lounge

This was another urgent area to be done as this is where most of our down time would be spent. Pretty hard to relax in a room that had been painted fire engine red, well, not quite but pretty close.

Surprisingly it only took a couple of coats of undercoat to get rid of the red and the walls sat undercoat white for quite some time while it took forever to decide on what colour we were putting through the house. This was done during a really cold snap of weather so it was wonderful to be able to have the fire, the temptation to just sit in front of the fire was huge and there were some days not an awful lot got done and time was closing in on moving in day so we had to try and be a bit more disciplined.

5 more mins won't hurt...

.....and you know, I am starting to grow fond of these white walls, do you think we need to paint them? LOL!

In the end we did paint them and the lounge is almost finished, I (as Brent apparently doesn't do painting) just have to do the skirting in the tv corner...was gonna do that today, but.....well....it was windy so it didn't happen!

However, this is close to the end result...

and just for fun.....flashback!

ahhh haha....how straight is that hair!!

All well and good but we hadn't at this point worked out how we were going to give Rokky free access into the house, what seems a simple task was in fact quite complex as the way the house sits on the section it in effect has 2 front doors, the complicated part came in trying to section off a front and back. The front area we would like to keep as a turn around area for the cars and the back door faces the wrong way to fence off between the porch and the garage. The solution we came up with was to put the dog door coming out of the lounge wall in the corner, this meant a little deck had to be built just for Rokky! It was heartbreaking to have a hole punched through the wall when I thought I had finished in the loung but one must do what one must do to please the dog! And yep....still not quite finished but it does the job....another one for the "round to it" pile.

It took a few practice runs with Rokky, but really he only had to be shoved through a few times, the problem is when all the other doors are open he is confused as to what he is supposed to do! Anyhow he has settled in nicely and will always be content as long as he is around us. Not alot bothers this little fella.

Taa daa....