- Covering the gas meter.
For five years we've been looking at this delightful sight in the corner of our living room. Even with the TV stand in front of it it's still obviously there and taunting us. We need easy access to it for meter readings, and didn't want to get complicated building a cupboard around it, so I designed a three sided cover that could just be placed over the top and leant against the walls, and Kevin built it. So from the awfulness above we have this invisibleness (almost) instead:
You can't see it at all behind the TV stand now, woohoo! Speaking of TV stands, I have plans... but they're for another day.
- Curtain making.
When our living room was painted brown my mum made these wonderful coordinating curtains for us, but now that the room is painted blue the curtains were too dark. So they're being moved to the spare room (which will be cream/white so they'll go perfectly) and I've been making new pale cream curtains for the living room. They're almost done, just one hem to go, so now we see this:
It feels much brighter in here now, and although you can't see it on camera, they do have a subtle texture that catches the sunlight (when we get some!!).
- Toilet Storage
Our toilet is in a separate room to our bathroom. I would much prefer it to be just one big room, but that involves knocking walls down, which would just be too much expense and hassle for little or no added value, so we have to make do. I've painted the toilet room and we're about to start on the bathroom, but in the meantime I asked Kevin to make a little shelf to go over the door in the toilet to store our toilet paper out of sight. We got a free piece of wood from Homebase which Kevin cut to size, I painted white and Kevin hung and filled with rolls and rolls of toilet paper. Ta dah!
I love it so much already. You don't notice it when you're in there at all, but it means never having to shout for each other when we've forgotten to put an extra roll in the toilet room. It's the little things!
- Plants
Our plants are still alive and blooming! We've killed our fair share of aphids, and only one plant this year. Look how pretty:
I'm so proud of not killing these plants! Maybe we'll try some veg again next year...
- Kitchen Shelves
We have needed some extra kitchen storage for sooo long. Seriously, half of the kitchen equipment was in the utility room and half on the kitchen floor. So we took a little trip to Ikea, originally to look at these Grundtal shelves, but while we were there we found these beauties instead. So we've gone from bare wall to full shelves, huzzah!
- In progress:
I'm just about to start painting our front hall to match the living room. It has a dado rail and leads into the white utility room, the white kitchen, and the blue/cream living room, so I thought painting it in the living room colour scheme was a safe bet. It's currently white on top of the dado, and a bright apple green underneath. Here's a before shot, and there'll be some after pics up soon, I promise!
