Yes, I know the pretty site is gone and it’s looking a little depressing. I am trying to fix it. I needed a more functional theme, and unfortunately this was the best I could get. I am going to tweak it and make it pretty, just haven’t had a chance yet.
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Today the pool was pegged out. It was one of those measure twice dig a bloody huge hole for a pool ONCE moment. I can’t tell you how many times I measured, quietly freaking out all the while.
The kind man who is the builder of the pool was very helpful, and the pegs were plunged into the ground, very final. The nice news is the thickness of the concrete will only be 25cm, so there will be plenty of space right up to the pool to plant!!
Then there was the most intense 15 minutes of decision making I have had to endure in a long time. Depth of the shallow end? (1.2m) Deep end? (2m) Other end? (1.35m) Steps? 3 Size? 30cm Depth? 30cm Length? 60cm then 40cm then 30cm Height of the pool out of the ground??? (holy shit are you kidding?? same height as the GROUND??) Same hight as water course on house should allow for a small rise up to pool helps water run off.
Sigh! I won’t go on, you get the idea. Lights positioning, colour, temporary fencing, electrical lines, placement of plant, real fencing, coping, paving… oh god. make it stop.
It did, and I signed and now I wait until Friday when they will dig THE hole for the pool.
THAT is cool.
Bring it on.
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The bin was delivered yesterday, and today, Brett turned up and made my garden a dustbowl.
Tomorrow the water tank and garden shed get moved and then the pool guys can come on over and dig a massive dusty hole in the dustbowl…
Wow.
Today I had to get out of the house for a while as Brett was demolishing my garden. I decided I would go and look at some carpet.
After always thinking that polished floor boards were all you ever need, I have been turned onto carpet by Paul. He really wants it and we have compromised on carpet in our bedroom. I will never want wall to wall carpet everywhere, but it’s nice in a few rooms.
I arrived at the carpet shop to interrogate the carpet man! My main worries about carpet are these: I want as high a stain resistance as possible, I hate lying or sitting on carpet that then leaves hair all over me and I don’t want to pay $100 a sqm.
I asked to look at the highest quality nylon and wool and we discussed the differences. Wool is a natural product and therefore cannot be treated with stain resistant products and is hard to clean. It is also sheds, constantly. I didn’t realise this, I thought this was all new carpets, no, it’s just wool and it lasts YEARS. This is a real issue for people with allergies, also the small fibres allow dust mites to breed in the carpet. Dust mites can’t breed in nylon.
I looked very closely at both the wool and the nylon. I could mostly not tell the difference, some of the wool carpets were very fuzzy looking, partly due to the constant shedding, partly due to the natural fibre.
SO. I am going nylon. I know some of you will think I’m mad. But I just can’t see why I would use wool when the advantages to nylon are so obvious! I found a lovely colour, a kind of mushroom grey. The carpet place has free installation at the moment, I am considering placing my order, but I’d love some feedback!! The colour I want is the top one on the pic below. It’s the most expensive nylon at $57sqm. The wool I was looking at with the same colour and cut was the same price.
This is my Pinterest page. Please come, join and share!
Ok. Forgive me. I am just getting the hang of this.
I went with Tumblr because it was free and beautiful and simple.
I hope to post a lot of the photos I pin on Pinterest as that is such a wonderful resource for inspiration. It would be great if Pinterest would do a little widget thing so my pins show up here. Not sure when that will happen though.
My Dad plastering. We lived in a house on reactive clay soil. This meant the walls were ALWAYS cracking. The most emotive smell to me is the smell of that grey hard plaster. Love it. However, I do freak out if I see a crack in our walls!!
