Busy

Busy-busy last week and an unexpected but very welcome guest most of this week so I'm having a lazy weekend to myself. I did a proper clean this morning - crazy dust bunny activity - and have been enjoying mooching and drinking tea in my lovely flat this evening.

In November, I:

- "restored" my sitting room floor:

- hung new curtains (the long, thick dining room curtains of my childhood but, as it happens, pretty much perfect for the room and nothing I would ever have had the guts to choose myself):

- reorganized my furniture with the aid of two conveniently-sized cardboard boxes (not the final layout! This photo was taken in the middle of all the cardboard swooshing):

- bought two bedside cabinets, not a pair, one of which is now doing sterling service hiding all my computer and telephone wires (and the other of which is now clean and will, one day, do sterling service in a renovated non-submarine bathroom):

- wrinkled my nose every time I went into the loo because of the disturbing smoke/mould smell which, I assume, is coming from the ceiling:

- sussed out, I think, the way I'm going to organize the kitchen (but can't work out how to transform the drawing into a jpeg file),

- and made another ginormous pot of soup. :)

A whole week to think

I have the luxury of a whole week off work. An enormously swollen cheek and cute little black eye, accompanied by occasional nose bleeds (all four wisdom teeth out yesterday morning) is a small price to pay.

I'm taking advantage of my housebound status to finish waxing the Korean windows which are all set to become a coffee table as soon as I find a good leg solution and to do some thinking about colours. I'm going to have to make colour decisions about the bathroom pretty soon.

At the moment, the floor is dark grey marble-effect tiles and everything else is turquoise. We're talking floor-to-ceiling, surround-sound, ovalish tiles in deep-sea turquoise, set off by a turquoise door. It's an indoor bathroom too, so there isn't even a window to remind you that you're not twenty-thousand leagues under the sea.

Clearly, I'm going to be taking a break from that particular shade of blue. White tiles around the bath are in. For the moment. Floor will be... um? Untiled bits of wall will be... er? I'm on a bit of a beige vibe at the moment but by tomorrow I'll probably be back to green.

Make my mind up time is on its way, however. Another contractor came round today to give me a quote on the plumbing and electrical work that needs done and the third company is coming tomorrow morning. Once I've got the quotes in from them and the charming Mr Kitten - who came a couple of weeks ago but has still to send his doubtless terrifying quote - it'll be time to go cap-in-hand to the bank and get started as soon as possible. Even taking short showers I'm having to empty about half a litre of water from the leak under the plughole, and that clearly isn't the only leak on the go as the raggedy concrete under the bath is still wet and getting wetter. Oh, and mushroom number three popped up today - just time to say hello to the contractor before he got his marching orders and disappeared binwards.