It’s looking very smart, well done.
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Snap, suspended toilet. Snap suspended rectangular sink. Not snap, lino rather than wood. Not snap white shower tray, not grey. Not snap, no bath.
Not quite finished as waiting for rest of shower screen and repainting woodwork.
But compared to where we came from I am happy!
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I’d wondered about that - I’ve used tumbled travertine, ever since discovering the (in retrospect fairly obvious) dangers of a polished marble bathroom floor that I laid in 1987.
We’ve got a ver similarly shaped, suspended toilet in one of our bathrooms, which I thought at the time was a good idea, but have since had probs with condensation running down the outside of it and slightly staining the tiles underneath
Oh….I now can’t unsee the old bathroom ! 
…The new one is lovely!
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Yes a travertine floor could be quite perilous!…
Maybe your loo flushing water needs a bit of a preheat to prevent the condensation.
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Don’t worry it’ll be ok when you get the Lino fitted and the walls papered 
Looks great 
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Ooo…I love wallpaper and old fashioned lino!
This is our kitchen in The Hague and it has…. wallpaper and Marmolium lino flooring:)
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I love your wallpaper and I love your Le Crueset and I love your shelves and I love your hanging rail and I love your worktops.
Methinks I love your kitchen !
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Aw many thanks….yes I loved that kitchen and it was a joy to cook in but a bit cramped and max 2 persons could be cooking.
We inherited our current kitchen and next year…..I’m gonna rip the crap out of it and refurb it 
It needs stainless steel worktops, new induction hop and much wider worktops…
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Tumbled travertine is rather nice underfoot - not slipperily lethal like wet marble.
Are you suggesting hot flushes?
Probably too old and certainly the wrong sex…
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très drôle!
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I’m the proof that you’re wrong on that one 
Not the male menopause!
Medically induced manopause, hot flushes, mood swings , the works 
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Ok…it’s Monday (yet again!)…
It’s raining and so good progress on the bathroom.
Just the painting to finish and maybe some other things too.
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Two hours of Badminton this morning followed by work on the house.
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Hung my wife’s latest solo expo this morning in just under an hour. Don’t get the opportunity to hang shows very often these days, but it’s always a pleasure, just looking, arranging, spacing and hanging - very tranquil and methodical. No stress.
Incidentally, was working in cms and ins - metric for the tape measure, imperial for my four foot straightedge.
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That is no cheat.
If Sika or Stix-All [a Sika company] had been invented back-along, it would have been used. No filling nail head holes, down on hands 'n knees, before painting. In fact, using modern adhesives, paint them all then just squidge some glop, give it a firm kick and Voila! yer skirting for yr, Bishop!
I’ve just patch d a couple of 1m sq gaps where tiles used to be with bathroom grade plasterboard. A few worm-cast shapes of Stix-All, a couple of lost head nails to stop them sliding - Voila! yer plasterboard for ya, Reverend!
I bow the knee to the deluxe of the fit-out. Last basin I bought was €5 on lbc but inc flexi tails and click-clack waste!
My gallery [summerhouse as was] is progessing VERY SLOWLY. I have one wall with pictures up. But age sloweth the leetle grey cells .. [after H. Poirot]
To get a line where all the bottom edges of the frames line up [the trad hang] butt all the frames up, touching side by side. Run a line across the bottom, the width of the wall. There’s the line your aiming for.
I am using pic rail, hooks and braided nylon fishing line. I know you don’t like the shadows of cords but that method does allow for changing the hang without banging any more holes in the walls - of which I made a sacking offence for the lodgers in my house in Bristol.
But the big job now is flooring. I’ve always said that a place looks a building site, however sprauncy it looks above floor level, if the final flooring is not installed.
The old vinyls is a mess. Stained 'n 'orrible. I have come up with a ‘chapuza’ = a Spanish bodge with a good outcome. 5m x 800mm rolls of self-stick vinyl. Very cheap on TEMU.
I always try to use an eye-level centre hang, so that the work’s at the best height for viewing.
Today’s was with nylon and adjustable hooks which is super-fast and not too visually intrusive, but if I can (and always at chez nous) I use D-rings and hooks , which is the usual museum technique and then the painting is flat against the wall.
That said, I’ve got a 5’ wide C19th mirror with a beautiful tain, that is waiting for a new, deep frame that I plan to make from pine moulding then gesso and silver leaf on top. I want to hang it (from a hidden chain) so it’ll be at a slight angle and reflect the Lot beyond the vines on our lowest terrace. Because it’s humid with being by the river, I hope the silver leaf will tarnish quickly and I’ll have a lovely old mirror with a rich, slightly softened reflection (in modern mirrors the glass is usually too thin for that).
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