As promised, pictures of the bathroom with the new floor. I laid that myself and am very chuffed with the outcome. Can't believe how much difference it makes. Much better than smelly worn out old carpet.
So, now onto spring cleaning our bedroom.
To be honest, there isn't a lot to do in here so this should be a quick week. We have a bit too much furniture in here and sometimes the clothes and reading material can build up a bit on the chests of drawers and beside tables, but generally it is pretty clean. It's not to my taste decor-wise - that coral/peach colour was the former owner's preference - but this room won't be decorated for another couple of years and only after the en-suite has been upgraded first.
So the cleaning list:
- take anything that doesn’t belong in the bedroom and put it in the correct location
- dust ceiling, corners, and upper and lower moldings
- dust/hoover the pelmets
- dust baseboards
- dust and polish chests of drawers
- dust edges of wall hangings, mirrors, and pictures
- dust lamps
- clean light fixtures and light globes
- organise the clothes closet
- switch seasonal clothing and donate unneeded items
- clean and organise the bedside tables
- flip, rotate and hoover the top of the mattress
- wash pillows
- clean windows and window sills
- vacuum carpet, including edges and under furniture
- clean doors and moldings
- disinfect door knobs and light switch plates
- put up mirror and pictures
I think that will do. The majority of that won't take more than a couple of hours once I crack into it, which is good as my end of financial year work is piling up so I'm running behind. The good weather this weekend saw indoors work abdicated for outdoors so all the cleaning is running a little behind my planned schedule.
We attacked a bush that had got overgrown and was causing an obstruction, hacking it right back to the floor. The top picture was taken last November, and you can see how much it encroached on the path. We still have to kill off the root and dig it out before we can plant anything else there but at least we can use the pathway now.
The ivy on the side of the barns was cut off from the bottom so the top can die off and be removed easily. Unfortunately, it has done damage to the lime mortar at the top so we will have to repoint that corner of the barns before winter.
Finally, Fleagle got her annual shave - inexpertly done by me - so she can keep cool in the heat. We had to take her to the vet to have her claws clipped as well, as she created such a massive fuss when we tried that we gave up. It took two of them to do it while she was wrapped in a towel to prevent her biting and scratching. She gets worse as she gets older!
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