Z's kitchen countdown - 4 - Z pays for the kitchen

 It's raining hard and has been most of the weekend, which is what tends to happen when school holidays start.  So Scott the painter can't work outside, so he's been stripping the wallpaper in the cloakroom and bathroom and will do the lining paper next.  After that, there are still several indoor jobs to do, so I'm glad he won't leave to work somewhere else.

That was what I wrote on Monday morning, before being called away to something I don't remember.  So, to catch up from then.

The wallpaper has been stripped from both rooms, the lining paper applied and the first coat of paint, just to seal it, has been applied to the cloakroom.  From my angle, I've chosen the paint for the cloakroom, study (aka kitchen) and (actual) kitchen, though I might change it once I've seen how it looks in the study.  I've also chosen and ordered the wallpaper for the bathroom and the colour for its paintwork.

I've cleared out the larder and put everything from the broom cupboard into the larder (now, officially, the broom cupboard).  

I have decided on the colour of the painting on the tiles to go behind the Aga.  As they will be Delft-style, I wanted them to be blue, but Delft blue is too blue for the kitchen cupboards.  But I happened to have bought, recently, a Lowestoft mug in a soft grey-blue that, it suddenly occurred to me, might be the right shade.  It is.  It goes well with the cupboards but it is not green enough to be wrong for Delft.

I'd meant to go to the tile place today, but lunch out took longer than I'd expected, so I left it.  Maybe tomorrow.  I've been into the flooring place in Yagnub about new flooring in the cloakroom and bathroom.  I have yet to choose.

Scott has taken out the breeze blocks and opened up the doorway between the main kitchen and its adjunct.  He didn't need to remove the cupboards to do that.  That was a mercy.

Today is Ro's birthday and yesterday was the anniversary of moving to this house, 39 years ago.

This afternoon, I paid the whole bill for the kitchen and for its fitting.  I've already paid for the flooring in both areas - all three, in fact, as I'm also having the lobby re-floored.  

I will clear the cupboards in the cloakroom and use the space for kitchen stuff.  I'm pretty triumphant about that, as it will save me from having to have a lot of stuff just dumped randomly in boxes.  All the same, the house has a lot of random stuff, dumped.  

I've ticked off so much on the to-do list that I've been able to add more things to do.  I have, in fact, more to write, but I'm too tired.