So the big news is that at the end of October our little household of two humans, one cat and three chooks becomes three humans! Yep we've built two garden offices so that means a freed up bedroom to put a new little chap in! (or you know we could of Harry Pottered him and let him live under the stairs. Admittedly I don't have a lot of experience with kids but Im pretty sure outside popular literature that sort of thing is slightly frowned upon these days?!?).
The rush is now on to try to finish the house off (lets face it, it will never be finished because no house ever is...we just need to reduce to amount of sharp pointy hazards to an expectable level).
This lead to us having a super grown up conversations about carpets...yes I can feel middle age approaching me like a speeding freight train. The conversation ran along these lines:
Me - If we're having a baby we should probably thing about getting some carpet down stairs?
Rich - Good idea but we are not getting fancy expensive rush carpeting as the future spawn with destroy it with vomit and play dough!
Me - Fine! We if I have to have boring sensible carpet I want it in a nice colour...not fucking beige!
Carpet fitting two days ago - Wow ... thats an odd colour combination you've gone for? This is what you ordered isn't it??? (looking very worried he was going to have to go back to the store)
Me smug as shit - YEP, thats what I ordered! Just fit it, you don't have to live in it!
And low the very nice fitters put in my slate grey and minced frog green carpets!
This lead to us having a super grown up conversations about carpets...yes I can feel middle age approaching me like a speeding freight train. The conversation ran along these lines:
Me - If we're having a baby we should probably thing about getting some carpet down stairs?
Rich - Good idea but we are not getting fancy expensive rush carpeting as the future spawn with destroy it with vomit and play dough!
Me - Fine! We if I have to have boring sensible carpet I want it in a nice colour...not fucking beige!
Carpet fitting two days ago - Wow ... thats an odd colour combination you've gone for? This is what you ordered isn't it??? (looking very worried he was going to have to go back to the store)
Me smug as shit - YEP, thats what I ordered! Just fit it, you don't have to live in it!
And low the very nice fitters put in my slate grey and minced frog green carpets!
The dark grey in the small hallway was so that muddy shoe marks don't show up as easily, also I thing it looks great with the newly painted bright red front door, Rich did this as a surprise while I was a work one day. I love it!
Im super happy with how this came out, it looked a bit rubbish in the store plus the sales guys kept trying to talk me into 'Biscuit' colour carpet which is just bloody beige by another name! Also using the sales tactic of 'Oh most people go for this sort of colour' is guaranteed to turn me off it straight away. I think it really goes with all the Ercol and Gplan mid century furniture we have. I will probably get a rug for in front of the stove incase of flaming logs rolling out (thats has happened before!), we've also had to think about extra shelving so all our breakable stuff and expensive books can move up by a few feet so Rich has been crafting more shelving.
The next project is to get the bedrooms sorted, The largest of which has been our joint office/studio for about 7 years. This will become our room and the smaller back bedroom with be the kids room once we've sorted the insulation...and a better radiator...of any a new floor...and its going to need re-plastering so not a quick project. We're are planning to tackle that is over summer hopefully with some help from family and friends as Im getting slower by the day at the moment!
More updates soon x
More updates soon x
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