Doing the laundry

It was a difficult morning getting up, the air was quite cool, the sky grey and there was a risk of rain. But after our morning tea in bed, we soon jollied each other to get up and start our day.

We wanted to try and move forward with the laundry room. We were at that stage where things were going to get worse before they got better. First of all we needed to bite the bullet and empty it out. Brian then suggested I paint the tongue and groove he’d put up. He had already undercoated it so I just needed to pick some paint from our collection we’d put together over the years. We had a very old pot of ‘eau de nil’ paint from Laura Ashley. I’ve no idea why we bought it, except I love the colour. This I think is the perfect time to use it, and luckily it had stored really well and went on nice and smooth. It is a really fresh colour, and I’m loving the look.

I then wanted to get a coat of floor paint onto the concrete slab we had laid previously. This also went down really well, although it will need a second coat.

Tomorrow we will be floating the self-levelling floor on the other half of the room so the last job today is to clean the floor down in preparation. We then need to understand what we need to do to lay it. All we do know is we will need to be prepared and work quickly, as it sets within about 20 minutes. Although to be safe, we will not walk on it for 24 hours.