so here comes this week's round up. sitting down writing and loading up pictures means my home renovation work for the week(end) has come to a reasonable end. {but we're going on, since we're having a few days off work}. not all work it was either, i visited thrift shops to keep the enthusiasms burning {and the near-future-playing alive},
and i played about in the garden, high time it was. behind our sunny {well, if} kitchen windows, i've planted seeds that are shyly pushing up earth, for want to live, let's hope. any ideas on ecological slug expelling, since we will soon come to that?
this is a 360° of the upstairs front room. as you see, there's a middle-of-the-room obstacle of wardrobe & studio materials boxed up, that is going to be taking front row viewing along with all of you. son will move these about, as i literally progress through the room.
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i've been finishing the strip of wall behind the radiator {so it can finally go back up}, i'm sanding down all of the roughly plastered walls. actually? my ceiling needs attention. i may have detected some peeling? ☻
i've been finishing the strip of wall behind the radiator {so it can finally go back up}, i'm sanding down all of the roughly plastered walls. actually? my ceiling needs attention. i may have detected some peeling? ☻
doing away with that ghastly and uninspiring orange at last {i am definitely not an orange-as-an-interiors-colour lover}, as i will be painting the windowed wall white. proof to that, later. high up the ladder i feel queen of this room at least, what an illusion. having attended the joint-sealing windows-outside wall {1st floor up after all} left me kind of wobbly in my knees, actually.
now it's straight onto bathing and reading up where i left off last, chez d.h. lawrence. did you ever read anything by him besides lady chatterley? there's a sign-of-the-time feel to the short stories i'm reading, all whilest being of a distractive order. i do like the introspectives, the subliminal tension and the unruly parts women play in his books. i also highly enjoy his vocabulary.
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thank you all for being such enthusiasts for next weekend's drawing challenge.
beauty on our minds... i'm looking forward to your musings,
as i'm sure we all do.
A long line of descendants would be able to live in that house,
ReplyDeletedear Nadeschda,
that your are renovating so very sorgfältig... carefully! and you, my Dear, of course :)
and DHLawrence... the name alone makes me blush... thinking of the Lady... but I had read even some of his stories! Was amazed and sweet on his understanding for women... and life, the big picture!
BEAUTY in my mind...
Love
xo Ariane.
OMGoodness what a big job! looks like it is going well - hopefully you will share more pictures as it proceeds.
ReplyDeletecan't wait to see the finished rooms and how you fill them. such work! you are amazing!
ReplyDeletedh lawrence, no, haven't read the short ones but have been reading some of his poems. did a paper cut about pomegranate flowers being flashes of flame in a green night.
he is very sensuous, unlike his fellow englishmen. yes?
p.s. beer for slugs - tho the men in your life might find it a terrible waste. and then there's always salting them......that's what works for me.
ReplyDeleteothers will tell you about eggshells and diotomaceous earth. did not work for me.
Yup the slugs like the beer here in Vancouver [Canada] too! They drown in it. If you put the bowl [shallow] of beer in the garden or wherever they are outside...cover it over with something to make a sort of roof to keep other things out and to keep the rain out, etc. You want to have the roof raised up enough for the slugs to crawl in, so balance it on rocks or something to raise it. Tiles work well as roofs. Then if you have raccoons in the area, you can pour the slug soup with the beer base in an area where the raccoons can dine. It is a fairly gummy disgusting slop I would say. N, x
ReplyDeleteUnruly women are more interesting. What happened to that spoon?
ReplyDeleteYour windows let in so much light now! They look wonderful with the trim and plaster done. You, dear Nadine are doing a fabulous job!!!!
ReplyDeleteBeer works well as Norma suggests. I have also gone out with a flashlight at night and picked the pesky slimers right off the plants while they were munching on them. I have no hesitation about squishing them.... well, except for their sticky goo. Do you have racoons? We have a family of them who stole all the goldfish out of our pond! xo Carole
For a time I was all for "Mexican-orange-fiesta-style" interior decor, until very recently. Now I long for white again. However, I do think that white goes better in large, sunny rooms, than in small, cramped ones (like we have!).
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your renovation! What hard work, but I am sure it will look beautiful in the end!
ReplyDeleteSo much sun in your renovations post, I feel the light so clearly and its fun to see your 360 view,
ReplyDeletethank you for bringing us in. I always feel a certain abstract quality to your life in renovations, as though it is a story we are reading, and yet this time it feels like it is coming more to life.
Do you know what I mean n?♡
Love to you and a stunning week (read your theme! like the word!)
xo
home is where the heart is and I can feel a big heart in your words and pictures!
ReplyDeletex Stefanie
What a work!!! Beauty is in my mind... and in your world ;))
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