jelly

The old flat now has a cleanish oven, an empty fridge and freezer, an half-repainted set of shelves and a bit less random crap sitting around the place. We couldn't work out or remember which of the strange colours half-visible underneath the uppermost coat of once-was-white-now-going-yellow we were responsible for, having presumably painted all the shelving and woodwork white at least once at some point in the last decade. I don't think there are any photographs to show it but when we first arrived most of the walls were off-yellow (or "autumn harvest" as the tin would have it) and the woodwork grey, though the most prominent layer underneath the yellowing white upper layer appeared to be a similar blue to the blue we painted on the walls though I don't think we'd have painted the shelves that colour. We did originally paint the kitchen-half of the other room a nice orange colour but only because Nicky's mum had been going through her collection of ends of tins of paint when we happened to be visiting and not yet thinking in terms of making the place acceptable to rent out.

Still to be done are the removal of all the old mouldy silicone from around the bath, its replacement and removal of various storage-space-increasing devices like shelves and cupboards which I was unable to do today due to not having brought any tools along. Technically the wardrobe and bed have to be dismantled but I'm still not convinced that the bed is able to be dismantled much (as someone glued it together when they constructed it) and doubt that the wardrobe would survive anything more than door-removal even after the extremely weak joints were strengthened during construction.