Renovation Diary: Chapter Eight
One step forward three steps backwards, jobsworths, apathy, panic attacks and privet based fantasies.
You’ll have seen that our windows went in a few weeks ago now, and they are brilliant. All my worries melted away and I love the way they look. I’ve even (kind of) moved on from the handles being an issue. Mind you, they look terrible from inside - not the windows themselves, but the collateral damage of the old ones being removed, which I mentioned in my dedicated window post was quite substantial - some rooms are worse than others - due to the very thick frames that were likely covering up gaps from the original sash window boxes. When the rooms are being re-plastered it will all be sorted, but until then we just have to live with it looking less than pretty.
I’m sure there’s an analogy in the fact that they look great from the outside but are a bit of a hot mess from within.
Our room is pretty bad but when writing in there earlier I realised that there’s no reason not go ahead and order blinds for in there as well as for the kids rooms. Eventually I plan to add curtains in our room as well, but the blinds will make me a lot happier in the meantime than having one completely bare and the other with the old depressing curtains, and hopefully serve as a distraction from the chaos.
Rather ridiculously, as there is a street light that shines directly in my face a night via that curtainless window, I’ve been going to bed not with an eye mask, but with a scarf draped dramatically over my face. I must look an absolute sight. I do actually have an actual eye mask somewhere, but I’m not sure it’s ever revealed itself since our move. I’ll add that to the missing in action list.
I will of course have to temporarily remove any new blinds during the renovation and store them, but I’d rather that than waste money and materials on anything temporary, and I don’t think I want to spend too many more nights with a street light shining in my face either. Plus the kids may have mentioned a few times that they’d quite like their rooms to have blinds again. So that’s a job that I need to get on to but before I do need to put some more work into finalising the designs those rooms, and Baxter’s current room won’t actually be his final room - his room will eventually be the TV room, so he’s going to have to put up with whatever I choose. Are you keeping up?
