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My Year in Photos – January 17th – “Paint me a picture”

Henry Elliss — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:44:07 +0000

My Year in Photos – January 17th, originally uploaded by henweb.

Well, as my wife just pointed out to me, I’m afraid I’ve failed a bit on my original promise – namely that my ‘Year in Photos’ project wouldn’t just be pictures of my son. My excuse here is that my weekends are understandably filled with spending time with my family. So if you don’t like it, I’m sorry, ha ha. This shot is of Robert doing painting with mummy this morning, which he enjoyed a lot. We didn’t really do much else today, so this was a photographic peak of sorts : )

Filling in the gaps

Henry Elliss — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:07:00 +0000

One of the few areas which we hadn’t already painted is the area outside the bathroom – for the obvious reason that we were waiting until the bathroom was finished so we knew where to paint! Now that it IS finished, we’re painting the bit outside the door to match the rest of the hall (i.e. two shades of green) and the inside a nice light blue, in waterproof paint of course!

Even more room, even less time.

Henry Elliss — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:55:00 +0000

On a bright Sunday morning we got back to work, with the first job of the day being to apply damp-proof paint to the external walls. We decided not to go all the way up, as we were hoping to dry it in the same day so we could paint on top of it. Having done that, and sanded off all the filler, we set to work with the actual paint. First it was the cieling (white, to replace the splotchy yellow and brown it was before) and then the walls, in "Gentle Lavender" (I think). The colour is a strange one – in some light it looks blue, in some purple and others pink. Very odd, but nice anyway – heck, just having the room anything but yellow is good!

Having applied two layers of the stuff, we left it all to dry for the rest of the day. The damp proof stuff probably could have done with a little more time to dry before we painted over it, hence the patchy bits you’ll see in the photo below, but it looked fine after some touch-ups. Henry made a few gaffes by getting the wall paint on the white cieling, but it’s nothing a bit of cornicing won’t cover!

The hallway painting is finished.

Henry Elliss — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:34:00 +0000

This entry is a culmination of days, as the painting of the hall is a) by no means that exciting, and b) no way exciting enough to warrant more than a page’s worth of photos.

In case you were wondering, we chose the colour scheme after seeing it done in a paint brochure, and we think it turned out pretty nicely. It was trickly figuring out where to take the line on all the stair inclines, but I reckon we got it right.

We followed the finishing touches (on Monday) by trying out our new barbecue – it wasn’t really barbecue weather, and we didn’t have anything to sit on, but we improvised quite well I think!!

Mirror Mirror, on the wall…

Henry Elliss — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:29:00 +0000

Once again finding ourselves at a (rare) loose end this weekend, we decided to crack on with all the little jobs that have been gagging to get finished. These included, in no particular order:

Sanding down and painting the lounge radiator white (as opposed to wee-yellow, which it was)
Applying the Caulk to the skirting boards to fill in all the gaps we’d left in them!
Putting up the very large mirror in the lounge, and a smaller (£10 Ikea bargain) mirror in our bedroom
Painting all the wood-work in the lounge – that’s the lounge pretty much finished now!
Filling and sanding all the walls in the hall in preparation for painting
Choosing a colour scheme for the hallway – we eventually settled on Apple white and Willow Green…
Attaching chicken wire to the front fence, to (hopefully) stop all the rubbish from the street from blowing in to our front ‘Garden’.

The mirror’s were particularly tough, as they’re so effing heavy that Henry had to buy a snazzy new hammer drill to get the screws in to the walls far enough to hold them up. The other excitement of the weekend was going to see Claire and Dave, who have a new puppy called Otis. All together now – Ahhhhhhhhhh…!