I arrived at the house on Saturday morning to have a quick look around to see how Frank and his team were getting on, to discover a hole in the ceiling of the kitchen. Frank had fallen through the day before, he didn’t seem any worse off and cheerfully told me, whilst up a ladder plastering the lounge wall, that he was fine (will post pics tomorrow, seems I’ve forgotten my camera lead, again). It is a bit of a shock to the system to see a gaping hole in ones ceiling, which wasn’t intentionally made, but we are very pleased that Frank didn’t hurt himself.
Quick update on the weekend’s activities and house progress. We went tile shopping on Sunday to find tiles for the kitchen, T’s bathroom and to suss out potential hopefuls in the bid for pride of place in our bathroom. Having been assured by both Wouter *and* the salesman at CTM that I only need a nominal amount of ‘spotters’ in the bathroom I acquiesced and opted for 3 instead of the 10 I originally suggested (in my defence, 10 was a thumbsuck and suggested in the spur of the moment, having been placed under pressure by the question ‘So, how many of the patterened tiles do you think you’ll need?’ – I didn’t have a frigging clue!). I actually can’t wait to see how T’s bathroom is going to look, ‘cos the tiles we’ve (ok, mainly me) picked are beautiful. We found a suitable tile for the kitchen as well, fairly plain, one of those ‘goes with anything’ kind of tiles. Now the tricky bit is going to be deciding what colour the counters should be. I did spot a beautiful border tile for our bathroom, which we have noted – as we don’t know how much space is going to be tiled, it reallly didn’t make much sense to buy any now. T and I had fun , carrying sample tiles around the show room and holding them up against other tiles, baths, basins (pretty much anything we could lay our hands on) to see if they matched. I want to go for a pale green theme in our bathroom picking up the colour of our glass basin we’ve bought.Â
Once we’d exhausted the salesman and ourselves it was on to light fitting shopping. Being a Sunday our choice of shops was limited but we did manage to find two really cute chandeliers for J and T’s rooms. (Not what we’d originally gone out to find, but one has to carpe diem sometimes – not so sure W would agree with me :)). It has been J’s dream to have a chandelier in her bedroom, and now not only does she have one, but it is black as well! (very fitting for a wannabe/sortabe Goth gal). I saw a gorgeous fitting which I believe will look stunning above my bath, but we’ll have to wait a bit for that one (pretty much ‘we’re not there yet’ kind of thing).Â
On the house structure side of things, the lowered ceiling in the lounge is a thing of the past and we should be putting in ceiling boards soon. I believe that removing it has really made a difference and opened up the lounge a lot, one doesn’t get that claustrophobic feeling any more. T’s bathroom is ready to be tiled and fitted out, the bath is sitting in J’s room at the moment. The kitchen needs a new celing board (still can’t quite get over that one), but W knows more about the structural side of things.