Ah, the White Cotton looks fine on the ceiling and the decorator guy's done a really nice job of filling in gaps between coving and ceiling and between skirting board and wall. Wheeeee!

Nice colours, Elsh!

Is that a pink shade I spot for the living room? :o

Thanks for showing your painting ideas in such detail, can't wait to see them in person some day.

-Schnur

Pale Sienna = PINK!

The little "cave" under the stairs is now filled with the energy-efficient dryer. There's only a little cat-sized gap left, so I'm not sure Binky would be all that comfortable there.

The painting of the three rooms is done. All that's left is to remount the curtains in the living room space and clean up the painting supplies all over my kitchen. I should be able to move the bed into the bedroom later today and stop sleeping on the living room floor!

Alas, we still have no working phone line in the building and no Internet either. At least it's improving, though. Instead of getting "You have dialed an incorrect number" when we call ourselves, now it just rings ... somewhere. BT in a fit of helpfulness notified our Internet provider that the phone line was moving so our Internet provider closed our account for us! No Internet at the old place either. I'm online using my cell phone and laptop, downloading 15,500 messages by dial-up at £1.00/day for "unlimited" Internet. I'm waiting to be cut off for unreasonable use. :-P

After a major false start where we didn't have a working thermostat at all, not even the original one, the guys managed to get the Heatmiser PRT installed and it's now working. One problem down, hundreds to go! (PS: Don't forget to admire the lovely EinBlue backlight on it and it's remote controllable too!)

A new double futon, custom-made with a duck egg blue cover, has arrived to replace the original 8-inch thick futon mattress for the living room futon couch. It's now sitting on top of the old one on the living room floor as none of the futon frames have been assembled yet. The only thing things assembled have been bookshelves (5 new ones!), a side table for the kitchen to hold a transformer and all the appliances, and a bed /couch/storage combo in the spare bedroom. Yes, Kari was sleeping on a bed, in a bedroom, with a door, while Basil and I slept on the living room floor!

The Hemnes Daybed Frame that's a couch, bed, and storage space. Kari slept on this in the spare room.

Billy corner bookcase similar to what we installed, except there's only one shelf on the left side of the corner and 2 full-size shelves on the right side of the corner.

Norden occassional table in our kitchen, which runs along the exterior wall and holds the transformer to power my North American rice cooker and crockpot and acts as storage for cookbooks and other kitchen appliances.

Ooh BBQ! and fence painting good call