At last, an update!

I've been a terribly bad blogger of late, reading posted updates of all your blogs and telling myself I'll post comments later and of course later didn't come.   I'm trying to catch up and will do so eventually but suffice to say you're all doing great things and I will comment - honest!

I've not been idle in the mini department.   My problem lay in trying to decorate a space at the top of Netherton - definitely the wrong way to do it as I had to work on the room below first in order to get the lighting fitted underneath the flooring above.   What a palaver that was in terms of waiting on deliveries, waiting on inspiration and making time to deal with it all, especially as I was itching to see a result.

Do you remember me showing you this?  

It sits below the Upper Hall, like this -

As you can see, the top space is slightly bigger than the one underneath so I decided to create a family bathroom in the lower space and had great ideas for the space above.    It was the flooring on this space above that was holding up proceedings as I couldn't lay it because I didn't have the lighting for the bathroom.    In order to get the lighting in place, I had to decorate the room first as it would have been a tad awkward putting paper in place with a light fitting dangling down!   Of course if I was going to paper, I had to paint and if I had to paint I would be as well fitting cornices and trim, etc.   See........a palaver!

I'm pleased to say that all that is behind me now and I can now show you the fruits of my labours - well, at least some of them.   Here is the decorated bathroom.    I have the suite but it needs a bit work and I have all the accessories to get and that will be my next project (after finishing the main Hall!) but it does at least let me get on with the rooms I started and really need to work on.

The "tiling" was purchased from Jennifers of Walsall on my trip to the York Fair in November and the lighting is by Ray Storey.   The flooring was purchased from an online seller.

You may recall, in an earlier post, I was going to do "something else" in the space above the bathroom well, that something else was to divide it into three.

This would give me a Housemaid's Closet, a Servant's Passage and "another room".

First, the Housemaid's Closet.

Here, we have the benefit of a hot water heater, all the Housemaid's necessities are to hand, cloths are drying on the little rack, there's a slop bucket under the sink, the keys to various rooms are on a nearby hook and her mop and bucket stand ready for use.   Her pinny hangs on the back of the door and there's also a clock to make sure she doesn't take too long over any job.

Moving through the door to the Servant's Corridor........

This is a very plain space providing no distractions.   Once I'd finished it I then decided some sort of surface was called for, useful for laying things on while attending to other matters so I came up with this.   A half round fold down table.

It's not really a fold down table as I couldn't work out how to deal with the bracket and at the same time enable it to move sideways in order for the flap to drop.   At the moment it's there by sheer luck and I think I'll fix it in place because how often will I be moving the thing up and down?    Never!