The painting began this week as progress moves at an agonisingly slow pace! We are ready to move in now and get on with our lives!
C'mon Mr Painter, plumber and
sparkie! We leave next week for a visit to SA so will try and get some shots next Saturday before we leave and then will be a few weeks before we will post any updates again. Maybe it is a good thing - the tiling will definitely be done by then and the bathrooms in. Anyway, here are some shots. Some of the rooms that you see here are going to be painted another colour before we move in. It was just too complicated and confusing to try and get the painter to do it for us so I told him I would do it myself. Let's leave it at that. Deep breath. Till next week. Cheers!
From the front door down the passage. The house is starting to look almost
liveable with some paint on the walls. The front door will be the same colour as the garage door - monument so still has to be painted obviously.
The garage. At the bottom where you see the unpainted raw cement, I am going to extend the grey epoxy floor
coating up to the height of the white skirting as it is more resistant to scuff marks than the normal house paint.
Carmen's study - this paint will change completely to Apple Green Suede - a textured light green paint with white plantation shutters and have a glass and steel desk, polished white low filing cabinet below a painting behind her and cream carpets for a modern, light, uncluttered feel. She has a 27 "Mac, with the white and aluminium
wireless keyboard and mouse so the aluminium backing of the screen will fit nicely.There will be no wires visible. Period.
Looking down the passage to the front door. The passage is long and dark, though if you click on the
picture to blow it up, you will see it is not that narrow. Once building is done, we are putting in 3 skylights to lighten it up and break up the 'tunnel' effect. I have already seen a long narrow hall table that will also break the space.
Looking towards the dinning room - again that wall will be painted a textured buckskin sued colour to offset the dark plantation shutters in the 3 windows. If you look
through them, you should see the deep blue of the ponds out back. It is
also the only place in the house that doesn't have
downlighters - 3 hanging lights above the table.
Towards the lounge. Am not 100 percent decided on colour here - difficulty is that we have dark leather
furniture and coffee table. Am thinking about putting in white shutters against darker feature wall. We''ll see.
From the front door down the passage. The house is starting to look almost liveable with some paint on the walls. The front door will be the same colour as the garage door - monument so still has to be painted obviously.
The garage. At the bottom where you see the unpainted raw cement, I am going to extend the grey epoxy floor coating up to the height of the white skirting as it is more resistant to scuff marks than the normal house paint.
Carmen's study - this paint will change completely to Apple Green Suede - a textured light green paint with white plantation shutters and have a glass and steel desk, polished white low filing cabinet below a painting behind her and cream carpets for a modern, light, uncluttered feel. She has a 27 "Mac, with the white and aluminium wireless keyboard and mouse so the aluminium backing of the screen will fit nicely.There will be no wires visible. Period.
Looking down the passage to the front door. The passage is long and dark, though if you click on the picture to blow it up, you will see it is not that narrow. Once building is done, we are putting in 3 skylights to lighten it up and break up the 'tunnel' effect. I have already seen a long narrow hall table that will also break the space.
Looking towards the dinning room - again that wall will be painted a textured buckskin sued colour to offset the dark plantation shutters in the 3 windows. If you look through them, you should see the deep blue of the ponds out back. It is also the only place in the house that doesn't have downlighters - 3 hanging lights above the table.
Towards the lounge. Am not 100 percent decided on colour here - difficulty is that we have dark leather furniture and coffee table. Am thinking about putting in white shutters against darker feature wall. We''ll see.
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