It’s pretty stressful, but we think we’ve chosen the colours – now that I see them like this together I’m feeling good about it
So I have been painting Farrow & Ball Blackened, after putting a second coat on – it became apparent that I had used two different paints. It seems they do both ‘estate’ and ‘modern’ emulsion, the latter having shine to it. This shine incidentally puts the ceiling’s plaster finish to shame.
I must confess I wasn’t particularly in love with the colour and I think it’s time we were a bit more bold. A boldness similar to Louise’s dining room, which is still coming along with a new piece of furniture to finish painting.
Other colours under consideration, going to get some Fired Earth tester pots!
So three of the bedrooms upstairs have got new radiators as well as the landing, the shower glass has gone in – but the waste stack isn’t in yet, so can’t use it just yet.
First off, we should have painted the ceiling already – because now it’s going to be messy getting a mist coat on first. At least it’s only small!
We ordered 23 packs of tiles from B&Q, 6 packs of them were ‘cream’ but labelled as ‘grey’, so took those to local B&Q sorted that! In the end there were 3 tiles left!
I will give an update on progress soon, but for now lets just appreciate some colour.
Finally, sealed two rooms with windows to try and keep a little warmth; although we haven’t got radiators in most of the house and the underfloor heating in the lounge gets wired up later this week.
However what brightened the spirit was just the light in the room, good ole natural light.
Panoramas of the three of the bedrooms that are in progress.
It’s taking much longer than anticipated, but at least the rooms are starting to look like a blank canvas. The hallway just needs to be finished now.
Next week we should have render and windows on the dormers. We have a bathroom that needs fitting and tiling as well.
The downstairs flooring needs to be continued into the dining room, but I’ve had to order more of that anyway.
Today we were painting the front of the house, we only stopped due to the threat of rain. Louise got right to the top of the house on a long ladder whilst I steadied it from the bottom by lying on it.
Then we have a peak at the bathroom, not a lot going on and it’s dark. Then a couple of the other rooms.
So there is also progress upstairs, with the 4th bedroom being boarded, it’s easy to forget there are other rooms other than the LOUNGE.
Floor is in now, just need to wait for it to dry and underfloor heating and boards can go down. Hopefully the walls will be dry enough to start painting soon, we’ve got next week booked off work to get on it – also the outside of the house too.
Internal doors arrived today, 9 solid doors.
Update! This is a ‘floors and doors’ update, the floor upstairs was put in too!
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