SUNDAY AGAIN...

     Well at present my thoughts are mainly on getting the house finally sorted so lots of discussions on walls , floor, paper, paint, carpet, tiles, it is endless but also so exciting!

I placed the brown wallpaper near this watercolour in the hall , that's by the understairs cupboard, which allows us to see it against wood, even if the wrong colour wood.

 

 

I think it will be the brown!! The hall floor will be oak wooden boards , maybe a creamy paint for the walls, crisp white woodwork for the places that's not staying wood.....or maybe cream woodword! 

We'd ordered some wood we need for the hallway, having finally decided that really we don't need new stairs! It's just that some of them do creak ( about three) but not that bad and if they were carpeted, Paul would probably barely notice the sound that at present annoys him. He has tried stopping the noise but without dismantling the middle of the stairs  , making it a nightmare job, he'll just have to settle for a small amount of creaking!

And although a lovely set of oak stairs sounds nice, saving the money for other things sounds much nicer and saving the time and energy of having to wait for that all to happen, before moving on sounds even better!

 

Plus because we are have decided not to get a whole new set of stairs, Paul's been working on them this weekend ! When we first moved in there was a wall on one side of the stairs and a bannister on the other side with the understairs cupboard, the door of which you can see in above photo.

 

Well we do like knocking down walls, so a good few years back we knocked down the wall beside the stairs to open up the wallway, it allowed much more light in. Since that happened we have just left the stairs open, undecided on what if anything we'd do. Now we've finally decided to refurbish them. The only access to understairs before wall came down, was the door above but since then we've had easier access from the other side mainly because it's been wide open!

So lots of dicussion on whether to close that side back up completely and go back to accessing from orginial doorway but since the house is a cottage size, so not a lot of extra space, we decided to keep just one access door from the 'wall' side,as this would save us having to almost empty the understairs cupboard shown , in order to access anything in that side of the under stairs.

I'm taking photo's as Paul works , so will share them next Sunday, when he's completed a little more and then you'll be able to understand what we're doing.

This week I also played musicial pictures! Moving the pictures already hanging in the hallway, and trying others around to get a feel of what could go where , once it's all decorated. Which is why this picture is now in the place of the watercolour in the first photo.

 

No doll play at all this week due to household things, very windy weather, plus I am feeling a bit under the weather as they say, hoping it will be gone soon ,as I really must get more things done ! 

 Hattie and Zak came outside with me to get some fresh air.

Then Hattie looked at Zak and said " Stop wobbling!"

 

"I'm not wobbling!" Zak replied 

"Oh ye........" and with that Hattie fainted! 

"HATTIE!" cried Zak , horrified to see his big strong sister fall to the ground.

So not only did I have to deal with an obviously unwell Hattie, I had to calm down a very upset Zak who was convinced Hattie was in need of an ambulance and full emergency A&E team !

 

I think Hattie may just have the bug that appears to be doing the rounds and so was put to bed to rest, with Zak insisting on watching over her in case she needed him to call for help.

I'm not sure how long Hattie will let him stay as when I left the room I heard Hattie tell him if he poked her one more time to check if she was concious, she'd call Robin to throw him out ! 

So on that note I'll wish you all a lovely healthy week ahead.

Dee