26/06/2026
S T O R Y T I M E 🩷 I casually rang a guy at the end of last week. I have been trying to arrange timing for him to put a ceiling up in one of the rooms at home. He's had a 18 month waitlist. We were ok to wait for him, being laid back renovators (insert laughing hysterically emoji here). He said "Oh I can be there on Monday" I said "Great, see you then, what time" and made this face 😳🤣 as we had a two day workshop booked for Sat / Sunday. He said 7am. My brain went "Sheesh", my mouth said "Fantastic! See you then!"
So far this week… he has installed a pressed tin ceiling beautifully. Then he ripped out carpet, underlay and all the treasures underneath the underlay (whole other story) to see what the floor is like. The original floorboards are there and strangely really unusual. We are going to have a timber floor now instead of carpet. Embracing the weirdness. Then because it was bucketing down with rain and he'd driven a distance to talk floors, so as not to waste a day he stripped out the room. John is de-nailing walls and floor and then we are ready for electrical, walls and floor. Matt is keeping us on our toes.
Long story short. We will be leaving at 1pm today to go and get things so we are ready for 7am next Monday again. Please don't kill us. Please wish us well.
This is how the room used to look…
Isn't the "ABC" wallpaper on the masonite ceiling sexy as anything! I don't know how we will ever live without the 50s carpet and a mix of masonite and panelled walls. We have been here 33 years now.