Thu 13th..

Thursday 13th
The painters are here, and look like they will be for some time.

The carpenters came back and, in the living room, installed new skirting-boards (aka base-board in the US) which match the skirting board on the new fireplace. It is a little taller than the old one, and looks great.
They also installed more cornice (aka crown-molding) above the cabinets and around the wall/ceiling boundary. AND!! The corbal which tarts up the corner cabinet has been installed too! Cool.

We also bought new lighting for the living room. It is all new-fangled cable lights. They will run about 2" below the four pairs of beams that cross the living room. We bought them from Tech Lighting. Is cool because we can tilt and pivot them in any direction. We'll have 4 fixtures per pair of beams (for a total of 16 fixtures). Hopefully it will arrive in 10 or so days.

Friday 14th:
For the cabinets with corbals, the guys are installing the beadboard between the base cabinet and the wall cabinet, to make the look more like a standalone. (not sure what beadboard is called in England or Aus, but it is defined Beadboard is a type of paneling that can be used in many parts of your home and for many purposes. It is characterized by a series of thin raised strips, or beads that flow along each panel. A very popular wall paneling in the 1920s, it was originally made out of scraps of wood and left unfinished, painted or stained.')

Having a lot of difficulty choosing paint colours for the kitchen. Argh!