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Before the Christmas Storm

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At the top of our landing, right outside our bedroom and underneath the loft hatch, there are currently about twenty bags or boxes containing Christmas decorations. The boxes and bags are all different shapes and sizes. Some are labelled and some are not. Some contain lights that may or may not work and others contain ornaments that will absolutely be going to a charity shop in about a week’s time. We get our tree on Sunday you see, it’s a big day in this house. The kids are three and a half and I am going to milk Christmas for all it’s worth before the hormones kick in. I figure I have at least 7 or 8 years which may seem like a long time to you but you have no idea how much I love Christmas. Well, you do (I know you do) but what’s happened is that I’ve given birth to two people who ALSO love it.

 

My work here is done.

 

Goodbye.

For the past few weeks I have been readying the house for the onslaught of decorations that will be hitting it over the next 2 weeks or so (pulling up carpets while my husband is at work because then it’s done and he can’t say anything etc). Robert and I have gone in to fast forward on this place as there is nothing like Christmas to make you want to get the house ready. Last year it was thoroughly unrealistic to have made very much progress but this year we’re much better placed to know what we should be doing and when. We know the house a bit better if that makes sense.

The first room we finished in it’s entirety was the Sitting Room. We’re in it too much to not have it completed but it still took us a very long time.

This is just a corner of it. I’ll be able to show you the rest when we’ve got the tree up because I’ve also finished the bay window and the curtains and it’s all coming together really well.

This is the top left corner of the room and is nice to be in if you’re not in the mood to watch TV but you still want to be in the room with the fire in it. The over-sized ‘Love’ seat is too large for anywhere really but I’m loathe to sell it as I think I’ll regret it.

On the walls we used Dulux ‘Cotton White’

On the picture rail we used Blackened by Farrow & Ball

And on the all the woodwork we used a Wickes undercoat/primer and a Dulux wood and metal paint in Brilliant White.

It’s quite a simple part of the room and the corner that is the least filled with ‘stuff’.

From here you can see out in to the garden but you can also see across the field next door and out on to the road that runs past our house. It’s odd, and some don’t agree (certainly the valuation for our house doesn’t agree) but I like seeing the headlights at nighttime. When I’m here alone with the kids I like to know that there are people out there that I can see.

In 2014 we’ll do the windows. I’ve tried the Annie Sloane chalk paint on them in the Sunroom and it works well on UPV windows, which is what several of the windows in this house are made from. I’ve also already cut all the fabric to make the curtains for this window but time is no longer on my side. 2014 will continue to see the renovation of our house, which is no bad thing.

 

And later today all the loose slipcovers that I can’t fit in to my washing machine are off to the cleaners as they have a mammoth washer that will cope with them. I like this kind of ‘preparation on speed’ because it means that those jobs that I’ve been putting off will get done and we’ll all feel the benefit while stuffing our faces with baked Camembert and Quality Street.

 

This is how the room was when we moved in.

It’s better now. Trust me. ;-)

i love you and I’m back tomorrow.

Cherry x

 

 

 

 


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