The Wedding Dress and The Lounge
Upon getting up today Marielle and I evaluated my suits. My tailor in Bombay (Aziz!) recently sent across two that I hadn't worn yet, and the thought occurred to us that perhaps I should wear a suit instead of a tux to the wedding. In the end we decided to continue with the tux as well - not tailor made, however I did have it altered while crossing the North Atlantic aboard The Queen Mary 2 in October 2005.
So today we wandered about Hoxton, looking at what various designer and dress shops had to offer.
Marielle has decided to purchase an evening gown, eschewing a formal wedding dress. She's frugal as well (one of the reasons we get along so well), and decided that splashing out for a dress she's only wear once just wasn't worth the hassle.
I applaud her decision, and it does make this entire exercise easier as she no longer has to shop only at wedding boutiques.
On the home front we're currently engaged in planning how to better utilise the flat for the two of us. First room on the agenda is the ground floor lounge.
It's rather large, and pretty much empty at this point. We visited a furniture shop and are leaning towards reconfiguring the room along these lines
The lounge is roughly ten by twenty feet, and has a doorway to the back garden. We're looking to almost subdivide this room, and are planning to purchase two identical couches that we'll place back to back. The dark black line in the middle is a screen we'll put in between the two couches. This will allow one of us to use the Macs while the other watches TV, for example.
The two circles are ceiling fans I installed when I first gutted and renovated this flat after acquiring it back in 2001 (side note: the only reason I got this place at a 40% discount to market price at the time was the fact that it needed a lot of sweat equity...)
We're going to do all our design work on the Macs before actually purchasing and installing furniture or other items. That's precisely how I did the planning for the initial renovation, and it will help us to avoid expensive mistakes.
Right now the walls of the lounge are covered with plenty of art, and we're not sure how reusing this space will impact that. I suspect some of the larger pieces will have to go upstairs, but that's ok as there is still a lot of empty white walls left up on the second floor.
So today we wandered about Hoxton, looking at what various designer and dress shops had to offer.
Marielle has decided to purchase an evening gown, eschewing a formal wedding dress. She's frugal as well (one of the reasons we get along so well), and decided that splashing out for a dress she's only wear once just wasn't worth the hassle.
I applaud her decision, and it does make this entire exercise easier as she no longer has to shop only at wedding boutiques.
On the home front we're currently engaged in planning how to better utilise the flat for the two of us. First room on the agenda is the ground floor lounge.
It's rather large, and pretty much empty at this point. We visited a furniture shop and are leaning towards reconfiguring the room along these lines
The lounge is roughly ten by twenty feet, and has a doorway to the back garden. We're looking to almost subdivide this room, and are planning to purchase two identical couches that we'll place back to back. The dark black line in the middle is a screen we'll put in between the two couches. This will allow one of us to use the Macs while the other watches TV, for example.
The two circles are ceiling fans I installed when I first gutted and renovated this flat after acquiring it back in 2001 (side note: the only reason I got this place at a 40% discount to market price at the time was the fact that it needed a lot of sweat equity...)
We're going to do all our design work on the Macs before actually purchasing and installing furniture or other items. That's precisely how I did the planning for the initial renovation, and it will help us to avoid expensive mistakes.
Right now the walls of the lounge are covered with plenty of art, and we're not sure how reusing this space will impact that. I suspect some of the larger pieces will have to go upstairs, but that's ok as there is still a lot of empty white walls left up on the second floor.
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