Très chic!

This weather is now beyond a joke. At a time when we’re usually getting warm, dry days with the temperature climbing through the 20s, instead we’ve got cold, wet ones often starting with mist, like this morning. So clearly not a day for working outside, meaning that putting up the outside lights on the house, repairing the floor of my large trailer and cutting the grass, which is now thick and knee-deep, would have to wait.

But I had things that I could do indoors, so the day would not be completely wasted. I had to go around the house’s interior walls with some fine filler where the plasterers had left nail holes showing and some rough bits, mainly around the corners of the window frames, and there was also a large patch needed where the electrician had initially positioned the heating thermostat too high and had then lowered it. It should really have been a job for the builder but what the heck.

I then moved onto another job that I couldn’t do until I knew exactly what colour the ‘Crépi’ would turn out to be. The satellite dish that I sourced from the UK because its design is much better than the comparable French versions that are available came in the usual matt black, or anthracite if you’re fussy. That didn’t matter when I fitted a similar one to my old house in Plazac but I didn’t much like the idea of hanging such an eyesore on my new one. So I decided to paint it to match.

I bought the paint that I needed the last time I was at Leroy Merlin – white undercoat and a fetching shade of ‘melon’ that looks like a dead ringer for the colour that my walls have now become. So I took everything I needed into the house’s living room, including two large sheets of packing cardboard that I laid on the floor, and did the job this afternoon. And it turned out pretty well as the following photographs show.

Très chic – very stylish. So now as soon as the weather allows I can put up the five wall-mounted outdoor lights and the satellite dish all at the same time, making the outside nearly complete. I’ve also now ordered a ceiling mounted light for the porch and with that up that should be it for me for a while.

As I mentioned at the time, the gang that applied the ‘Crépi’ annoyingly cut and shortened the satellite cable without telling me, so I just hope that the electrician left enough in the roof space to compensate. I should soon be able to find out … 😐