more green:
(i.e. painter dude is back, now that we’ve decided the whole house should be green and not just the bit at the back)

possible pretentious title for above photo: “The transition from a life of Pumpkin Walls to Jolive Green Lifestyle Living, with a Unicorn, as a Young Man, Again Last Summer.”
Umm…

And a shower.

:-)

As you may be able to tell from the first pic, the door to nowhere is now gone.
A bit sad to lose it, but it was kak and crumbling, so *slap* it goes.

We like.
It’s a bit hard to get a decent colour match for a piccy…
And it’s amazing what a difference a bit of shade makes – you’d swear the paint on opposite walls was a different colour.

1. So, the pool is now really, really up and running and in use a bit. On hot days.
   And after getting back from the Strandloper. :-D

   The solar heating is now operational.
   They had to come back about six times to get it fixed – it kept sprouting leaks.
   In the meantime, we renamed it the Solar Leaking System.
   It heats the pool by pumping cold water up to roof and spraying it out there. That means there’s less cold water in the pool, and therefore it must be warmer. … ahem.
   But now it’s actually fixed and doesn’t leak – yay!
   And the pool is slowly heating up – now with less ice cold chill!

2. The pool has been named Tron, due to it’s nighty glowage.
   Hat tip to Mr G.
3. Green!
   Jo Olive Green will soon be the colour of the back of the house.
   After going through seven hundred and thiry four tester pots of various greens (that, obviously, never did eactly what they said on the tin) Jo mixed up the green she wanted and painted it on a bit of cardboard, took it to a shop, and they matched and mixed it for her.

   (First attempt was amusing.
   Jo: Can you match this colour for me?
   Assistant lady: Yes. *walks over to wall of paint swatches*
   Jo: Um, never mind. *gets cardboard back, walks off*)

4. In other news, our uber-builder is quoting around a couple of people we’ve recommended him to – hopefully that will all go well.

And, he’ll quite possible be turning up sometime next week to start doing deck related stuff – woo!
Expect another series of pics soon.

]]> http://comovedy.com/wrenschovations/2008/10/25/various-new-names/feed/ 2 http://comovedy.com/wrenschovations/2008/09/24/spring-cleaning-and-greening/ http://comovedy.com/wrenschovations/2008/09/24/spring-cleaning-and-greening/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:05:42 +0000 Steve http://comovedy.com/wrenschovations/?p=132 Well, there have been some good things going on recently in the house. We cleared up a whole bunch of junk in both the inside and outside spare room type rooms. Floor! Space! All this, and more, can be yours.

Also:

Wine rack re-installed
(Yay! No more piles of cardboard boxes in the hallway.
Now we just need to: buy lots more wine to fill it up; put something cool on the wall next to it).



Jo made an awesome coat rack (pictured here naked) in the hallway, round the corner
(Yay! No more wild coats roaming the hall, grazing on the cardboard boxes).



In other news: we are considering painting the outside of the house.
Probably green.
Maybe just the back bit.
Colour splats, applied today:


The two on the right are starting to look like the right kind of thing…

More samples, senor!

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