The Conti Mental Shelf.

Did I mention the bedroom decorating saga?

Of course I did, we were up to the painting and papering, which thanks to the newly plastered wall actually went extremely well, very pleased with the grey and white effect and the feature wallpaper actually looks exactly how I visualised it.

The furniture got ordered and delivered and whilst the building of it was not particularly fraught…..only one missing piece from one flat pack….it was somewhat of a slow process but eventually completed.

Now usually I make my own curtains but whilst we were out on a new net curtain buying mission, my trusty side-kick wandered over to the ready-made section and discovered a perfect pair of grey curtains.

Obviously it wasn’t completely straightforward, the curtains were the ready ringed type and so a new curtain pole was required, which naturally resulted in having new holes and filling and repainting over where the old fitment was.

So on to the last stretch some new shelving, now being sneaky and wanting to save myself some unnecessary labour I had retained the brackets and supports from the previous shelving, given them a fresh coat of white paint so they were good to go, just needed new shelving….easy…peasy… yer think??

Into the local D.I.Y superstore where us oldies get discount on a Wednesday, locate the correct size conti board, having bought some a couple of years back I had remembered that they do a cutting service.

However, and this is where it all started to go downhill, I only wanted a 6inch shelf they don’t cut less than 9 inches because it doesn’t safely fit the machine!

Naturally the uncut length was far too long for my car, so had to get my son to come and get it in his big car. This worked well because I then didn’t have to do any lifting and I thought OK so a bit of sawing to do but we are still on track for Christmas, no not Christmas 2013 I do mean this year!

But guess what, whilst with my trusty electric saw, (Arthur doesn’t allow me to do much manual sawing these days, no strength left in hands and wrists) I soon whipped the shelves down to size and set about re-edging the cuts. Naturally the edging strip comes about 5mm wider than the shelf, why would they make it to fit the shelving they sell, that may be tooooo easy for the customer, so every piece had to be cut to size.

Stay tuned for  Material Girl the final Instalment!