Layers

I'm starting the enjoy the rhythm of our house. I like to get up in the morning (I'm usually first up) and sit with my cuppa on the couch watching the silvery light through this window.

And then, within a second, there is an explosion of light when the sun comes up over the mountains and the sun comes into this room.
It really is delightful the light up there.
Then I start working. This weekend I finally finished painting the bar room- I was shattered on Saturday night and fell asleep on the couch as we were watching our movie. I didn't get any good photos of the bar room- and I now have to recover the bar stools as they just don't look right anymore. But here's Lilly finding the highest spot in the room while I was painting.

And here are my 2 finished chairs. Can you spot the flaw?

yep, AFTER I had cut out the fabric for the second chair and mostly attached it, I realised that I had the little oval shapes around the wrong way. That's what comes with doing them separately. Fortunately it really doesn't bother me that much and they probably won't sit together like that again. And they look so much better...don't you agree?

The boys had to pull down the plaster on the front walls in the yellow room. I am so hoping that this room will be ready to paint next weekend!

Ella took my camera out on Saturday and took some lovely photos (not to be outdone by Oscar)

As I said, it's just lovely light. My favourite time to take photos is in the morning when the frost makes the ground all silvery:

Oh and this is our dead tree. Our dead tree which is right by the house and is in danger of falling onto the house- or even the neighbour's house. The dead tree that we've been trying to get down for the last 5 weeks. That was SUPPOSED to be down with specialist equipment costing us 3x as much as the original quote. But as you can see, it's still there.

And today I had a go at the dining room walls again. This is what it looked like when we moved in...red flowery fabric on the walls. This was the first thing to come down when we moved in.

But underneath was burlap/hessian covered plasterboard. I was really stumped by that and didn't know what to do next. But since I've ripped out so many walls in this house already, I thought I'd see what was underneath.

And this is what was there- Covered with glue thank goodness as Remi wanted to keep this up. Talk about the wrong finish for this style of house! So this had to come down too....

And under that- paint over the top of wallpaper, over the top of plaster. Very cracked plaster.

And this wall paper came complete with a 2 year old height scribble on the wall...

Since we've ripped back so many layers here, I think the solution will be to put plaster board over the top of this plaster and wallpaper, rather than tearing down another 2 walls. I have to put the skirting board and crown molding again anyway. And speaking of crown molding- I'll admit there were tears this weekend when it came to cutting the angles for the crown molding for the bathroom. I just can't picture it in my head- there are very few things I can't picture in my head, but working out an internal corner for an angled crown molding is just beyond me. I did it wrong once, read how to do it right, did it that way and it was STILL wrong. SIGH. It's perfect if I lay it flat, but not angled like it's supposed to be. So I'll stick to ripping stuff out and painting for a while...