Forever Painting the Front Wall

Nice clean painted wall

Lee is forever washing and painting the front wall. We live on a main road and it just gets filthy when it rains and the cars go by, so here is a picture of a nice clean wall. We might have to think about changing the colour from white but we still need a light colour as there are no street lights (which I am very thankful for).

Not much else I can say except for the reflectors. They are for me so that I don't drive past the house in the dark 😆

Funny Bin

Loving this sticker for our Bin, hopefully it will bring a smile or two.

Supposed to be a Camel

Front of House

Chimney Gone!

The leaking chimney has been removed. No point keeping it if there isn't even a fireplace. The Bad News is that it will probably take a few years for the wall to dry out and we will have to take the plaster off one wall in our bedroom. The Good News is that the builder found Wattle and Daub up there which is really interesting as we don't really know how old this cottage is. It's certainly had a couple of extensions but this means that it could date back to the medieval ages. He thinks it could have been some sort of workshop as there is a lot of soot up there. Lee has found an old rock with iron in it in the garden. Could be some sort of connection there?

From Dawn 'till Dusk

Chimney Removed

Little Orchard Update #1

The Magnolia tree is out of it's pot with a little brute force from Lee. John the Gargoyle is guarding the patch and the little Robin likes to perch on his head. Dividing fence is down which opens it up a lot. Weed surpressing membrane is down and wood bark has been spread. I've bought a Cherry Tree and my favourite Eating Apple 'Egremont Russet'. So hopefully we can just leave this patch until we are ready to trim the hedge. We now have 9 Fruit Trees, 7 Fruit Bushes, a Magnolia and Little Weeping Cherry. I'm not sure what the bushes are, the leaves are just coming out but I think we have a Gooseberry Bush and some Blackcurrants.

Half Done, then I ran out of bark

Here we go again

All Done

Edges left clear for wood border

Left Side

Right Side

Before Left

Before Right

After

Caravan Patch

Slowly making progress on the patch by the side of the caravan. This has been pretty hard going. The ground is very gravelly and full of stones but I've managed to clear it of weeds ready for plants. So glad we brought some of our plants from Birmingham. Hopefully they will all take and we will have a nice border this Summer. At the moment I'm making do with our pot plants and existing plants from the new garden. Saving little primroses from all over the garden is not the most exciting of jobs but I'm after low maintenance ground cover that will look pretty in Spring. Lee has started making a new fence after the wind demolished the existing one.

Plants from Birmingham

The start of planting up

Plants in this border include: Hawthorn Tree, Buddleia, Holly Tree, Hydrangea, Roses, Peasants Bush, Winter Camelia, Red Robin, Ferns, Lavender, Lupins, Roses, Foxgloves, Daffodils and Primroses. I think this border is going to be very full once it has grown.

Lee's fence made from little fences

Primroses planted up to here

More Primroses

Almost there.

Bedroom

We have a storage problem in the bedroom and the layout is a little awkward for a double bed as the ceiling is quite low, but we are working on solving that problem by building fitted cupboards. In the meantime here are some pictures of our progress. Our main problem is the leaking chimney stack which resulted in the paper on one wall coming off. It was lined with polystyrene so all of it was stripped and we are now letting the wall dry out. This hasn't stopped us from painting the rest of the bedroom though to freshen and clean it up. Gone is the Blue and Yellow colour scheme and welcome to Damson.

I desperately needed a wardrobe so went to a junk shop and bought this wreck. Some of it was completely rotten and Lee treated the rest with woodworm treatment before I got started on it.

Wardrobe Project

Bottom of Wardrobe

Rubbed it down and painted it up. Lee fixed the wonky door and drawer and sawed off part of the legs so that it fitted in our tight space. Just about got it up the stairs.

Drawer at Bottom

Painted Up

Side View

Our Bed is Too Big

Because most of our house stuff is in storage we were sleeping on the mattress on the floor. This was fine but when we went and got our bed, this was the result.

Bed Almost Touches Ceiling

Luna helping as usual

Okay, so we are now waiting for a lower bed.

These doors are just bugging me for some reason - I just don't like them. So ... I ordered some very different wallpaper and decided to make a feature wall out of it. I'm just waiting for Lee to do his wardrobe at the end and hopefully I can make a good job of putting it up. Slightly worried as there is a little packet of glue with the wallpaper?

Horrible Wood Effect Paint Job

Love this wallpaper

Painted the rest of the bedroom, sorry not colour co-ordinated at the moment.

Painted Steamer Trunk

View from Window 1

Our Neighbour

Waiting for Wall to Dry Out

Painted Wardrobe

Lee's Wardrobe going Here

Fitted cupboards all along this wall

View from 3rd Window

Plasnewydd in the Snow

Apparently it doesn't snow much in Tregaron.

House

Just outside house

Garage, Caravan and Mini Orchard

Outside Kitchen Window

Mum's Little Fatima

Birds come all day

The Road

Outside kitchen window

Chicken Coop and Run in the Mini Orchard

Vegetable Patch

Luna's enclosure

Lining up the pictures on this blog is driving me nuts! How can these all be Left Aligned hmmph.

Perfect Little Corner

I was going to plant my Rose of Sharon here but it's filled out with little Snowdrops, Crocus and Daffodils so this pretty little corner is staying as it is. Might paint the tractor thingy though.

Little Corner of Paradise

Tractor Thingy