Just in time
16 Oct 2021 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneThe dog we were sitting (and the cats) got a little more relaxed and settled each day. Wednesday she eventually settled in and Wednesday night we were allowed to sleep normally-ish, and Thursday evening they came to pick her up just as she had relaxed enough to play with her toys and lie on the sofa letting me scratch her belly. She's a sweet little dog and she was a delight, but it was quite a relief to relax in her absence. The bunnies did new binkies, Tristana zoomed all around the house, and both the cats gorged themselves after a few days of eating sparingly.
The curtains we ordered finally arrived too, and we put up some trim that had been lying around waiting to be reinstalled for a year (I still have to sand and paint it, along with all the windows which are in a truly atrocious state). We wanted a retro-looking print that would harmonize with the architectural style of our 1950 early modernist house, and current trends in window treatments were really working against us! I must've spent at least eighty hours searching for some in the last year or so. (We were willing to splurge a LITTLE on the curtains, but not to the extent of ordering Marimekko fabric. We could have found ten Marimekko fabrics we liked enough for curtains without pausing for breath, but they cost 40€/m and up and our two livingroom windows took almost 8 meters).
This fabric is Lilleville, from Eurokangas, and was unbranded (weird but whatever). I also removed the old plastic hardware from these drawerfronts, spackled the holes, covered the surfaces with contact paper and gave them some new hardware (from Ikea, because I splurged on more expensive exact replicas in the kitchen instead of Ikea retro hardware which would've been brushed nickel finish instead of shiny chrome, and I later regretted it and vowed to henceforward just use the Ikea). I've also bought a hairdryer specifically for smoothing the corners of the contact paper - we've never owned one and I haven't heat-styled my hair in twenty years. I still have another identical little chest of drawers to do that lives at the desk in Wax's library office.
We called the chimney sweep a week ago Friday, but he didn't call back all week, so we have to try again. It was so busy all week that I forgot, though. It's getting dark earlier now, so we have to hurry!
The curtains we ordered finally arrived too, and we put up some trim that had been lying around waiting to be reinstalled for a year (I still have to sand and paint it, along with all the windows which are in a truly atrocious state). We wanted a retro-looking print that would harmonize with the architectural style of our 1950 early modernist house, and current trends in window treatments were really working against us! I must've spent at least eighty hours searching for some in the last year or so. (We were willing to splurge a LITTLE on the curtains, but not to the extent of ordering Marimekko fabric. We could have found ten Marimekko fabrics we liked enough for curtains without pausing for breath, but they cost 40€/m and up and our two livingroom windows took almost 8 meters).
This fabric is Lilleville, from Eurokangas, and was unbranded (weird but whatever). I also removed the old plastic hardware from these drawerfronts, spackled the holes, covered the surfaces with contact paper and gave them some new hardware (from Ikea, because I splurged on more expensive exact replicas in the kitchen instead of Ikea retro hardware which would've been brushed nickel finish instead of shiny chrome, and I later regretted it and vowed to henceforward just use the Ikea). I've also bought a hairdryer specifically for smoothing the corners of the contact paper - we've never owned one and I haven't heat-styled my hair in twenty years. I still have another identical little chest of drawers to do that lives at the desk in Wax's library office.
We called the chimney sweep a week ago Friday, but he didn't call back all week, so we have to try again. It was so busy all week that I forgot, though. It's getting dark earlier now, so we have to hurry!
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Date: 17 Oct 2021 12:15 am (UTC)