More painting............

I have had a productive week this week painting feature walls in the Ensuite and Family rooms, while Kell did her rooms.
I am soooo pleased with the outcome of all rooms, tho the family room wall needs tizzing up.

Kelly had no trouble at all picking out two purple shades for her rooms....on the other hand it took awhile, a long while to find a suitable red for the family room...in the end i took a scrap of cardboard off a coke box and took it with me to Bristol....all the reds we had seen have been a brown base...in the end we ended up with a Tint base...so when i say i am pleased with the way it turned out it would be an understatement.
As for the Ensuite i knew i wanted a very pale shade of blue, some of them looked great until you put the swatch up on the wall and they turned out to be too dark.

Eventually the hall will have its major wall painted yellow to brighten it up....eventually.

Also after finally getting my plants from my mums, where they have been for nearly 2 years, i got around (with a little help from the family) to planting the gardenias in front of the study window....i underplanted them with the dwarf Hidecote lavanders from the driveway bed....it will look stunning in the spring  :)

The colour is Icemist

The wall looks lonely

Red tint base...love it

The colour on the archway believe it or not is the same colour as the wall in the other room

The archway and wall in the other room

Lounge update...

Well the colours go very well with my curtains....

Before shot from November 2010

After shot June 2011

Feature wall in lounge....

After painting the niche in the lounge hallway, it was very obvious to us that the feature wall in the lounge also needed to be painted...and as it is the Queens birthday longweekend what a good time to do it.

So far it looks awesome...just need to wait for the paint to dry enough so i can put the curtains/blinds back up.  Fingers crossed that the colours go alright with the the drapery.

After one coat

Final coat

Lounge...

Well...after much humming and arring....we finally decided what colour/s we wanted to paint the wall opposite the lounge...We had to wait until we could go to a Bristol store so they could colour match the colours off our curtains, only to be told when we got there that the colour sample has to be flat...what the???...so we had to go to the sample wall and try and match the colours in the curtain to the paint...pretty impressive...we actually managed to get them pretty close to the colours we wanted.

That was my project over the last couple of days....painting...its something i enjoy doing...could have had it done in one sitting, except for the fact that i was using two colours...never mind, it is done now and i must say that it makes the wall look alot warmer.

The inner wall is Taubmans Vellum Smoke, while the border is Taubmans Creme Fraiche...in the photos its hard to see the later as it almost blends into the main wall colour but in person it is noticable...we liked is so much that we are thinking of doing the opposite wall in the lounge in the two colours...the window walls in the Vellum Smoke and the fireplace wall in the Creme Fraiche.

With the Creme Fraiche done

the Vellum Smoke

completed...the colour is better in the pic above

More shelving...

After a long delay, Tony and I finally got around to putting up the extra hanging shelf in the garage today....finally our garage is coming together.

the re-stacked area...underneath all the boxes is a tall boy, waiting to go to my mums

The new shelf...most of the items stored here are books and such that cannot go out in the shed

Letterbox

Finally our estate is now receiving our post via a mailman....it is so good not to have to go down the street to check the mail.  Delivery started last week but you had to have a letterbox up...did we...nope, it was still sitting in pieces in the garage.

So last week Tony and I erected it...sadly we had to wait until this week to be able to use it...talk about Australia Post ripping us off....Mid March I paid for our postal box, as no-one knew when the deliveries would start...so in i went on Monday to cancell the box and start receiving our mail in our letterbox on Tuesday.....there was a cancellation fee....all i got back was $6....the woman said to me, "didn't you know when you were getting the mail delivered when you paid for your box?"   Like,  NO!!...or i wouldn't have paid it..duh...

Anyway..here is our pretty letterbox, which received its first mail today   :)

Backyard 3......

Over the last couple of days we have managed to put in the edges for the paths in the backyard as well as laying the first layer of the crushed brick, it will now be over a week until we can continue, this will be when Tony has his next lot of days off...he wants to hire a 'wacker' for two days to compact the brick down so we can lay some more on top of it.
Anyway, the pics for so far...

The path to the dogs shed

along the edge of the house

utility area

the rest of the area will be grassed...gradually so we can control when the dogs can go onto it  :)

the area in front of the shed will be grassed, the larger area is where the clothesline will be on the fence

part of the sideway done