Hallway

I’ve mentioned this in passing a couple of times this week, so figured I’d really best get round to explaining.

Up until now, the hallway in our house has been in need of decoration. It was a grungy sludge-green with marks of damp (following on from the pre-purchase flood, mainly- which I realise now I’ve never actually properly written about on here) which made the entire room seem really dark.

It’s always been due for redecoration, but because of other plans it’s been delayed. These other plans included moving the radiator, and installing a new vertical rad instead of the existing horizontal one as we need the wall-space for bookshelves’n’shit. The radiator finally got moved/installed a couple of weeks back, so it became time to do the redecoration.

Obviously the plan was to do the entire thing last weekend, but because of the bell-end neighbours antics Saturday got written off on the decoration front, so it all got a bit delayed. All the same, Sunday was spent getting it all sorted out, and painting the entire room with two coats of white to cover over the grotendous green. All told, it was pretty successful, and just the white made the entire room seem about four times larger than it had been previously.

Then this week we’ve spent two evenings putting on the final colour (one coat per evening) which is a pale yellow. While not my initial choice- I was aiming for something far brighter, and would’ve been wrong- it seems to really work well, so that’s good. And then we’ve also moved in the bookcases, and managed to get all my books onto the shelves, so it looks really good in the hallway now.

Even better, I’ve got all my books back (well, with the exception of the two box-loads that’ll be going to one of the local charity shops) so I’m going to spend the next few weeks re-reading some old friends, some of which I haven’t even seen since November last year. But that’s a post for another time.

It’s another job off the list, and it’s been done by the end of the year, which was always the target. So yes, overall we’re pretty happy with the entire thing.