After several hours during the week clearing and cleaning up a messy garden my day started like this
If you are not changing the floor covering, I would colour match with that. If it has light/shade colouring, go with matching with the lightest.
Following your selection of kitchen flooring, I think you'll make just as good decision for the wall paint colour.
DEB
Morning all. How's that virus Bushie?
Just read the bits about our handymen and their tools and the makeshift storeage excuses:
availability at short notice;
get back to it;
not worth putting it away now, only have to get it out again tomorrow;
(which means something else will come up that needs more immediate attention like a car race,
or "got to go and borrow a hammer from the mate around the corner"
and "couldn't get away from him, he insisted I stay for a drink"
and comes home without the hammer).
But I'm the one with the hammering headache.
What really gets me is when a little job like re-screwing something back into place takes so much time and effort.
"Where's the key to the shed? Its not where it should be". It is. Eventually, out comes a battery operated screwdriver from the deep dark depths of the storage cupboard; "where is the phillips head screw bit?" "gotta wait till the battery recharges" (on the kitchen cupboard). "Where's the aquadhere?" "Should have a longer screw'. "Better replace all of them (6)". "Gotta go to Bunnings, wanna come?"
And all it needed was a matchstick to fill the hole, and a normal everyday hand operated screwdriver to re-screw.
But the stop off at a wholesale plant nursery on the way back from Bunnings proved to be lavender filled joy for me.
I must not mention that some holes need digging. Or the 2nd hand motorized post-hole digger ("that'll-come-in-handy-one-day-garagesale-purchase") might be seen to be required.
DEB
Like the guy in the office who had his coloured pens lined up in his top pocket,
It was a sign of importance. The more pens, the more important. And the guy with the green pen was the most important
The lavendar plants x12 of them, were on special as they were potbound. Only small ones but I paid $20 for all of them. If a couple don't make the roots teazing-out part, it will still be good.
Their silvery green leaves will look okay in my "going from cottage to bushland type" front garden, mass planted.
DEB
Had 3 quotes for the painting. A lovely German man who advertises in our local paper who is retired but still keen to pick up smaller jobs. We buy the paint, and pack the china away, he has quoted a offer I can't refuse, so we have everything packed up ready to go Thursday morning 8a.m. he said it will take him the best part of 2 days. So over the week end the furniture back in place and the new curtains up. Yesterday we took down the security screens and scrubbed them, replaced the mesh in the fly screens, cleaned all the windows on that side....
Now off to buy paint 
