Project 'Paint Everything In Sight'

Yes, we've been decorating . . . well for the most part Martin has been decorating - almost every room in the house has had at least a lick of paint, but the living room is scheduled for a bit more of a makeover. 

While I was away visiting family, Martin refreshed all the magnolia paintwork and the coving - with everything piled into the middle of the room while he worked.

Then it was on to more de-cluttering of cabinets and bookshelves, and a lengthy debate over some interior design questions.

Having taken the curtains down while decorating, we realised how much lighter the room was without them - so should we leave them down? 
(While there are blinds on all the windows, they did look a bit bare without the curtains in place.) 

And, feature wall, or no feature wall?

In the end we did go for something a bit different . . .

Gold metallic paint on the end wall, and round all the window recesses - which are now framed with voile panels instead of curtains.  Must admit I'm rather pleased with it!

Posts that Didn't Happen - March 2022

And on to March . . . 

Started the month with the death of my old Kindle, and the setting up of a new one with lots of enhanced features - the backlight will be particularly useful for reading at night!

Some baking - with my own version of Malteser Chocolate Cupcakes, which went down a treat.

And lots of 'Folly' related activity . . .

Martin had finished construction on the new wood storage round the back of the Folly so I painted it with wood preserver.  While inside the Folly I'd got the skirting boards stained and varnished and various 'gaps' sealed and caulked - plus a bit of additional 'cosmetic' pointing on the feature wall. 

We also got a 'garden path' laid down to the Folly - 'inlaying' the slabs by removing sections of turf - which handily could then be used to re-turf the 'scar' from the trench that was dug for the electric cabling back in December.

A path that will come in very useful in wet and muddy weather!

So, Two Year's On from the start of home-working and I was nicely settled in the Folly, with a proper desk set-up.

With the decorating done, I'm also beginning to move other bits and pieces in - next job, getting it fully furnished!

Keeping the Walls Warm . . .

After the wall in the downstairs bedroom, time to tackle the ones upstairs.  This time we don't think it's actual damp, but condensation from the cold outside wall leading to damp and mouldy wallpaper around all the windows.

So we've replaced the existing paper with an insulated thermal version.




Now we have nicely decorated cream walls - no black patches or damp - will have to see how it holds up in the colder weather (assuming we get some this year!).

Painting the Hall Cream

Our Easter break didn't involve much 'painting the town red', but we did get an awful lot of decorating done.

The hall (upstairs and downstairs) is now a nice shade of cream (or was it magnolia?), and the woodwork has all been refreshed as well.

Touching up the paintwork was one of those jobs we'd been planning on doing for ages, so glad it's done . . .

Can forget about it now for another ten years hopefully!

Decor Done

Finally finished the downstairs guest bedroom - floor done - wall round the window sealed, and plastered over.  Time to varnish the new skirting boards, and paint the walls and radiator.

All done now - looking good - just hope the window area is fixed and the water stays out!

Bedroom Blue(s)

With all the work that's been done on the house this year, you'd think we'd have had enough - but instead we seem to have generated some momentum to tackle other jobs.

Redecorating our bedroom was high on that list . . . well high on my list, not sure that certain other people were really that bothered!

Stripped back the damaged wallpaper off the main back wall, and between us repainted the ceiling, other walls, and woodwork.


After much searching / ordering of samples of wallpaper finally decided on a duck egg blue feature paper for the back wall, which Martin and his Dad duly put up for me.




Really pleased with the result - just waiting for the new king-sized bed (on order) and that's another room more or less done with!