Honest, ossifer, not even once. But I couldn’t resist the title.
Little by little, the Frydman decorating project moves on, and the next stage is to get some rooms replastered. This gives us the opportunity to move furniture from room to room in order to clear the rooms that need plastered…Thank goodness for a spare room at the moment, otherwise we would be struggling a bit to find space to put things into.
So far, it’s mostly the bookcases that are getting moved. I’m quite pleased to see that the study walls stay up without their usual counterweight of books. With the annual bookfair in Peebles next month, it’s also a good time to do our usual book cull, and decide what can be donated for the fair.
The biggest excitement will be getting the kitchen replastered, which should mean we can finally paint it white, and banish the last trace of terracotta paint. (Apologies if you are of a burnt umber persuasion. It’s nice and warm, sure, but in small dark spaces lit by a still pretty dark Scottish winter, the desire for more light is going to win out.) But it seemed like a good opportunity to tidy up the sitting room and the study at the same time, so we’re hoping to get all three done around the same time.
But the final aim is an even better one – get the plaster and paint done, then finally replace the carpet. If terracotta walls get me down, don’t get me started on the sitting room carpet. Hopefully we can now get something we’d like.
It was good enough getting Mum to make us curtains of our choice – carpet as well will be tremendous. (You’ll be pleased to hear we aren’t forcing Mum to make the carpets as well. Talk about nose to the grindstone.)
Is it all needed? Less than the leaky bathroom project. But learning from the enjoyment we have of a bathroom that we actually chose, I think it’s well worth it, particularly for the sitting room which we spend a lot of time in.
You never know. I may even learn to upload some photos, finally, to show off the finished product. A few more bookcases to move first, though.