What happens when you redecorate...

while your wife is writing her End of Module Assignment?

Well, it had to be done sometime and although I was dreading the disruption, I was able to escape to the conservatory and the sitting room does look much fresher now! With my University work finished for the summer break,  I'm finally getting around to posting pictures.

When we moved in, it was enough just to get the boxes sorted out so that we could:

• Find things
• Actually get into the rooms, instead of having to clamber over boxes
• Locate the cats before bed-time, in case one had decided to stay in the outside run and then wail at 2 a.m. because they wanted to Come In and Couldn't.

So furniture was put in place and that was that! We left things for two years and then decided it was time for a rethink. The layout in the sitting room worked, but the room did feel a little cramped and in any case, it was in dire need of repainting.

So after much deliberation and several sample pots, we chose a paint colour (Dulux White Mist in a matt finish) and I took a break from studying to help Kevin pack up the contents of the dresser so that it could be moved away from the wall. We bought another wall-light to complement the one that we had fitted last year and Kevin got to work.

This is the result - the room looks much larger now that the dresser is on the wall facing the windows. 

This means that Kevin finally gets to enjoy a spot by the wood burner!

The cats are happy because they now have two vantage points from which they can launch themselves on to the bookshelves (an unintended consequence and naturally not something that we had planned!) and they are also able to get closer to that wood burner when it is lit!