Daydream thread continues.....

Rummer

We have taken months to do one room, I dread to think how long it would take us to build a house :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

It is due to be dry tomorrow so I am hoping to get a bit more done in the garden.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Yeah.

Probably doesn't take you a week to paint one room though.

Bet it does, if we have to put coving up first.

When we did Dad's bungalow, we got a plasterer friend to do the coving. It was quite upsetting, watching him do what takes us hours in about 15 minutes!

We are both a bit OCD about some things though. Even building the polytunnel was problematic at times. Mostly we agree, but when we don't.....:eek:
Our worst experience was when someone built a floor for us. We didn't like the way they did it, so we let them finish, then we pulled it all up and laid it the way we wanted it done! :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all:j

talking of painting... the antique place is having a bit of a jiggle around, so we have a bigger room, BUT it has 3 diff colour paints on the wall ( where it was let out in diff sections) so bought a 5 ltre tin of paint and will paint the room on tuesday... it will be hard as the place is open , and I have clothes rails, and book cases in there, and I will have to do it on my own:eek::eek::eek:

I wanted the farrow and ball paint called mizzle
http://www.farrow-ball.com/pws/ProductDetails.ice?ProductID=100266&redirect=true

but there was no way I could justify the £60 plus for it

so we got a very close match to it, in crown paint, at less than half the price:T:T:T

Alfie with a manic month or two ahead ( re- pm) don't think it will be realistic to do farnborough in a few weeks...

going into work for a few hours later... really must start getting the place sorted, and sort out my crap:rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

morning all:j

talking of painting... the antique place is having a bit of a jiggle around, so we have a bigger room, BUT it has 3 diff colour paints on the wall ( where it was let out in diff sections) so bought a 5 ltre tin of paint and will paint the room on tuesday... it will be hard as the place is open , and I have clothes rails, and book cases in there, and I will have to do it on my own:eek::eek::eek:

I wanted the farrow and ball paint called mizzle
http://www.farrow-ball.com/pws/ProductDetails.ice?ProductID=100266&redirect=true

but there was no way I could justify the £60 plus for it

so we got a very close match to it, in crown paint, at less than half the price:T:T:T

Alfie with a manic month or two ahead ( re- pm) don't think it will be realistic to do farnborough in a few weeks...

going into work for a few hours later... really must start getting the place sorted, and sort out my crap:rotfl::rotfl:

Our down stairs loo is mizzle (and the back hall way which is small will be too). Tbh, I would be wary of using such expensive paint in a retail space anyway.........you might want to update or add a detail or just freshen up more regularly. Tbh, mizzle isn't my favorite of the just greens anyway now it's on the walls (but it's staying for years). The study is green blue, which I adore, and the sitting room is reresa's green whic is almost the same. The north and east light they face here suits them wonderfully IMO. I love looking down the house in to the sitting room from a distance it looks like a goldfish bowl....sort of radiating light.

I have picked curtain fabric from there (a wool stripe) but I cannot afford it yet! But it's going to be a calm and casual room. The study is having brighter more vibrant roman blinds...it's got cottage windows rather than Georgian ones of the other side of the house, or the mullioned three casement ones of the back....so I think long curtains would look wrong, and short ones make me a bit funny feeling, so roman blinds seem the best solution. Later, we'll have shutters between windows and blinds I hope!

Rummer

Why is it when you are young you just want to be a grown up so you can make your own decisions and do what ever you want and then you grow up and you realise you can't do what you want and that making decisions is REALLY hard :huh:

Anyway now that I have got that off my chest I am going to go and plant some seeds to cheer myself up

rhiwfield

Rummer wrote: »

Why is it when you are young you just want to be a grown up so you can make your own decisions and do what ever you want and then you grow up and you realise you can't do what you want and that making decisions is REALLY hard :huh:

Anyway now that I have got that off my chest I am going to go and plant some seeds to cheer myself up

We've struggled to cut away some of the ties that bind us, so that we are our own bosses, but other posts on here remind us all too painfully of how elderly relatives deteriorate mentally and can be like having ill, wilful and dependent children

Its why we dont want more livestock but applaud those of you who want the joy and the responsibilites. With lots of grandchildren we have enough on our plate!

Rummer

Another tough day here I am full of moans however I will not bore you with them.

I did however get some seeds planted :j and I feel all the better for getting them started

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

Why is it when you are young you just want to be a grown up so you can make your own decisions and do what ever you want and then you grow up and you realise you can't do what you want and that making decisions is REALLY hard :huh:

Anyway now that I have got that off my chest I am going to go and plant some seeds to cheer myself up

It's a good sign when decision making is hard, because it means you are weighing the pros and cons carefully. :A

My parents made some pretty radical decisions in haste when I was a kid, and while we all survived, I'd have been happier if some had just stayed as ideas! :rotfl:

Davesnave

My day was tough physically. DW came to help me on the hedge, so I made maximum use of her by clearing all the remaining nasties from the far side. It was great having someone to pull the trees & bushes across and over the fence. We now have 3 bonfires!

So, that's another section of the stream cleared, connected to to the part I did last autumn/winter, so the work is 2/3 complete. I can now walk that section of the stream bed and sort out anything that's growing where it shouldn't.:T I just have the part that leads to Mr Dog's boundary to do!:eek: (Next year is soon enough!:rotfl:)

Then the other load of logs arrived. Just got them loosely stacked by the time the light went......

alfie_1