As Requested

This is a pretty graphic and seems appropriate as we still have fireworks going off around here on a nightly basis, just the bangers.  I am not against fireworks as such, in fact I love to see the pretty ones, no, it is the endless thumping explosions.  I suppose we will get them for another week and then all will go quiet until New Year.

Quite a few of you requested before and after pictures of our living room.  Well, we did not take any "before" so when your requests started coming in comments, all we had left was one wall with the border stripped away.  Still, it does show the peach colour that it used to be.

If you look closely you will see the line at the top where the border used to be. Mike worked hard on the room and it took a long time because we cannot take furniture out of here, there is simply nowhere to put it. It could only be moved from one side to the other.  Basically he had to do one wall at a time.  As the walls needed two coats of paint the whole rigmarole had to be gone through again and then there was all the cleaning up.  Still we are very pleased with the results.  Here are a couple of pictures:-

I do not think the true colour shows. It is slightly more golden than this. We can never get the whole room into a photo because of its small size and, of course, it will be much brighter when Spring comes again and we get much brighter days.  We replaced the wall lights, relatively inexpensive ones but they look good. In fact I liked them so much I have put a pendant shade and a table lamp in the bedroom that are identical. I do not think a designer would particularly care for my mix of Victoriana and Egyptian!

Even with hazy sunshine coming in, we still had to put the lights on to try and capture the colour.  The patio doors are the only natural light coming into the room, our only "window".  Still I think the photos give you the flavour of our "new" room even if we cannot capture the colour exactly.  I have ordered a new rug as we have had the current one I made down for around ten years.  It will seem strange at first but I think a change is called for.

As some of you know, I am not posting on a daily basis anymore. I was spending too many hours on here every day and those hours seemed to grow longer each week.  So I have decided on every couple of days or so.  It is amazing the things I have been able to catch up on since cutting down my time.  I have measured up for new net curtains throughout the property and ordered them, started getting my Christmas presents organised, cleaned out a cupboard, been through stacks of old videos (ones we recorded) and thrown them away, plus other things.  So, I think I have found the correct balance for computer time.

Today is very dull and gloomy and quite a lot colder than it has been of late, much more like November weather after quite a warm spell. The only trouble being that we have to have lights on all the time so it seems more like permanent evening.  I am a person who likes daylight.

Well, dear readers, until the next time.