Bonus Weeks

Wednesday, 9 August 2017

I thought I would be back at work from Monday, but I've suddenly got an extra two weeks before that happens so aside from being able to co-ordinate the final few jobs in the kitchen,  I've also had time to do a few more things around the house including hanging up the cool hooks Zali made at school...

and painting the walls and ceiling of the kitching/dining/living area.  It looks great now, but it didn't go completely smoothly..that's a lovely trail of white paint there.

I first painted the walls in this area when we moved in a bit over 10 years ago.  Back then I used Dulux Spanish Cream Quarter to create a warm feeling in the room.  This time I've used a brighter white called  Dulux Natural White.   It looks great with the paintings and new kitchen cupboards. And it's also lovely to have the ceiling painted and looking brand new as it's taken a hammering from overly-tall christmas trees, various light installation and removals,  and other damage since the house was first built. Prepping and painting the ceiling was hard though - I cut my hand up while I was washing the ceiling when I stepped down from the step ladder onto the wet floor in my ugg boots and skidded so fast that I hit the floor with quite a thud.   As I know how hard it was to paint, anyone found damaging the walls or ceiling will find themselves doing an extra coat as I've got lots of paint left over!  Jon is probably the person most in danger of such a punishment, he's already been implicated in such crimes as the "double-sided stickytape on the ceiling incident (note double sided stickytape and its residue NEVER comes off), as well as the more recent 'new-holes-in'the-ceiling-for-the-novelty-light' incident.  He will be under surveillance.  

The other job I've done in this first bonus week is to finally finish the doorstep.  I took the metal strip thing off it years ago with the intention of sanding it back and re-varnishing it but it took until recently when I borrowed Clare's dad's 'Fesstool thing, which sucks the dust away as you sand. It was invaluable when I did the walls in the bedroom, and I've since used it for the windowsills in the kitchen (I didn't want everything around it to look great while the windowsill was all black and waterdamaged). In fact it was so good that I also moved onto the ones in the kids room, then eventually addressed the doorstep. Yesterday I finally attached the new metal thing on and adjusted the door so it will be draught-less - yay!