Day 344 – Curtain Up!

In my Day 318, Day 319 and Day 320 posts I showed pics of one of our old windows going to be removed to make way for a nice new window.

In order for the workmen to do what they had to do, we had to take down our curtain and the rail as everything to do with the old window was being taken out so from then until the day I took this photo we were without a curtain or curtain rail.

Paul’s son Clive came over one evening to help us put up a new rail (only temporary until the ceiling where the new window is is fixed) so I had to take a photograph of this to record what was happening on this day!! 

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2012

Paul was assisting Clive while he did all the climbing about and hard work and of course I had to oversee the boys! 

Day 320 – The New Window

Here is the new window on the day after it was fitted.

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012

We are very pleased with the new window.  We can actually see the garden through it rather than looking through condensation on the window!  We can also actually open the two side windows and I don’t think they will ever be painted shut like our old window!!

Now all we have to do is tidy up the garden since we can now see it through the window. 

Day 319 – Being Fitted

 

This was the day the new window was being fitted.  We weren’t too happy about it being done so close to Christmas because of the upheaval and the men doing the replacement could not promise us that it would be completed in one day, so we were having horrors about a gaping hole being left overnight if they did not finish it on this day!!  Especially as it is so cold and windy too!!

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012

I took this photograph while the men were having a little break!!

Thankfully they were able to finish it in one day but had to come back to do a little more sealing in places outside and we could see daylight through the bottom of the window frame until they came back the next day.  We just hoped it wasn’t going to be too windy and cold overnight otherwise it would have been very draughty!!

Day 318 – All Change!

 

I decided to take this photograph because the next day everything was going to change!

 

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012

The day after I took this photograph the window was being taken out and replaced by a nice new one!

This one is looking a bit murky but until we took the shelf away that was acting as a window-sill we didn’t realise quite how bad it was!

The window was almost falling out, it was very old, and we had constant condensation there and were forever having to repaint it to make it look a lot better.

The windows themselves were painted shut and had been like that for many years before we moved here.

So, all change and looking forward to a much nicer window!!

 

Day 185 – New Curtains … Clean Curtain Danglers!

Ha ha, this is a bit of a silly, fun pic really.  I mentioned in an earlier post that we are starting to paint and decorate in the house.  We have bought some new curtains for three rooms to put up when the decorating is all done.  (Our other curtains are all ok, we just wanted a bit of a change)! 

We decided that we needed more curtain danglers to add to the ones we already have just so the new curtains hang that bit better than our old ones do.

My man Paul was rummaging about and came across quite a pile of curtain danglers which were a bit dusty, so he thought it would be good to clean them up a bit before they go on the new curtains.

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011

So here they are all sitting happily in some lovely hot soapy water.  They came out sparkling!!   Now they are just waiting for the new curtains to be added – after the decorating is finished. 

Day 169 – A Bit Of Painting …

 

We thought it was time to start doing a bit of freshening up in the house with regard to painting and decorating.  It’s quite a long time since any was done so my man Paul found some paint and brushes in readiness for the spruce up!!

 

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011

We’ve got several rooms we want to splash a bit of paint about in so this will probably be done over several days.

We just have to make sure our doggie Pippin doesn’t get too close to the wet bits and end up with a blob of paint on the end of her nose!!