Tuesday 23 August 2016

Funky colours

Hello again. We have been mad busy decorating. We have done one bedroom at the rear of the house, although I still need to paint the furniture, buy a bigger bed etc. we have been trying to be very thorough when painting - filling in all the holes/gaps along skirting etc; painting ceilings and glossing all the woodwork. My thinking is that if we do it really well this time, any future decorating will be much easier.
We have now moved in to my youngest's bedroom at the front. She wanted black (!) but I have talked her round to a very dark grey on one wall only. It looks amazing. I just need to do some neatening of the edges (my brush was too big for the cutting in) and gloss the woodwork. When I've done, I'll post photos.
There is so much to do, that it's very easy to become rather overwhelmed, but we are trying to bite it off in chunks.

As I mentioned in my last post, there are some pretty wacky colours in this house....

One of the rear bedrooms 

The downstairs shower room

Inside the music room cupboard 

The office 

Another of the bedrooms 

More pink 

Decals on one of the bedroom walls. 


My youngest's bedroom. That is brick effect wallpaper. Well it was, until I painted over it yesterday! 

Even the front door - a lovely stable door from my wish list - is painted baby pink! I have bought a delicious soft green for that, but have yet to get round to painting it. It's either too sunny or showers...

We are almost through 10 litres of white emulsion already. Goodness knows how much more we'll use to get the house looking how I want it to.....

In reply to some of the questions from the last post :- Jet is absolutely loving it here. He is like the proverbial pig in clover. We haven't needed to actually walk him yet as he can lolop around the plot with gay abandon. He's still recovering from his op and still limps a bit, but we will get there. The cats.... Our female cat, Freya, has settled very well and is managing the cat flap (a new concept to them). She is quite grave and going outside. Oscar, the black male cat, who disgraced himself so often before we moved is still regularly leaving us 'gifts' in the house. He knows how to get in and out of the cat flap, but is too nervous to do so. We put him out of the  front door and he dashes straight round the back, through the flap and  back upstairs to his spot in the sun. I guess patience is needed with him. 

More soon x 


12 comments:

  1. Whoooo that is very colourful. Can't wait to see what it's like when you have worked your magic-x-

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    1. If I can EVER work out how to upload my photos now!

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  2. I am so excited for you. I also am painting like crazy right now. The weather is really hot so it is hard work.

    I cant wait to see more pictures

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  3. I love inside the music room cupboard, I would just have to live in there until all the other rooms were toned down. Gosh I hate pink, and those bright colours take such a lot of covering over with white don't they, I've been there and done that :-( I think you will need a lot more litres of brilliant white before you're finished.

    Glad the animals are settling down in their own ways.

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    1. You and you're love of green :) trust me though - it's a a mess in there, so you wouldn't be very comfortable. Besides it's now full of 350 DVDs!

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  4. You do have a lot of painting ahead of you, someone definitely liked color. How great that you're going to have a music too.

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  5. You certainly need sunglasses but I am sure it will look amazing once you have finished with it. How wonderful to have a music room.

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  6. I can see why you are in such a hurry to paint, I really couldn't live with pink walls. We have pink carpet that we will have to live with for a while but at least it isn't eyewateringly pink :)

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  7. I think those people who painted those colours should've gone to Specsavers! They're enough to give you a headache, are they not? Best of luck with the painting!
    Margaret P

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  8. PS - if you thought some of those colours a bit 'loud' then you should've seen how a property was decorated on yesterday evening's Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb. It took "a feature wall" to new heights (or lows, depending on your views on heavily patterned modern wallpapers mainly in the black and silver spectrum!)
    Margaret P

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    1. Yikes! At least ours is coverable with paint albeit it many coats.

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