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Liz suggested I trim the wine colored carpet in the coffee room - which I did in the above photo. I also painted the floor grey with left over paint from the toilet walls.

With the two tiny paintbrushes in the set I purchased when shopping with Liz recently, I was able to 'tidy up' the painting in the toilet, where the grey met the gloss-white. The floor was then ready to be laid. As I was having one of those days where I bumped into things, dropped and spilled things - I postponed the floor laying and ripped off the bathroom door draught bar - as you can see it's a horrid thing, impossible to clean, and I don't want it - so I took it off when washing and sanding the door down ready to paint.

One coat on, I changed project and decided to lay the toilet flooring. The first step was ripping off the former lino covering, which no longer fitted since a new toilet was installed earlier this year. Liz and I had bought a piece of lino a few weeks back and she had picked it up for me - I was just waiting on the right day to lay it and it came in October.

I had a proper stanley knife at my side and set to work, shoving one corner into situ and knifing along bits til it fitted the corners and round the loo. I was not exact enough for perfection, but it was as good a fit as the former lino had been on the old loo.

I had a few scraps spare, so decided to recut around the toilet and insert the spare bits under the almost-ok hole round the loo - which gives a better finish to the job, though I may have to glue the smaller pieces down if they move. Back to the bathroom door, needing a second/top coat of gloss...

It is done - as of  Mid-October. Now for those bathroom guys at Windsor to come do up the rest of the room for us.....

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In the last post, I mentioned repainting the front door and having got the paint and brushes bought. The final photo illustrated the door once it had been wiped and sanded. The paint was supposedly dry in 2-4 hours, and after the sanding I painted the bottom coat, left it to dry, and looked at it.

I definitely prefer the purple door to Dad's conventional choices - his last choice being white, prior to that, seen thru flaked off paint, red. Previous colors I recall include green, yellow and blue - all basic everyday colors - nothing exciting!

I went to the store thinking probably purple - possibly peach or pink. The options in the better known brands not being any more adventurous that Dad's choices, I opted on selecting a color and having the paint mixed for me - so I could get the shade I desired - PURPLE! Above you can see that I decided to paint the knocker and letter flap as well.

After 3 or so hours, it felt dry enough to repaint - and I had left a message for Liz to let her know the toilet flooring had arrived in the store, but thought she was out, so got on with coat number 2 - and left a spoon in the mail box to ensure it didn't stick. Liz called me back a few minutes after I finished painting the top coat to say she could take me to collect the flooring - alas, I could not leave the house with the front door wide open because of wet paint.

Thankfully, Liz had time to grab the receipt and then fetch the roll of flooring for me - the toilet will be my next project! So far, I have painted the walls, painted the glass surrounds/door, and this morning finished glossing the window and started the toilet roll holder. I therefore only need top coat the toilet roll holder and patch up any gloss splashes on the wall before laying our new floor! Today I also sanded and painted the exterior surround of the front door, so other than one more coat of paint on that, the front door is also finished! That will leave me with painting the bathroom door and waiting on workmen to give us a brand new bathroom! The bathroom renovations is a little beyond my skills, even the ones I could possibly learn.

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My next task was on the arrival of the free-to-collector leather sofa. It only cost the delivery fee so was a total bargain at £40, as despite being worn - it is far from being worn out! I had to decide which way to lay the coffee lounge out....

I ended up going for the sofa across the east wall - though I am still toying with changing it to the north....

As depicted above, my tablecloth was getting worn out. I recently picked up a new 'washable/disposable table covering' - aka plastic tablecloth - for use on the kitchen worktable. The new cover blends in better with the kitchen color scheme.

Yes, I am still playing lava lamp with my washing up liquid! My windowsill is far from clear however - due to the recent placement of semi-ripe tomatoes. I have a few dozen in various shades of ripeness from first orange tinge to almost ready to eat lined up to ripen.

My next project, done at the close of September was the front door. Liz had driven me to B&Q on the Saturday, where I purchased a pot of 'Purple Storm' Valspar paint. Two days later, we finally tracked down black bristled paint brushes at Tesco - Sainsburys and B&Q only having those ghastly floppy soft white bristled brushes that I cannot imagine using successfully and Asda having run out.