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The Spare Room
Aug. 27th, 2007 10:36 pmWell, we've got about two thirds of the painting done, although we'll probably have to run over it all with a roller to give it a second coat. It doesn't really look very good, because the plaster is much more uneven than we realised. We'll obviously have to re-paper the entire room eventually.
John's decided that as we'll have to re-paper that room eventually, we might as well leave the wallpaper on one wall. The fact is that the whiteness of the rest of the room mitigates the hideousness of the wallpaper on the remaining wall, and the hideous wallpaper prevents the rest of it from looking too white, so if we still think that when we've done the rest of it tomorrow, we'll leave that wall papered and start painting the floor. In any case a lot of that wall is obscured by the wardrobe at present.
Unfortunately the Velux window's seal has become unsealed and we have condensation between the panes of glass. It doesn't seem as though there's anything we can do about that other than getting a new sealed unit.
It's just occurred to me that we've looked at three walls of the room and so far we haven't found an electric point. There must be one behind the wardrobe, surely? What will we do about the bedside lamp and the radio if there are no electric sockets?
Oh dear! I've just thought that if there is a socket behind the wardrobe, we'll have to change the layout I have planned and put the bed against the North wall, rather than the South wall, with the wardrobe opposite. At least if that is the case, my Sis won't have to look at the wallpaper, just at lumpy and uneven white walls.
John is sooo good! I didn't wake up until gone 9.00 this morning and John did the recycling, went out for the paper, came home and made a start on the room before I'd even surfaced! He said that he'd had such a good night's sleep that he wanted to get up and get on with things. God, I wish I could feel like that occasionally!
Charles and John get much more done than I can, but today I was able to paint the wall the window's in, which slopes as it's part of the roof outside, and I could do it with a roller and tray while sitting on a chair.
Tomorrow is Boys' Night Out, so I shall have to make sure John doesn't try to do too much, I want to go with Charles to the Beryl Cook exhibition at The Baltic on Wednesday, so we'll have to get as much as possible done Thursday morning, before my doctor's appointment and Friday afternoon, after my cardiology appointment, then do the finishing touches next weekend. Tomorrow I shall have to see if the council can take away the old wardrobe, which I think is too bad for Community Furniture, although I will ring and ask tomorrow. I'd like to get rid of the wardrobe before she comes, because it's in the yard at present and there's no room to sit out there with it taking up such a lot of room.
Of course, if I do get the yard looking presentable, it will probably rain the whole time she's here!
John's decided that as we'll have to re-paper that room eventually, we might as well leave the wallpaper on one wall. The fact is that the whiteness of the rest of the room mitigates the hideousness of the wallpaper on the remaining wall, and the hideous wallpaper prevents the rest of it from looking too white, so if we still think that when we've done the rest of it tomorrow, we'll leave that wall papered and start painting the floor. In any case a lot of that wall is obscured by the wardrobe at present.
Unfortunately the Velux window's seal has become unsealed and we have condensation between the panes of glass. It doesn't seem as though there's anything we can do about that other than getting a new sealed unit.
It's just occurred to me that we've looked at three walls of the room and so far we haven't found an electric point. There must be one behind the wardrobe, surely? What will we do about the bedside lamp and the radio if there are no electric sockets?
Oh dear! I've just thought that if there is a socket behind the wardrobe, we'll have to change the layout I have planned and put the bed against the North wall, rather than the South wall, with the wardrobe opposite. At least if that is the case, my Sis won't have to look at the wallpaper, just at lumpy and uneven white walls.
John is sooo good! I didn't wake up until gone 9.00 this morning and John did the recycling, went out for the paper, came home and made a start on the room before I'd even surfaced! He said that he'd had such a good night's sleep that he wanted to get up and get on with things. God, I wish I could feel like that occasionally!
Charles and John get much more done than I can, but today I was able to paint the wall the window's in, which slopes as it's part of the roof outside, and I could do it with a roller and tray while sitting on a chair.
Tomorrow is Boys' Night Out, so I shall have to make sure John doesn't try to do too much, I want to go with Charles to the Beryl Cook exhibition at The Baltic on Wednesday, so we'll have to get as much as possible done Thursday morning, before my doctor's appointment and Friday afternoon, after my cardiology appointment, then do the finishing touches next weekend. Tomorrow I shall have to see if the council can take away the old wardrobe, which I think is too bad for Community Furniture, although I will ring and ask tomorrow. I'd like to get rid of the wardrobe before she comes, because it's in the yard at present and there's no room to sit out there with it taking up such a lot of room.
Of course, if I do get the yard looking presentable, it will probably rain the whole time she's here!
