which will be posted out to us when they are delivered to the shop.
We've made a start on sorting the boxes currently in the loft and it's getting easier to move around in there. The two cupboards from the office in our previous house are now in the loft and house my craft stash which I've started to sort out:
Last Sunday Neil started to tile the walls of the downstairs WC but couldn't complete the job as we didn't have the trim and this has now been ordered. He also installed the toilet but this proved to be an awkward job. The water supply was in the wrong place as it prevented the toilet from seating against the wall. The toilet had to be moved slightly to the left and unfortunately the water supply is now visible at the side of the pan instead of being hidden behind it. A flexi-waste was then needed for the outlet. The wastepipe for the sink had to be re-routed through the wall into the utility otherwise we would have had to box in pipework which would have been about 18" up the wall.
Petros and Helen have continued with the painting and the upstairs is now completely finished. The hall/stairs/landing is painted in Almost Oyster with feature walls on the dog-leg wall and the top landing being Malt Chocolate. This is the top landing (dog-leg wall still to be painted) and the colour shows up better on the first picture with natural light:
This now leaves the stairs up to the first floor, the hall, utility room and downstairs WC to be painted and the feature wall in the dining area to be papered. The lounge will have to wait until we can find a home for what's being stored in there at the moment. Hopefully that wont be too long as the carpets have been chosen, we have a good price from the local shop and an excellent fitter waiting for the go-ahead.
The final worktop was fixed in the kitchen on Friday but the hob isn't yet connected as we're waiting for Steve to come on Monday evening. I can't wait to be cooking with gas again as I just can't get to grips with the temporary electric hotplate I've been attempting to use. We still haven't got any wall tiles for the kitchen as the ones we saw last week cost £69 per square metre (and they're just 4" square ones) and there's no way we're paying that!
The first of the worktops was also cut for the utility room and today Paul has put the battens on the wall ready for the rest of the worktop to be fixed tomorrow:
We've been out in the garden today making the most of the good weather and it's the last time Paul can do anything as gardening is a no-no when receiving chemo. I've planted Bizzy Lizzies in the tubs and made a start on clearing the long border, hopefully disposing of more weeds than plants:
Paul transplanted one of the shrubs we brought from the other house and tidied up some plants. It's the small one to the left, the large green plant is a lovely white lily we've inherited.Tomorrow Paul goes into hospital for the start of his new chemo in readiness for his bone marrow transplant. We hope he'll be home by the end of the week.
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