There is great progress, I am sure of it, but as the house is still under 4 inches of dust with still more to be created, a finished house is still a long way off. Neil has been working elsewhere, which has been frustrating him beyond belief, but unfortunately the bills still have to be paid and having just had the water meter read, our lounging around in the pool this summer may come back to haunt us.
Tina did a fantastic job of plastering, tiling and pargetting. I will include a before and after pic of the pargetting to the blog - although as I still have to point the central part of the chimney it is still a work in progress.
Today we are (hopefully) plastering the last wall in the kitchen and getting some tiles put up. I have just complicated matters further by dragging out some Fired Earth tile samples, which I would like incorporated in the splashback for the sink. I could tell by the slightly long silence that this would not be an easy task but I’m sure they will be worth the effort. I have a lot of these samples as I couldn’t actually afford just to buy any amount of one pattern in Fired Earth, as the shop is hugely expensive and you felt it necessary to talk in Queens English just to walk through the door in our then local store in Cobham, Surrey. They looked quite bemused when I had ordered some samples and swung into the carpark in my rather large paramedic ambulance to pick them up.
In a bid to meet government targets we were always being sent to random ‘cover points’ so that theoretically you are at a central point for anyone dialling 999, but sitting around at the side of the road waiting for the proverbial accident to happen was much more interesting if there were some nice shops to dive into.
So here are the pictures of the pargetting. If anyone particularly likes it and lives here or any interesting part of the globe, Tina is willing to come and do an original design in your place for the cost of flights, food and wine (which wasnt too expensive as we could drink her under the table in an hour!!)
Before!
Its beautiful !!!!
Tina’s a class act too !!!