Which is most comfortable?
Which looks bulky in a room?
Which is easiest to sit on?
...and on went the dialogue between me and my mind all this time!
Have finally sorted it out and think it will look great the way I have in mind now.
Eric is busy sanding back the beds to bare wood and we went with one coat of new stain with a clear coat of satin varnish over the top.
Hoping they will all come out OK when they dry as they do look amazing just now...but waiting for the final finish before we can breathe a sigh of relief and know it is completed OK.
Now we have an idea how to do the sanding, we are going back to the first wardrobe he did and will strip it right back now as Eric has really sorted out how to do it properly.
Very happy with the idea of keeping some things dark and am now sorting through furniture to see which pieces get painted white, salmon, aqua or green!
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| My early morning jogging trophies from along the roadsides... |
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| Dog stays put when kids play with her. Amazing dog really. She also lays low on the ground on her belly when around kids and has never jumped up on them yet. I'm positive she must have been a well loved family pet with a stack of kids. |
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| More bricks and timber for the 3 door shed which should be completed by the time I go to Serbia for 2 weeks for completion of my crowns around the 18th May. |
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| Well, the steel rods are in and the last bit of the footings pour is underway. |
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| The full length of the 3 door shed gets footings for a new back wall... |
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| The iris and little purple herb flowers are from my garden...The rest are poppies, wild white flowers, red and pink beautifully smelling roses from my jogging track. |
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| We made some nibblies for coffee time. Good recipe. Sesame seeds, linseed, almond, sunflower, walnut, carob powder, poppy seeds, red currants, coconut, oats, olive oil, 2 eggs and some fresh cows milk. Mix well and roll into balls, sprinkle with extra sesame seeds and press down with a fork and bake in a mod-high oven for 30-40 mins or until turning brown. All the seeds except the sesame were ground up in my blender which has a nut/seed crusher gadget on it. |
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| Check out the dust from the sander! It was everywhere while Eric did this. It took 3 days to get the 2 beds sanded right back to bare wood as the old laquer was almost 1/8 of an inch thick. He's doing a great job on the furniture. Maria has been waiting for me to get the glue and some beading strips to put on the red box so she can get started on her flower power painting jobs on Monday. |
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| Stripping down from the heat of the day, even under the verandah. Another 2 weeks of this messy sanding and it all should be completed and then it's on with the next lot of jobs. Will be so nice to have nice clean and tidy furniture at last. |
We slowed down a bit as it was going too fast in all directions for me to supervise the finish details.
One thing I missed in the 3 door shed footings was to extend one end through to the end of the future new building so the footing was in one pour...not joined as it will now be.
I'll get the guys to stagger the bricks at that end wall and that hopefully should be ok for the rest of the wall...maybe get them to pour the complete footing and do the wall all in one?
Maybe they have to build another wall, a double wall there, who knows?
It's a matter of do...learn...oops...re-do sometimes!.
The thing is, you really have to think very far ahead, as they don't do that.
But, being a builder from a highly regulated country compared to being out in the back blocks here, it really is different.
My responsibility though is to ensure it is better than how they do it here, so I stopped work on the shed for a week to catch up and check things out.
We start work again on Tuesday, (tomorrow), so it should all be completed before I leave for Serbia around the weekend...ish.
Bye...
See you next week
M
xxx
