Our little kitchen is quite grotty...it's clean, but grotty, in spite of the new cooker and shiny scarlet microwave. The back wall is sort of soggy because there's a chimney there...with the gap where there was a hole now covered up in stones and tons of plaster...but the plaster is bulging in an unseemly way and I have visions of it simply falling off in a lump in the middle of the night.
And there's a horrible and slightly ominous brownish liquid which seeps out of the window sills...
So Himself suddenly decided something had to be done.
He says we're going to tile everything. We are? Behind the cooker and the windows and so on he said...
So I asked him about the roof...you'll recall the problems with the leaky roof and the trouble to find someone who'll shin up a ladder and mend the holes...if you were really tall, you might not need a ladder actually...so he said, if I can find a roofer person then we'll have it fixed...but how to find someone who won't chew their bottom lip and heave heavy sighs and shake their head in a sorrowful manner...and then charge vast amounts of ready cash...and tramp in and out demanding the lend of a hammer or do I have a bit of old rag and would we have a bucket and spend hours on their 'phone...grunting.
In the meantime, we are apparently going to tile everywhere...when Luke and Cindy went to live on the edge of a Swedish forest inhabited by cross Moose's and even crosser Bears with plenty of wily Wolves, they left us all the stuff they didn't need to take...some of which was boxes of plain white tiles. It'd have been nicer if they were Victorian tiles, decorated with flowers and such like, but beggars can't be choosers...I doubt Luke would have allowed Cindy to buy antique tiles anyway...he's as tight as his Father when it comes down to money...never spent his pocket money...used to hoard it for months.
So, where was I...I do rather think it'll be a case of me sitting on the kitchen stool directing operations rather than taking a more active part in his tiling malarkey...
I'll let you know when it all begins.
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Blimey vashti! I know you can buy special tile paint so you could transform those white tiles into a vashti work of art. Wishing you and himself best of luck!!!!
I like white tiles as you can decorate them if you please. My kitchen and bathroom are white I add my hint or splash of red or black depending but easily changeable.
Workmen on mobiles just hate it! Audrey x
Can't wait to hear how himself goes on with the tiling. Hope they stay on the wall Vashti. X
Oh Vashti, I wish you luck!! I can remember only too well the last time other half decided to change the tiles in the kitchen. Most of the plaster came away with them and we ended up by having to pay exhorbitent amounts of money to a builder!! I'll be interested to hear the next stage in the saga! 😀😀
Oh dear Vashti, Don't envy you one bit, but it will be lovely when it's finished, Yes,don't you hate it when asking someone to do something,they always sigh and look worried, Jobs worth Ithink, Good luck, Best wishes, Bulpit
Oooooooo,sounds like someone is going to be busy, hope all goes well,no falling out now,Lol hubby and I usually disagree on how things should be done, if there is a short cut he will take it,so I am on alert all the time until job is complete.after all these yrs he is used to me watching,and at each stage he says, are you happy with that.
At least the tiles will be easy to clean,and being white will brighten the room, let us know how it all goes,and a piccie would be nice.
Our kitchen is north-facing and gets a smidge of sun for an hour in late afternoon, but only in summer and only if the sun shines - and this is Wales, so that's not a given by any means. In ma-in-laws day it ran with condensation if she just boiled a kettle so we bit the bullet and battened and pine-cladded the lot. Very 1970's looking now but it's warm - no doubt it'll be all the rage as "retro" given time.
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