Our conservatory furniture was delivered this week. Here's a couple of pictures (ignore the boxes of DVDs waiting to be unpacked!). They were taken first thing yesterday morning so the sun is quite bright, but I couldn't close the blinds because it would make the room too dark and there are no mains lights in there. I bought a standard lamp after work yesterday (which gave Rob the perfect opportunity to recommence his musings on why it's called a 'standard' lamp and not a 'standing' lamp), and it looked really cosy in there last night with the light on. Not that I did much sitting in there last night, because I was watching TV in the lounge, but I will definitely be spending a lot of time in there in the mornings when the sun is on the back garden.
After a month or so of being busy every weekend and not being able to do any more unpacking, I finally got round to sorting out the spare room a bit more last weekend. I unpacked the boxes of coats and out-of-season clothes and put them in the spare room cupboard. Then I filled a chest of drawers with stuff from another box, and I still have three boxes left to unpack and nowhere to put the contents... We've decided that the next step in the moving process hinges on getting Wayne, our friendly neighbourhood man with a van, to come round and clear the garage of all the boxes we've accumulated over the past month. He already came round once, about 3 weeks after we moved in, and took away a van load of rubbish, and we now have at least a van and a half's worth of boxes sitting in the garage taking up space. We concluded that we aren't going to use the garage to keep a car in (Rob's won't fit for one thing, and there's plenty of room on the driveway for our two cars and two more), so we should get some units put up in there to store the stuff that's still in boxes. So we now need Wayne to come round and take the boxes away so we can see how much space we have for shelving units etc.
Yesterday was 2 months to the day since we moved in and we're still not sorted...! But we're making progress - we bought a bathroom last weekend which we're hoping will be fitted while we're on holiday or very soon afterwards.
3 comments:
The conservatory looks like such a nice room to have. :)
It funny how the minor differences in our vocabulary translate. I have no idea what a "standard" lamp is versus a non-standard lamp. :) Also, you bought a whole bathroom? Did you not have one before? :)
Looks v nice Sally. Lovely addition to the house - and more space for you to relax in.
Just to let you know I've added you to the marathon alert. You'll get a text as I get over the half way line and then one when I cross finish. I think you might also get an email too. Not quite sure what's going to be in the text/email!!?? Hope you've sorted out your standard & non standard lamps now!! S xxx
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