A productive weekend

After almost two years of living here, we finally got around to getting a sofa!! Any one who has visited us will know that we have been making do with two chairs in the lounge and the plentiful floor space we have.

Having visited friends in Uganda and seen their lovely homely houses (with sofa's) I told Rich that he had two weeks to get us a sofa (nothing like a demanding, nagging, pregnant wife!!).

Within two days he had ordered and collected one of our Island's famous string sofa's. Sadly these sofa's are not famous for good reasons but because they are generally extremely uncomfortable. With a lack of any other better options however, we bought a big mattress to pad it out a bit and now we finally have a decent-ish seating option for our guests :)

Not only did Rich get me a sofa for inside, but we decided to re-vamp the porch way just outside our front door. For the past year it has been BRIGHT pink and basically a dumping ground for bikes, shoes and other debris. We decided that if it were a less 'hot' colour we might be more likely to use the porch to sit outside and read/have a cup of tea/do quiet times and just generally chill out. So we painted it white, Rich built a bench for us to slob out on and I bought some pretty cushions and now it looks lovely! Perfect for morning or afternoon tea.

No DFS here. We had to put it all together ourselves. Here I am cutting the mattress down so it was the perfect size using a saw. There are some things that would just never happen in the UK!!

The string sofa with the mattress all cut to size and temporarily covered until I can get something a bit plainer, sometimes described as a little bit more 'mzungu' than African!

Our little outside chill out corner. Again just waiting for the fabric to cover the mattress, but doesn't it just invite you to sit, have a cuppa and put your feet up?!?!