Monday, 24 August 2009

Well, I was hoping to have some nice photos of the curtains and the feature wallpaper on the chimney breast to add but, as usual, things didn't go according to plan.

The fire was delivered, and very nice it is too, and Dunelm didn't take very long to make the curtains so those have been picked up. The wallpaper for the chimney breast has also arrived and B & Q kindly refunded on the paint we decided we didn't want after all. The replacement chair for the sun room also arrived and when I asked the driver if he was going to take the original chair away he said he had no uplift note so it's still here. Oh well, if they don't want it back I'm sure we can get a set of cushions for it and make use of it. I'm sure the cat will love it!

Once Paul started to feel better after his last cycle of chemo he managed to fix the roller blind in the kitchen.

So, not much to report but here's a couple of pictures until there's something more exciting to show:

The roller blind in the kitchen. It's a good match with the tiles, I think I would have preferred a striking contrast such as red but there was nothing else that would have tied in with it. Anyway, we're very happy with it, it has a suede effect so not quite a solid colour as there are slight shade variations due to the nature of the material.


Here's the new fire, a hang on the wall electric with pebbles. We had to change our mind from the gas fire we originally wanted as it wouldn't have been possible to drill through the random stone wall for the flue. As it's virtually the same colour as the paint the chimney breast is to be papered with a brown textured wallpaper.


Here's a pretty rubbishy video of the fire in action, Susan's first ever video and no idea why the picture is like this. Nowhere near as good as in the flesh and if you listen carefully I get a fit of the giggles at the end so I cut it short! I'll try and do better when the wallpaper is up.



Gary (gas) came today to remove the bit of gas pipe that is now redundant and was sticking out of the wall underneath the fire. You can just about make out the gas pipe if you enlarge the picture above the video. It looks small and insignificant but when you're sitting in front of it it's quite noticeable! He made a good job of cutting back the pipe and sealing it (or whatever the right thing to do is!). Paul patched the wall with a bit of plasterboard and has smoothed filler over it. Once it's dry he'll be able to wallpaper the chimney breast.

We also had a curtain track delivered which we ordered from the local shop. We want it corded one side only as it's too much of a stretch to have a cord and pulley in the corner behind the TV. So Paul unpacked it today to find out that we'd been given wrong advice and with this track you can't have a curtain each end of it, you have to have curtains on the one side only. Well, that will look stupid so now that's gone back and we have to find a track where you can have curtains each end and a pulley on one side only which operates both curtains so that they meet in the middle. Not too much to ask is it????