Must be French taste @Obelixx. One of my guest rooms has a huge mural of New York, a wall covered with textured grey bricks wallpaper and a beam painted bright red. My grandsons like it so I haven't changed it.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Yikes, the other rooms make that wallpaper looked quite restrained in comparison! Well, we ordered the carpet yesterday. I took my paint samples and a pillow case, and we chose a neutral grey blue shade we both liked, called Slate, and it’s being fitted next week. All very straightforward, very clear what the individual costs were, and all in all, a fairly pleasant experience, even the bill was less painful that I’d anticipated. However, I woke in the night convinced I have ordered an almost black carpet! It’s not on their website, so I can’t check, and I don’t want to have to drive back to the store to check. Not sure there is much I can do about it now anyway. Trying to convince myself that I was just having a bad dream, I’d never have picked anything that dark. Also deciding to accept that it is going to be almost black, and it’ll be a relief on the day to find it isn’t.
Lovely sunny day, but flipping freezing. Builder here at the moment, and judging by the amount of teeth sucking going on, we are talking lots of money.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Happy birthday to @Busy-Lizzie's OH I hope you have a good celebration. Excellent news re hubby, @Pat E It's a lovely day weatherwise, I will be in the garden, pottering about. I need to wrap up warm, I think. I hope we all can find a little kindness today.
Good morning. The 12kg bag of dog food I ordered a week ago turned up bright and early this morning. They usually deliver within 3 days, so by yesterday, I'd run out of it. With 4 hungry mouths to feed, I had to go out for another 12kg bag. So we decided to take a picnic and go into the hills; we sat in the car on top of the Horseshoe pass enjoying the snowy views before heading off to pick up said dog food. If anyone wants me this afternoon, I can be found in the 'office' (aka greenhouse)
Teeth sucking from builders is never a good sign @punkdoc. Glad things are OK @Pat E. And my heart goes out to you over the loss of your daughter. My aunt lost a son in a traffic accident. The year before I, as a young teenager, was sent to stay with his wife whilst he was away on a long haulage trip. She was awful to me but I didn't know how to handle it. So it was no surprise that she cut all ties with the family after Tom died. Stake has arrived to get my tree upright - so better get on and do that.
@Busy-Lizzie I have kept the mural but painted the dark grey and the paper in the alcove a pale grey. It's a vast improvement and nicely quirky for a guest room but definitely not for an everyday room.
@Ergates When some Belgian friends came to visit soon after we moved here they took one look at those stripes and said they must be English! I really don't like wallpaper.
Sanding done and dusted. Doorframes surrounded with masking tape. Lunch cooked and eaten and a poolish based bread on its final prove. Having a cuppa then getting out the paintbrush and roller again.
I take it the insurance will cover at least some of the costs @punkdoc? Hope so. Happy staking @didyw.
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Well, we ordered the carpet yesterday. I took my paint samples and a pillow case, and we chose a neutral grey blue shade we both liked, called Slate, and it’s being fitted next week. All very straightforward, very clear what the individual costs were, and all in all, a fairly pleasant experience, even the bill was less painful that I’d anticipated.
However, I woke in the night convinced I have ordered an almost black carpet! It’s not on their website, so I can’t check, and I don’t want to have to drive back to the store to check. Not sure there is much I can do about it now anyway. Trying to convince myself that I was just having a bad dream, I’d never have picked anything that dark. Also deciding to accept that it is going to be almost black, and it’ll be a relief on the day to find it isn’t.
Lovely sunny day, but flipping freezing.
Builder here at the moment, and judging by the amount of teeth sucking going on, we are talking lots of money.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Excellent news re hubby, @Pat E
It's a lovely day weatherwise, I will be in the garden, pottering about. I need to wrap up warm, I think.
I hope we all can find a little kindness today.
The 12kg bag of dog food I ordered a week ago turned up bright and early this morning. They usually deliver within 3 days, so by yesterday, I'd run out of it. With 4 hungry mouths to feed, I had to go out for another 12kg bag.
So we decided to take a picnic and go into the hills; we sat in the car on top of the Horseshoe pass enjoying the snowy views before heading off to pick up said dog food.
If anyone wants me this afternoon, I can be found in the 'office' (aka greenhouse)
I do hope all your Fridays are peaceful ones
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad things are OK @Pat E. And my heart goes out to you over the loss of your daughter. My aunt lost a son in a traffic accident. The year before I, as a young teenager, was sent to stay with his wife whilst he was away on a long haulage trip. She was awful to me but I didn't know how to handle it. So it was no surprise that she cut all ties with the family after Tom died.
Stake has arrived to get my tree upright - so better get on and do that.
@Ergates When some Belgian friends came to visit soon after we moved here they took one look at those stripes and said they must be English! I really don't like wallpaper.
Sanding done and dusted. Doorframes surrounded with masking tape. Lunch cooked and eaten and a poolish based bread on its final prove. Having a cuppa then getting out the paintbrush and roller again.
I take it the insurance will cover at least some of the costs @punkdoc? Hope so. Happy staking @didyw.