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One of my jobs over the past couple of days has been to smarten up the pool room with a lick of white paint. The walls were just bare concrete, which made that corner of the garden look pretty dark and dingy so it needed the full works doing for a good-looking finish. Here it […]
Two years ago we had a pool guy who would look after the pool for us and keep an eye on the pH and chlorine levels. He’d buy in all the chemicals, hoover it, clean it and send us a bill every now and then. My parents were both still at work then and would […]
On one very hot and sunny afternoon last weekend, both Mum and Dad had a little tipple too much over lunch. This was the result! Dare I say, it’s a few tubes of paint thrown at a white canvas. I think I can see a bird…
I started writing this post a few days ago but it quickly evolved into an extremely long post that needed splitting. I’ll explain why. We’ve got twenty-two rooms (including bathrooms) that need decorating and furnishing. That’s up to forty-four before and after photos. It’s going to be a mammoth task just to go through photographs and […]
And we’re done! The pool is finished! It took hours of sweeping, hours of painting, and then a day of waiting for the first coat to dry and the cement work on the hole to set before putting another coat on. But we made it. Yes, we made it! But oh wait, doesn’t a pool […]
