A new house, well sort of

Right so our house has been under a period of transition this is a PC way of saying we have had the decorators in. Anyway now it is almost finished and we are waiting on a delivery of a wardrobe and some roman blinds and then we are all done. No more renovations on the house. I am bored with it now.

The blinds did cause a bit of controversy for the following reasons. I ordered about 300 blue samples carefully going on about a million websites, thinking of what colour/ fabric combo would work in the room and then ordering them through the website and waiting patiently for them to arrive. And then Jamie would say ‘I don’t like that one’ and all my hard work would down the drain in a matter of seconds.

Also Jamie is colour blind! I have diagnosed him myself I’m not sure if he is colour blind or doesn’t know the right name for colours A typical exchange would be this I would hold up a blue swatch to the wall

Jamie: ‘I thought we weren’t having green.’
Andrea: ‘We’re not, it’s blue.’
Jamie: ‘Oh I thought it was green’
Andrea: ‘No it’s pretty much as blue as blue can get.’
Jamie: ‘looks green to me’
Andrea: ‘Well it’s not’
Jamie: ‘Oh I must be colour-blind’
Andrea: ‘Yeah you are’
Jamie: ‘I don’t like that one anyway’
Andrea: ‘Okay what about this one’
Jamie: ‘Is that blue? it looks green to me.’

That is what I am working with a colour challenged husband. Anyway we have finally decided on the blinds and they arrive in a week. The blue is so blue that even Jamie couldn’t call it a green although he did try to call it gray before he was hit with 300 flying fabric swatches. It is good the blinds are coming soon because we have been using a combination of net curtains and blankets and the coverage has not been that good so the neighbours have been getting an eyeful.

On a more exciting front we have bought a new super duper expensive vacuum cleaner. Well it’s not that expensive but more expensive than the £40 jobbies we usually get which have fallen off the back of the truck. Anyway our new vacuum is so strong it lifts the carpet up off the ground when it vacuums. And it has six settings for things like heavy soiled carpet, lightly soiled carpets and rugs which I was excited about until I worked out it was just another way to display Minimum and maximum settings.

Also the pipe is actual metals instead of plastic and it is heavy metal I know this because I whacked myself on my head with it. I have vacuumed the whole house twice. And to our surprise our carpet to a blue/grey colour not a blue/brown colour. Who knew?

Pics to come before and after reno when it is all finished.

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