Friday 5th March 2010

Exactly whose stupid idea was it....

to paint the doors and woodwork white anyway?! I forgot how hard it is to get a nice coverage with craft paint on those plastic window and doors – especially doors. But I really like the mid blue and white colour scheme I have chosen, so am persevering. Fortunately I don’t want a pristine effect. Not too dilapidated, but not pristine either.

But it was far more rewarding to wallpaper the ground floor. The wallpaper ran a bit in the corner where some glue oozed out where I had to join two pieces, even though I (fortunately) took the precaution of spraying it with preserver first. I wasn't going to wallpaper the kitchen but couldn't find anything I liked for there. And I wanted to get the floor/ceiling in, so went ahead and did it and I’m pleased that I did.

Apart from that it's been a frustrating couple of days here! I spent a LOT of yesterday fiddling with free printable wallpapers from QC - the flooring ones are too small and none of them print out well. So I tried designing my own. The trouble is that the colours change as you make them smaller. So a couple of trees later I settled for what you see here for the bathroom. Except that they weren't tall enough to do the whole wall on the two taller walls. So smartie thinks - I know, I'll do a dado, or whatever you call it. So I spent ages cutting up balsa wood and making a dado, then cut the rear part too short so I'll have to put in a corner moulding - if I use it. Because after all that work I realised that the white bath doesn't really show up that well against the white dado! But I think the blue stripes all the way down are quite strong. Though I know the kit from England does have striped wallpaper supplied with the kit for the bedroom, and that is much bigger.

So my options are:
1. The walls with the white dado/wainscotting or whatever it is.
2. The walls with just the blue stripes

Again, the colours aren't quite the same in reality as they seem in the photos - they actually are a much better match. What will I choose? White woodwork dado or not? Decisions, decisions......

So now I have to decide about the bathroom and find something for the bedroom! Since there is a Mrs McGregor as well as a Captn McGregor I might even have to resort to a floral for that, though I'd prefer not to.