Jenny jenny, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

... as long as you are asking about the front garden quite well thank you. I think it is best to show it in images.

How not to wallpaper a bedroom

So this weekend was due to be the weekend we finished our second bedroom (bar woodwork) by painting the ceiling, painting two walls and then wallpapering thee other two walls. This is an example of budget constraints helping the artistic process, we had skimmed two walls in this room but we had left two walls as they still had flaky paint on them. We had planned to remove the paint and then paint the walls but it was becoming increasingly obvious we would need to get these walls skimmed too. I had bought two rolls of Laura Ashley years ago because I liked it  but also because they were four pounds instead of thirty six. I suggested using them on the walls which needed skimming. Sam was a classic Yorkshire man and agreed immediately without more than a cursory glance at the wallpaper.

So thinking we might need more wallpaper, the plan was to use my batch end on one wall and then if there wasn't enough we would use new stuff on the other wall, total cost of new rolls fifty pounds. Still quite expensive but better than skimming. So having checked with our local Laura Ashley that they had it in stock we set if to pick it up along with the matching paint. Unfortunately they did not have any so we ordered some (which will take up to two weeks to arrive), that put a slight downer on it but we thought we would go ahead anyway and do one wall. So we did the painting on the Saturday and then woke up to glorious sunshine on the Sunday. All thoughts of staying inside went out the window (to sit in the sun) and we decided to do the front garden instead.... (To be continued)

The offending wallpaper:
http://www.lauraashley.com/wallpaper/kimono-willow-floral-wallpaper/invt/3443081