In which we get the sitting room into shape and start on our bedroom...

At last, we have cleaned the sitting room, removed the dust sheets and scattered furniture about.   It's beginning to look civilised.   We have taken the loose covers off the old settee that was left in the house.  Peter isn't keen on it, but it's really comfortable so I'm rooting for it.  The covers have been dropped off at a dry cleaners to be appraised for cleaning and dyeing.   We shall see if it's possible and how they turn out.    We need to find some rugs now.

I've been round the house in Norwich collecting up books that I've never got round to reading or have only got as far as the first chapter, and have taken them down to Southwold and started filling up the shelves in the sitting room. 

One end of the sitting room

The other end

We were going to start putting up the new curtain tracks this weekend, but we discovered that none of the packages contained the right number of fixings!   Most annoying and odd for good old John Lewis.   We called in on our way back to Norwich and they gave us the extra pieces we needed.   We may get some of them up tomorrow and that will be an incentive to start on the curtains.

The Liss lights

Instead of putting up the curtain tracks, we started decorating our bedroom.   We managed to paint the insides of the fitted wardrobes (unnecessary in my opinion!) and put two coats on the ceiling.  Quite good progress!   Tomorrow we go again and see what the paint colour we chose looks like on the walls - last thing today we painted some patches on three different walls to get the effect.  

Peter did all sorts of running repairs and improvements to the front door fittings and put up the lampshades in the sitting room.   These lampshades are original 70s shades and were given to us by our friends Barrie and Marion Liss when they moved from Stafford to France.   We had one in the Barbican, left by the previous occupant, and were delighted that the Stafford Lisses bequeathed theirs to us.  

And lastly, we purchased a tree at Darsham Nursery.  A Malus John Downie, which will have great blossom in the spring and fruit in the autumn.   https://goo.gl/images/UCX2uL