More painting

This weekend we’ve been painting again. Last weekend we painted the lounge, kitchen and the two spare bedrooms.  This weekend we painted the other lounge, the hallway between the two spare bedrooms, the bathroom for the two spare bedrooms and the dining room.

We took some before and after photos of the dining room as it’s the only room where the colour is different enough to see a change!  It looks like we’ve painted it white but the colour is actually a light version of a paint called “Sugared Grapes”. It’s a light purple/grey colour.

We started painting at about 11am today after walking the dogs. It’s been really sunny today and the dining room is more like a conservatory as it has one completely glass wall.  It was like painting in a greenhouse! The paint was drying quicker than we could put it on the walls. We couldn’t even open the doors as we’d had to mask them with tape.

We did a second coat this afternoon but because the dining room was so dark before we need to do a third coat tomorrow. Neither of us can really face it but it has to be done!  The furniture is coming on Thursday so we want to finish most of the house by then.

The builders have been at the house over the last week. They have fixed the cladding on the front of the house and added some drainage at the back. They are back next week to build a fence so we can get some dogs.

While we were painting yesterday the real estate agent that sold us the house dropped in and brought us a bucket full of cleaning stuff and a cool-bag with wine, kumara chips and aubergine ketchup!

We also had a visit from Bruce (the man who owns the vineyard across the road from us and who has been looking after the vines on our property). The harvest is almost over for this year so he is going to show us what we need to do for next year. He told us there were lots of strange people living on our road and that they all had nicknames! We’re looking forward to meeting them J