More indoors picture stuff

I went to check on the new part for the Savannah’s cooling system yesterday as I thought it wasn’t quite the same as the part it’s replacing and I was right. Its makers have changed the design slightly, presumably so as not to infringe Rotax’s patent or registered design, and although it will fit, installing it won’t be totally straightforward. The reason is that the configuration of the pipework has been changed and possibly the diameter of one of the pipes is different, so I shall have to work out how to hook the water pipes up to it.

So I couldn’t do anything – that’ll be for the coming week – and as rain was forecast for later in the afternoon, which eventually materialised, I thought I’d use my time by printing off and hanging pictures in the dining area of my living room.

I have a large Epson A3 printer from when I did my house’s design which means that I can print off images up to 40 x 30 cm in size, either landscape or portrait. There are several sites on the internet from where you can download very high quality copyright and royalty-free photographs of almost any subject you can think of, so my idea is instead of buying pictures for the walls of my house, to print off images that I like, frame them and hang them where I want them to be.

I used white wooden frames in my bedrooms but for this area of the living room at least, I’ve used black. Each frame comes with what’s called a ‘passepartout’, which is the white card that fits in front of the image to give it a white border inside the frame, but they all have to be marked out and carefully cut to size using a scalpel and straight-edge and this is what takes the time. I ended up hanging nine prints and am very happy with the results. The choice of image, though, is a very personal thing and my choice might not be to the taste of everyone. What do you think?

Everything in the above images except the pictures I brought with me from England and the dining space I designed with dimensions to accept the table, chairs and cabinets. The table and chairs were never used in my old house at Plazac because the table was too big so this is the first time for over 12 years that I have a proper dining area that meets my needs. And I also rather like the way it looks 😉