19th January

Shopping Day... How patient is Steve? We went around tile outlets, door outlets and paver outlets - all in two hours. I only changed my mind ...several times...and he patiently stood by and made handy calculations. How lucky is Claire!!   Anyway, many details are now solved and a couple of new probelms (decisions) created. All good.

This morning, befoer "the spree", a colour consultant came and we talked tones, colours, light, depth for a couple of hours and came up with a colour scheme. Loyal  followers will know that I have been pondering this problem for several months now. She was terrific. It helps when you know the "rules" and having guidance to formulate what is essentially an idea, (a vision???) I know that I like Porter's Paints and it  became evident in my conversation with her, why this is so. Their colours are made from "reduced" pigments; they aren't bright colours but they have richness and depth. It's just like a good gravy or sauce; always good when based in a good reduction.

Gyprocked ceiling

Still Life: leftover splodge

More gyprocking happened today and a big clean up in readiness for the arrival of the big glass doors tomorrow. Steve checked out the doors at the factory today and said they are "humungous". He then had to tell them to dismantle the doors as they can't come into the place unless they are in bits. They are heavy and many hands will be required to lift them. Richo and Isaac did lots of shovelling and cleaning up to make way for them.

Lester and I made a few big decisions tonight: we won't do stacker doors upstairs now, to separate the bedroom. Got another idea. We are happy not to move in until the end of March when EVERYTHING  is finished and we come back from our holiday.  We will invest in a Dog Loo for Sally. And, biggest decision of all; we won't put the  wine storage on the wall. We need the space around the stairs. OMG! Where do we put the wine then??? Ten minutes of stunned silence and then the obvious revealed itself. Greg has already built storage under the stairs which is accessed through the downstairs toilet. I will have to ask him tomorrow if he can make the little door into a bigger one. This is one of those things which annoys builders and which Bernard tells me we shouldn't do: change your mind, (costs money - doing things twice). However, we have changed our minds now that we can see the reality...and Greg is always most obliging, especially after a holiday!