OMG!

Cupboards and drawers and bedside tables are ARRIVING ON FRIDAY.

Destroying the beast

Our living room/bedroom is now about 25% bigger.

Curtains!!!

We picked up some curtains over the weekend. They are temporary, until we have some made, and they are a little bit short, BUT they make the room feel so much cozier. The sarong was good at keeping prying eyes out, but it really wasn't up to scratch! This is so much better... Meanwhile, the painting still is not finished, but I will be heading out to the DIY shops on BGR tomorrow to see whether they have any Dulux Nutmeg White...

Stalled

There has been a lack of posting. There has been a lack of DIY. Mostly to do with the lack of paint, but also largely down to lack of motivation. However! We still don't have any paint, but we do have some temporary curtains. They are peach. Or maybe salmon. Not really an ideal colour, but it will serve better than the sarong we currently have hanging there (see below post) and will be better at stopping the neighbours peering in. Of course, we have no curtain hooks with which to hang said curtains, but hopefully that should be fairly easily resolved...

Uh oh...

BUT

Something to brighten up the white

I am home without a voice today, but boredom drove me to start on another area in the flat. I need some painter's tape before I can start on all of the skirting boards, but I think this blue will look great with the white walls.

Ta da

WTF

The bookshelves might take longer than expected. This is the state of one of the walls. To be fair, it is the wall you can't really see, but still, I don't just want to paint over it so am painstakingly wetting and scraping it off.

One thing about all this DIY is it does make me feel better about not doing any exercise lately... scraping and painting are damn strenuous!

I'm a Googlewhack!

Searching for 'beanbaps' on the Internet only brings up one site - mine! Kind of excited by that...

Note the dodgy plastering on the bottom right of the wall. I think we will need to replaster it at some point, but for now having it white has made this room a lot lighter!

The next step will be the bookshelves. I am thinking of painting the back wall behind the books blue. I have some very pretty paint to use, so will post pics in the next few days (or whenever it gets done!)