New living room

OK, so for the past week, Steve has been painting the living room and the kitchen. This included the laborious job of painting the ceiling which the previous owners decided for some reason best known to themselves to paint. White. Luckily the rest of the house has stained timber ceilings intact, but Steve had to repaint the living room and kitchen ceilings. Back and neck-breaking work. Once the ceilings were done then the walls were painted. The blue shrouding gives it a certain surgical space look, doesn't it.

And the finished look. Once the walls were painted we could throw up our art and this wonderful big mirror on to the walls. Steve became very frustrated with the studfinder...no, not that kind of stud....timber studs so he could safely drill for the screws.

The famous leather lounge we bought up at the Gold Coast on the pretence of going into Freedom to look at cushions.

And we unloadedall the boxes of CDs and DVDs which are now finally back in their rightful place. We have a Help_Xer, Gabriel from Taiwan, staying with us at the moment, so he carefully catalogued and arranged in alpha order all the CDs. Oh and I scrubbed, yes scrubbed on hands and knees, each one of those floor tiles. Yesterday. So now all we really have to paint are the wardrobe doors and the interior is done. Then it's exterior walls and verandahs and railings....