Painted

The painters have finally finished. It look longer than expected (and costed more of course). We changed our minds about one or two things and there was quite a bit of patching up to do. The painters weren’t exactly quick but they did great work and were good to deal with.

Internally, the colours are the same upstairs and downstairs. Similarly, the colours outside are the same, but with a catch: we used to have exposed brickwork at the front half of the house, and now we have painted brickwork! It was a scary decision but has really freshened up the house and made it more beachy.

There is now almost no work happening until the kitchen is installed. We FINALLY got a delivery date from the kitchen people but it’s not until the end of the month – they blamed us for changing our minds about the design and we blame them for not managing the process better/faster. Anyway, now we have to orchestrate the complicated set of tasks and dependencies that will start on 25 April. This will involve at least 9 trades plus multiple deliveries happening in the right order on specific days…