Paint and finishing up

Another day of progress here as we head towards the end of the renovation year; what we've achieved this year really does blow my mind

Raining and miserable

Preparing to paint

Bringing the old light fittings back to life

Sally paints the ceiling

Cutting pipe for a curtain pole

It has rained all day today, I was even woken in the night (mainly because I ran to shut windows) and there was flickering of lightning but no thunder. I took Rosie to school this morning and she cried a bit as I handed her over. The men were a little late arriving but were there by the time I got back. Hikmet was in today but due to the rain I didn't see him at all as he was inside the shed breaking the wood up. Inside Sally and Halil were into the library, Halil scraping the walls and Sally masking off, so they could get started on the painting. Bekir was preparing the light fittings for the upstairs corridor as they needed cleaning and polishing, and then the actual globes needed washing as well; we are reusing the old light fittings from the corridor so they were in quite a bad way. With the preparatory work done the paint started to go on the ceiling in the library. Bekir and I headed out to the shops to pick up some more supplies and we also went to the steel yard to get a pipe that will be used to hang curtains across the end of the corridor, if we decide we want to.

Fittings being fitted

More ceiling paint

Lights are done done

Curtain pole for the inside window

Now the walls are being painted

Rosie proofing the games room

A tribute, from Halil

When we got back Bekir carried on cleaning then suddenly he was ready and fitting the fitments to the ceiling. Downstairs the first coat went on before lunch and the second coat shortly after lunch and so the ceiling is all painted! All of a sudden upstairs the globes were in place, bulbs fitted, and now the upstairs corridor is officially completed (barring that new curtain pole but it needs painting before it can be fitted really - tomorrow maybe) with the curtain rail by the bedroom inner window fitted as well. Very very exciting and this continued with the wall paint being applied downstairs (though neither Sally nor Halil were very impressed with our choice of colour!). Upstairs Bekir started to fit the door latch to the games room door, so we can keep it secure from Rosie and we ended up with Halil writing Rosie's name in paint just before they finished the first coat. I had collected Rosie from school just an hour early today, which is incredible, and picked up more paint for the walls as they were running out already and I want at least one more coat if not two on there.

Rosie stares at the rain

Dinner time rainbow

An amazing sky

Jumping in puddles

It really did rain all day today, and neither Rosie nor the puppies were very impressed by this, but then suddenly it cleared and the sun came out and there was a stunning rainbow and an INCREDIBLE sky when we went out for puddle jumping after dinner.

A busy day indeed; final update of the week tomorrow so see you then.