With eight weeks left to get the renovations in the main house at Charlotte Church's Powys country property done in time for the proposed opening date, things are getting stressful, so it's time for her to get stronger and less friendly with the builders, according to her dad James.
And during the latest episode of Charlotte Church's Dream Build on Wednesday, October 19 the Welsh singer-songwriter take's Dads advice and gets serious with the team in order to stand any chance of her wellbeing centre called The Dreaming being ready on time.
Charlotte bought Rhydoldog House, in the stunning Elan Valley for £1.5m with the dream of renovating the property that used to be owned by fashion icon Laura Ashley into a retreat, creating calm spaces for people to stay whilst running healing and inspirational sessions.
And the girl from Cardiff means business. She says: "These boys need to listen to me now, it takes quite a few times of me stating what I want. People keep going off like spiders and then doing their own thing a little bit and I'm a bit like, 'well, I'm sorry gents but it's getting down to it now, and I am the boss and I am paying your wages!
"This is my design, this is my vision, this is how I want things done, this is how I want it run and this is how I want the schedule to look for the next couple of weeks."
Charlotte has put so much of her life on the line with this high risk renovation project that she now feels she has to be more confident and become a real leader at this multi-layered, complex site.
James steps in to draw from his wealth of experience working on and running construction sites to advise Charlotte. He says: "She wants everybody to be her friend, and part of the family, and she hasn't learnt the fine balance between someone employed by you that have a responsibility to do their job in a certain way.
"She has to act as a boss in the working hours and then after the working hours you can be best friends, family friends and all that, but you have to have a balance. She's too relaxed, it's 'come into the kitchen and have a coffee...' it doesn't work like that."
Charlotte has found that even getting everyone together for a scheduling meeting can be a challenge, but now she feels it is time that she turned a corner and blossomed into the site boss that Rhydoldog House needs to speed up and organise that final push towards the proposed opening date deadline.
The first step in that direction is the creation of two calendars of agreed scheduled work created on huge wipeable wall calendars that people on site can look at, plus a code of conduct for the next couple of weeks because it's 'going to be mental'.
Suddenly there are six more contractors on site Charlotte has sourced to assist with the mountains of hard work left to do towards hitting the challenging deadlines.
And maybe the marker pens and wipeable calendars have helped to get the renovation journey speeding up as the episode ends with the reveal of another bedroom completed - The Mushroom room.
Charlotte says: "This space is a lot more masculine in its feel, there's a lot of rustic materials, it isn't so floaty and soft, with the fabrics we've got, there's a lot of hemp and some really big dark furniture."
The paint team, married couple Chris and Ciaran, are working on creating a mottled effect on the walls of The Mushroom, using two tones of natural colours within their paint tray and the result is a surface that brings visual warmth and tactile texture to the space.
The room is dressed with a mix of warm-toned natural textures, wooden and leather-look furniture, oodles of plants and a bed cocooned by three walls of fabric that creates a tranquil space within an idyllic setting.
Charlotte says: "The bathroom I want to feel like a bit of a forest. We've got a big, beautiful tadelakt shower with a massive pane of glass, loads of plants in there and hopefully a mycelium sculpture coming from the ceiling."
While some people battle to eliminate fungi from their bathrooms, Charlotte is dreaming about adding some into this space, via a root-like structure of a fungus that consists of a mass of branching and hypha, but she can also see the irony of this and wonders if the sculpture is a step too far down the mushroom road?
She says: "Most people don't want fungus to grow in their bathrooms, but they're fools! No, they're not fools! But it's those sort of things I realise I do have to be practical.
"It's going to be heavily used, hopefully, and so there are practicalities in terms of upkeep and maintenance that I need to keep in mind. And so therefore, potentially, growing a mycelial network on the ceiling is a little extreme!"
Surely the building team are over-joyed that this interior design idea of growing fungus in The Mushroom's bathroom didn't make it onto the kitchen scheduling calendar... yet?
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