meet roy

He's doing lots of work upstairs. This photo is taken in what will be our attic room. Unfortunately Roy then fell down a ladder and had to go and get a giant arm gash stitched up in hospital, but he's a trooper and is back at work this morning.

My other thought for today is that ceiling insulation looks like clouds.

what are they looking at?

Could it be the NEW FLOORS that were put down yesterday?

No, it's Michael the gyprocker. Yes, you heard me, the gyprocker is actually in the house right now discussing the work he'll be doing for us next week.

That's all.

yellow

I was recently profiled in our work newsletter and one of the questions was 'what colour do you choose to see if given the choice?' My answer was 'yellow because it's the colour of sunshine, lemon butter, duckings and Big Bird.' (Sadly all of my answers were about as ridiculous as this one.)

I'm ignoring the fact that our bedroom-to-be is still without floors, walls or ceilings (see previous post and note that since I wrote it there have been more delays. The floor should go down tomorrow and Saturday but frankly I'll believe it when I see it.) and thinking about what colour to paint it. If yellow makes me immediately think of sunshine, lemon butter, ducklings and Big Bird then frankly it would be lovely to wake up to.

The trick will be finding the right yellow. It can't be too cold and lemony because that would be insipid. And not too green. And not too bright either. I'd like a pale golden buttery yellow.

I've found a few pictures around the blogs for my inspiration board.

I love the bright buttery-ness of the yellow in this living space. Would a half strength version of this colour look good?
This lounge room is a beautiful yellow, a bit paler and more sophisticated.


And finally, doesn't yellow look good with white skirting boards?

(Images via Apartment Therapy and Desire To Inspire)

pause

Dear blog,

I haven't forgotten you, we've just had the pause button on.

Delays are the most annoying thing about renovations. For the first few days you feel relieved to come home and find the house as you left it, no new piles of dust or mess to clean up. After a few weeks you grow to miss the chaos.

We should have new floors upstairs by now but due to some kind of timber kiln crisis the estimated date for their laying has been stretched out. Maybe it will happen this week?

Love, Emma & Rahul xx

i haven't had a bath in 5 years

I realise that header sounds quite bad. Obviously I shower, but it's been a long time since I've lived in a house where I can actually bathe. And I love baths.

We have almost finished making all the bedroom related choices so now it's time to move on to the bathroom. My dream would be to have a freestanding egg bath like the Aveo freestanding bath above. Or at the very least one of the old fashioned ones with clawed feet (which apparently now cost about $10k or something ridiculous).

Sadly nobody gets to have those baths in real life.

In the spirit of compromise, I quite like the Villeroy and Boch 'Oberon' bath pictured below though. Shame we won't have quite the same outlook at our place...

$1044

On Monday we made money by renovating. I am amazed. When we decided to replace our floorboards upstairs we assumed we'd be up for the cost of a skip plus several days of Rahul's physical hell because ripping up floors and balancing on beams is not fun. Then Theo heard of wood recycler who not only removes and takes away wooden floorboards, he pays you for them! Our wood turned out to be Cowrie, which commands $6 per metre.

Of course when you consider the cost of the new floor the money made does not even begin to offset it, but shhhhhhh.