Here are some video snippets from this last week (10th - 14th December 2012). I have to admit that I had no idea that we'd made this video, we thought we were taking 'stills'.
First you see Stanley and Steven laying the Marley tile in the upstairs bathroom. It's a very large bathroom, bathed in the afternoon sunshine, with views over the ocean and to the North the indigenous hillside forest. It's going to be doubling up as my studio space, where I'll paint more pictures of lounging dogs.
The next snippet shows our chippie-team, Raymond and Gavin - a more congenial couple of chippies couldn't be imagined. They have built our wonderful farmhouse style fitted cupboards in our bedroom just beautifully. Nick's terrified at having so much space for clothes (he only has one shelf full of clothes).
Then you see various shots of the fitted carpet being put in upstairs. It'll get pretty well covered up by our persian carpets and kelims, and is really just a cosy background for them.
A good shot of myself cleaning windows. Phew, what a vile job. Marius the painter kept bringing a different couple of women to do this loathesome task each day, and I had to keep on teaching them how to do it. The job was made pretty impossible because each pane of glass had been siliconed into position inside and out, and the silicone had dried hard onto every pane of glass. Thank God that's over now.
Carpets going into the coldish bedrooms on the West side of the house. Then a shot of one of the team cutting the carpet on our new oak wood floor - Simon and Nick will be horrified to see that the chap doesn't bother with a protective sheet, just cuts away quite happily.... !
Lovely shots of the collection of hanging light fittings...most of these come from Nick - he has collected them all his life but never hung them up. Now at last, he's got the perfect venue for them all - isn't life odd and wonderful.
Then some shots of the paving that's happening outside. Lovely half-bricks interspersed with rounded pebbles.
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