Sunday

What lovely weather we are having! Great if you have naff-all to do - not so great if you want to run or work on the house!!

Yesterday - was a day we didn't have anything to do - but I thought I'd tidy up the back porch before we went into the garden!  This led to pulling up the carpet tiles to expose the victorian black and white tiles underneath.  We knew they were there but some are damaged so thought it would be better to leave them covered.  However, now we have more time I should be able to repair or replace some of them.

Here you can see the awful carpet tiles which were on top of the tiles..

Carpet tiles up - cleaning was rather difficult - needs properly scrubbing - and some of the tiles are crumbling...

Then we made an awesome discovery - the tiles continued into the house....

So - we made the decision to pull all the carpet up in this section of the house - including on the three stairs....so it went from looking like this:

To looking this this:

THEN - we decided to see what was underneath the carpet at the other end of the hall - and ended up doing this:

You can see in the pic above that there used to be a runner down the middle - also a floorboard was replaced with something modern and bright - and at the end near the stairs - there are just big ugly boards down - so we have some work ahead of us to get this looking good!!

So - our day doing naff-all in the sun - didn't really turn out that way!!  We did end up in the sun later on and had a bit of a bbq!!