Ten weeks later

Ten weeks ago today two new settees arrived at Strickley. Despite my best efforts at measuring, they refused to slim down enough to get through the door from the hall to the sitting room. Looking back at earlier posts you'll see the simple solution we came up with - replace the back window with a door. Work was held up as our builder battled the elements on other jobs, but eventually the destruction, and them construction began (see photos in earlier posts). But that was just the end of part one of the project. In 1997 we had the house rewired - a mammoth undertaking that involved chipping away at walls and chasing in cables. Intending to redecorate later we just painted over the bare plaster and more or less forgot about it. So while the room was almost empty with the remaining furniture sheeted up, we repapered the missing bits (nothing glamorous, just woodchip) and painted everything. The final touch was steam cleaning the parquet floor and polishing.

Then yesterday, just before noon, Henry and James carried the settees round to the back and through the door. Thankfully, they went through with ease.

So all we have to do now is to replace all the stuff that we moved out of the way (23 pictures for instance).