During the week the utility room and downstairs WC had their two coats of colour. Unfortunately Cornflower White (for the WC), which looked a nice pale shade of grey on the colour card, turned out to be very blue and general opinion is that it just doesn't go with the tiles and curtain so we'll have to ask Petros to repaint in Timeless (an off-white) which should look better.
Jasmine White for the utility which is a lot creamier than the photos shows.
Cornflower White in the downstairs WC which in real life is very blue compared to the photo:
Two walls on the stairs were papered with 1700 grade lining paper and the stairs and hall are now ready for painting. The feature wall in the dining area was also papered and this finished the kitchen/diner as far as decorating goes. Now the paper is up it looks more pink than red, probably because it's a metallic red and is reflecting the light from the window on the opposite wall. Skirting boards can't be painted yet as we're still waiting for the floor to be levelled:
Paul returned from hospital on Thursday and we set about moving the dining table and chairs into the dining area which has freed up space in the sun room:
While Paul was away I was busy sorting out a lot of the stuff in the lounge and moving it up into the loft for now. I also sorted out more of the boxes in the loft and found homes for the contents and cleared the loft enough for our first visitor this weekend, daughter Deborah. We'll now be able to move some of the remaining items from the lounge when Petros wants to start painting in there and there will be room for these in the sun room.
Steve ordered for the parts needed to fit the hob but they haven't yet arrived so I still have no hob to cook on.
Today (Sunday) I was back in the garden. I planted a dwarf rhododendron and a cranesbill geranium along with the dwarf runner bean seeds and cleared a little more of the final border.
Dwarf rhododendron "Keleticum" which will grow to about 40cm high, then the fuschia we inherited from the previous owner, the shrub we brought with us and the large white lily just coming into flower:
Cranesbill geranium "Sanguineum", paeony lactiflora (double pink) and one of the runner beans.
The border with the rest of the runner beans:
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Hi Susan and Paul, I can't get your email address to work, so trying thru this blog to say HI. Hope Paul is feeling much better now, Love Lois and John
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