This page has been a long time coming...but better late than never, right? Anyway...here are some pictures of various rooms in the flat before we started painting. When we finish painting (or perhaps I should say *if*), I will put some up of the finished product. It has been an interesting project so far, the main colour turning out to be a bit more pink than brown, but hey...we can't complain, we're not paying for the paint! Still a couple walls left to do, and the shower area...one day. Oh and the fence, too bad I don't have a before picture of that! Anyway, here is where Al and I spend our days...


Notice the funny-coloured patches? Those are where the paint was touched up with glossy stuff, and not the right colour either. This is just before I started painting this wall one morning - Al's handiwork on one wall in the kitchen, the pinky colour is the new one...isn't he cute!


This is the old colours that were in our bedroom, aren't they sexy??? You can even see the end of one of our "love lights" (the romantic fluorescent industrial lights in our bedroom)...they are a disaster and a half, thank goodness for bedside (incandescent!) lamps!


Here is half of our bathroom, from the hallway...the toilet is behind the open door to the left, next to that half-wall.


Our waching machine and deep sink, yes the sink is made of cement...very nice, we know. The 3 steps up to the bedroom and bathroom are just to the left of the photo, and the door you see on the right is the door into the shower. And to the right of that is the kitchen. Not your conventional living space...Behind me is the lounge.


Ok...so, the shower is directly to the left of this picture. The cupboard on the left in the foreground is where we keep our dishes, and obviously random stuff on top. Microwave is on the bench next to the fridge, and the lovely yellow paint is what the two concrete block walls were painted before we got after them...so our whole lounge was that colour. The kitchen is actually rather clean, yay for me...it is rarely in that state. And the open space behind the cuboard in front (on the wall next to the 3 ones in back) now has shelves, courtesy of Al. Don't really know what else to say about this one!


This is outside the flat, across the fence from our front yard...this is what we awoke to one morning, wondered what the heck was going on. Turned out to be a practise exercise, quite cool to watch! You can see that telephone pole thing on top of that wee white stationwagon just to the right of the SUV, they did the whole jaws of life thing and propped the pole up on blocks etc etc. The thing that confused us at first was that we were sure we hadn't heard sirens, you would think that if two fire trucks showed up next door with sirens blaring we would wake up...so that was odd..it was only when we went to the BP to get a paper that one of the men told us it was a drill. Our front gate is in the foreground...notice the proper fence to the right and the sexy corrugated iron one to the left.


We are always having random things turn up over there, this is the same place as above, and this traction engine just pulled in and parked there one Sunday afternoon! Yet again, Al was transfixed. It was a pretty cool old thing.

More pictures yet to come, watch this space for ones of the outside of the flat (the garden when I get it all weeded), the fence, and the new paint job inside! Don't hold your breath though, they may be a while.

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