OK I know I’ve been working hard on my DIY activities because I’ve got actual blisters on the palm of my hand from holding the paint roller, as well as ingrained paint marks streaked across my nails! This week alone I’ve managed to completely coat the bathroom ceiling and walls (including the tricky bits round the windows) in primer. Not bad going considering I’ve only got mornings free to paint. As of two o’clock this afternoon things moved up a notch as I finished covering the ceiling in a coat of white emulsion. I was hoping that unlike all the women I know, it would be fine with just one coat, mainly because I can’t seem to paint ceilings without getting serious splashback in my eyes and on my hair and face. Unfortunately however, the tiler has been round this afternoon, finishing the grouting on the tiles on the back wall of the bathroom and so now there’s a four inch deep grouting stain along the length of my lovely white ceiling!
My grouted ceiling!
The tiles don’t look at their best in this pic as they’re still coated in grout which can’t be cleaned off for 24 hours. Speaking of tiles, we had a major crisis last night when the first half of the wall was tiled because it didn’t take an interior designer to see that the floor tiles that we’d bought were not going to work with these wall tiles. They had seemed fine together in the shop but with the wall tiles up, the floor tiles looked more clashing than complimentary. So back the floor tiles went today. IB was not impressed having only moved all 25 packs up the stairs from the hallway at the weekend, he now had to take them back down the stairs and out to the car, then out of the car and back into the shop again. Well he’s always wanted a six pack!
Anyway, now we have to go tile shopping again which I hate so much. As this experience shows, we’re not the greatest at envisaging how well things will go together once they’re in situ! Although I guess this time it’ll be easier to pick the right floor tile because the bathroom has progressed so far and we can just bring a couple of samples home and try them out against the tiled wall.
The other thing we need to sort out is the bathroom mirror and unfortunately we fundamentally disagree on what we want for the room and I don’t think even a mood board will sort this one out. IB is keen on having something functional, something with built in lighting and a discreetly hidden shaver point, along the lines of this. I on the other having flicked through my mags for inspiration, want something more individual and full of character, something which doesn’t scream ‘mass produced bathroom mirror’, something more like this. I’m not sure this one’s worth the fight…… I might just give way and score some major brownie points which I’ll can cash in at some stage in the not too distant future…………
DIY Decorating Dame 