The little bedroom

In a few minutes, I will close my eyes on what has been an exhausting weekend. For some reason I can't quite remember, I decided Saturday would be an ideal time to install one of my beautiful doors. I now know that door installation should never be taken lightly. It's almost worth it when I see it hanging there, looking so nice, but L. and I have both decided the other two doors will have to wait a long time for their installation.

Door from the bedroom:

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Door from the hallway:

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As well as wrestling the door into place, we also finished painting the little room (white, for now) and spent this evening moving things out of the office and into the little room in an orderly fashion.
The paint, still drying:

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And the clutter moves back in:

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(It's still a work in progress, but we're quite happy to have another proper room done in the house)

On flooring

Along with the many, many things that came with the house (more curtains than we have windows, loads of ugly cement garden figures, stash of 60s porn), we also had three whole boxes of unused laminate flooring - with underlay, no less. We've been plotting for a while to install it in the little bedroom over the very badly abused floorboards, and this week we finally got around to it.

Little bedroom before:

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Underboards to even the surface:

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Spongey underlay:

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And finally, the new floor in all its glory!

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We were pleasantly surprised with how easy it was (though definitely a two-person job) and swearing was kept to a minimum. The only downside has been that the stuff that used to be piled in the little room is now crowded into our office.

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Odds, ends, and doors

We've been doing little things around the house of late and happily settling into the office.

The hall's woodwork has had its second coat of white and touch-ups have been made:

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We finally found some appropriately-sized frames at the Recycling Centre, so we have started cleaning them up:

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Lukas is no doubt getting tired of hearing how excited I am about the amazing doors I found on eBay for a shockingly good price.

Doors as they are (L. think's they're fine as they are....and they're not bad....)

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But look at these beauties:

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And finally, Alien Table!

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The office

I am typing this from our freshly painted office and it is glorious! Lukas and I spent ages trying to find a colour we would both like for it. In the end, we ended up with a blue that I love and (as a default), Lukas's beloved sash red.

The process began last weekend, with the careful scraping away of all of that blasted peeling paint and filling as many cracks and holes as we could whilst still remaining sane.

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Stage 2 involved painting the whole thing white, and convincing the ceiling to stay white with a few extra coats.

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And finally, colour, glorious colour.

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Lukas's side:

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(My arms are shaking at the thought of bringing his desk up the stairs)
My side:

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L.'s new chair

My jsme hledali židli pro Lukáše, od tĕ doby co jsme koupili dům. Ja jsem našla židli a židli a židli, ale Lukas řekl, ‘no, to je dobrá....ale....ale moje židle v Praze je lepsí.’ Tak, hledali jsme znova. Konečně, viděli jsme perfectní židli, a v Pondělí, pokoj uvítal novou-starou židli.

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The hallway

A week without internet has meant: a) no blog posts and b) much more time and energy for painting.

The hallway is now mostly L.'s much beloved Sash Red, with only minor touch-ups necessary.

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The ceiling, after no less than five coats of paint, has finally decided to stay white.

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The wood panelling will eventually be a slightly green/cream (something like this). We found the perfect colour to match the Sash Red, but, unfortunately, B&Q were out of it. So, we improvised. And bought a whole litre of something similar. Only, a bit too green. And florescent.

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(Hard to tell in the photos, but it does glow in natural light).
Not exactly what we wanted for the hallway, but I have great hopes for it in the lean-to.

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And finally, in exasperation, I turned the twice-wallpapered, thrice-painted wall over to L., who has made incredible progress.
My sad efforts:

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L.'s hard work:

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Happy new year! Now, get to work!

After a lovely Christmas and new year, we are back in the lovely wee house. We've started on the hallway, though, sadly, there are still two layers of wallpaper (the top of which has been painted--twice!) in some spots. And the going, as you can see, is slow and very sad:

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In other news, we picked up L.'s desk tonight, in the pouring rain. Would you believe this massive beauty fit in our little car? We were in shock. Very pleased shock, mind.

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It quite dwarfs my beloved desk (ebay find, ages ago). Also, please note the alcohol on L.'s desk versus important-looking papers on mine. I'm just saying....

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