an update

It's been a week or so since I blogged. Been keeping busy, feeling pretty tired too.
We have really started going for it with re-decorating our bedroom, and we took full advantage of the sale at Guthrie Bowron on the weekend and bought the paint for our bedroom. It's a Dulux colour called Pukaki, what I would call a dark teal. Lovely, can't wait to see it on the walls, but we have a fair bit of work to do before then.

On Sunday we spent a lot of the day stripping wallpaper off the walls, about 5 layers I think, dating back to 1950 when the house was built. Layer apon layer apon layer. It's a pretty boring task, but it has to be done. There will be a lot of plastering to do when the paper is off too, but the walls themselves won't take that long to paint.

After the room is painted, I plan to take the cupboard doors off one of the cupboards in the room and turn it into a bookshelf. This will be a good place for special objects we want to keep away from both babies, as well as basket storage for personal bits and peices. It does mean we will lose a laundry cupboard, but I plan to buy an old cupboard and install it in the laundy for sheets and things to be stored in... Andy is keeping an eye out a weekly dunbar sloan auctions.

We've also been looking at colours for the babies room, currently our sunroom. It has a lot of windows and as you would expect is very sunny and bright. I thought a nice apple green, not to bright would be good to cool the room down, and I remember a room Dad had in his Nelson Cres house, that was a lovely apple green. Anyway, after trialing about 7 different greens we have decided to abort that plan, nothing looks right in there, it's all way too bright. It's lucky we have a while to think about it, as we plan to have baby in our room for the first 6 months anyway.

This week at work we are interviewing for my replcaement, so exciting!
I have a short week too, cos we are off to Womad on Friday! yay!