The corridor ceiling. Buttercup yellow!
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Bedroom 1. What a colour scheme. Check the newspaper on the floor. Despite our diligent efforts, we still spilled and splashed paint on the floor. Lots of it!
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The bathroom window. Every set of upper windows in every room were blocked in and painted:
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This is the lounge room, looking towards the front (sliding) door:
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This is the lounge room, looking towards what was the kitchen AND laundry:
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This was the floor in the kitchen:
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Looking up at all the dangly bits in the kitchen. Walls still had to be built:
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This is the bathroom, just after we put villaboard on the walls, which were covered with horrible wooden planks that were damp and mouldy:
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Here is a pic of one of the windows with commercial paint stripper applied. I wrote about this in an earlier blog. Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble....
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Anyone for sandwich spread?
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1 comment:
Lots of work dear. If I were near by I'd take a vacation and come help you. This Sat. we are going out to my oldest 30min way in a little town. Help him organize his boxes to get unpacked. He's a real junk packrat. But he didn't buy a nice older home. This is one, we want to set your dd up with. LOL
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