Sorry for the lack of musings : (

I've been up to my eyes in renovations, if you catch my drift. The joiner & crew finally left a week today. So the restructuring of the upstairs area is now complete.

Walls still have to be painted, but there's a mass of small holes that need to be filled first.

I'm pernickety!

And then there's all the workmen's guddle to be disposed of - all that stuff they've forgotten to take away: dried up brushes, lengths of coving, rolls of insulation, unused pieces of laminate flooring, a hidden saw, numerous inconsequential nails & screws etc. All those things that were casually dropped and abandoned.

And there's the hotch-potch pile of various lengths & thicknesses of wood that will be 'handy for my woodburner', once I've found time to chop them into log-lengths!

Can't wait to get all the walls painted so that I can complete the obliteration of TAUPE!

There will still be neutrals - like the area of off-white panelling as you come in the front door. Well, something had to be done to that age-oranged, double-height, varnished pine panelling. I mean, I like a 70s vibe but all that orange woodiness dulled the eye and felt claustrophobic, man! Painting it in off-white 'Timeless', has totally transformed it.

A couple of days ago, I decorated the new spare bedroom. I was slightly concerned about the grey & pink wallpaper I'd already bought for it. But I'm a sucker for a floral wallpaper in a bedroom. Oh, I have tried to like geometrics. I even spent an hour or two scrolling through examples online. But as I teetered on the brink of being tempted by one design, I found at least half a dozen florals that I much preferred.

I've never had a pink bedroom - or even a pink spare bedroom! When I picture it, I see a candlewick bedspread & flannelette sheets with a background whiff of Yardley's lily-of-the-valley.

My wallpaper is described online as 'blush pink'. But when it arrived it was not a demure blush, as I had imagined, but more like a full beamer! I flirted with teaming it with grey. But, as I've mentioned before, I've difficulty with greys. I looked at all shades of grey. Probably 50. But they were either too green, too blue, too dark, too....well, just too many problems!

So I opted for sugar-almond mauve-pink. The kinda pink that no-one else would touch with a barge pole!

I find myself sneaking into the bedroom, as if to catch it unawares - but it's still there. PINK!

Sometimes I imagine it has a faint Scandi look - what with the wooden floor, plank headboard & sheepskin cushions. But, honestly, it's not that subtle. It's undeniably blatantly-bold-PINK!

But one thing's for sure, it's not grey. Or taupe.

Down with dullness. Long live colour!

: )