Renovation: the entrance, part 2

So there we were with permission, paint and by a stroke of luck, the main general assistant had a little bit of time and manpower up his sleeve.  I smiled very sweetly, fed the lovely general assistants good coffee and cupcakes (cupcake diplomacy, remember? gingerbread diplomacy works too, and indeed all sorts of diplomacy of similar kind - even if they weren't charming blokes, we'd still be nice to the general assistants!)  and said, do you think the background painting could be done by, oh, the school holidays, so we can do our fussy next bits, which we wouldn't DREAM of asking you to do?  Pretty please?

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They ain't stupid.  They saw right through that.  But they're also good blokes.  And there was a little flexibility.

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Well, that looks better already!

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Yup, the old paintwork on the doors had certainly lost its mojo.  The kids liked the purple, as we had hoped, and we did too.  We'd picked it to sorta tone with the library doors, and with the purple/chartreuse net curtains.

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It wasn't a one-day job, and we had to juggle where kids put their bags and how they lined up to come into the library, but that was no trouble.  Not when you're seeing change like this.

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Remember that view from the quadrangle?  Reckon you could work out that there's SOMETHING going on over there now?

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Ah, chartreuse.  A favourite colour.  The paint colours used here are both Dulux ones, but were used in bases from other paint companies, so they might look a tad different to the chips.  The purple is Regalia, and the chartreuse, Golden Passionfruit.

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We like.  So did the kids.  And the holidays were one day away.  Hurrah for the general assistants!

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What do you think?  Bit of a transformation already?  Comments welcome!

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Come back tomorrow for what happened in the holidays.

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Cheers, Ruth.

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