Sunday, 19 July 2009

Steve has been back a couple of times this week to finish off sanding the bannister, make the shelves for the airing cupboard and make the door for the understairs cupboard.

Shelves in the airing cupboard. At last I've got a proper home for the towels and bedding, freeing up the limited space in the temporary wardrobes. There's still room to store plenty of other items in here, which will eventually be sorted when we get time to go through the boxes we still have in the loft.



Paul sanded and painted the frame for the sliding door storage in the loft and I painted the doors. Paul also fixed the curtain rail and we now have curtains in the loft!


Sliding door storage now finished and the bed in a much better position. Daughter Deborah visited this weekend and gave it the thumbs up - she didn't hit her head on the sloping roof this time!



We started to sort through the boxes in the loft but there's still a way to go, we'll get there one day!

On Wednesday we went out for the day intending to buy the fire for the lounge. We changed our minds from the original fire we had chosen and we think this one would look better than the black one we first saw:

Unfortunately the shop wouldn't budge on price and as it's £100 cheaper online then it's Internet 1 : Retailer 0, and we'll now order it from an online shop.

Because this fire is a stone colour it means we'll now have to repaint the chimney breast darker than the oyster colour that it is now, otherwise there'll be no contrast and it will just disappear against the wall.


We've also ordered the two chairs for the sun lounge from Dobbies. As the shop wont deliver to where we live we bought online and I managed to find a 15% discount code which made the price much more attractive!



We had the Opal Wash option which is a nice light colour. I can see us getting a lot of use out of them, and using the sun room a lot, as they are so comfortable.





And I couldn't resist popping into a garden centre whilst we were out. Paul chose two Thrift plants, one pink and one white, as he had to leave some behind at the last house, and I chose a Veronica Blue Dwarf:

At the moment this is sitting on the patio, still in it's pot, next to the Sidalcea we bought last week. They look very effective together so hopefully we can put them near each other when we start sorting out the garden in a few weeks' time when it's safe to move things.



Today Paul has been taking up the old carpet in the second bedroom and screwing down the loose floorboards ready for when Bradley comes back to fit the remaining carpet. He's planning to come in two weeks' time on 1 August so then all we have to do is wait for the new bedroom furniture.