I have painted one wall black in my teenage sons room. Is black going to work in such a small room I hear you ask? It was a nail-biting experience for me but it’s done and the world is still spinning so I think the black wall is here to stay! Here is… Continue reading Black and White
It is time to start ripping up another room and this one is going to be our teenage sons bedroom. Here’s the rather horrible before shots of the room It’s the smallest bedroom and optimistically we had thought we could rip out and redo this room in no time at all…but no. We have very rotten… Continue reading Here we go again!
Well Chelsea’s bedroom is done and we moved everything in on the weekend, Dan and I are worn out but it was worth it to see the look on her face when she saw her new bedroom! Here are some shots of the room before we started, it was the Master bedroom before we did the old… Continue reading Chelseas Bedroom, Before And After Pictures!
The floors in Chelsea’s bedroom have been sanded and sealed so now it’s a waiting game. I could only take pictures from the doorway! It is a 72 hour wait before we can put any furniture on the floors so we will have a busy weekend ahead of us. I will be able to go… Continue reading From Ceiling to Floor
Dancing on the ceiling? Well not exactly in fact we had some issues in Chelsea’s bedroom with the damaged plaster center piece almost falling out! We decided to replace the entire thing but had a few weeks to wait because it had to be custom-made due to nothing we found was big enough to fit! Thanks to Bungalow… Continue reading Dancing on the Ceiling!
Chelsea my nine-year old and I have been having fun at the hardware store looking at color charts, we spent an exciting hour deciding on a colour scheme for her bedroom, the men in the family were not so excited and even huffed and puffed a few times as we changed our minds a few hundred times. The young… Continue reading Colour Love
This morning when my dear husband came to wake me up I laughed at him and said what are you doing? (This is not going anywhere dodgy I swear!) It’s Saturday I declared! Poor man I thought, here he is all dressed for work! No it’s Friday he assures me. No no, I say, it’s Saturday!… Continue reading Is it Friday?
It is now February and the summer holidays are over and the kids are back at school, so that means I can start ripping apart another room! But before I do, here are some before shots. Chelsea our nine-year old was moved into this room about 3 months ago as we did a swap around in… Continue reading First Kids Bedroom Makeover!
I have inherited some old paintings and family portraits which have no value except to our family but I feel a sense of responsibility to keep them hanging in the same house they have been in for 100 years, so I have decided to create another picture gallery in our Master bedroom. Some pictures are very large… Continue reading Almost Picture Perfect
We are now back from our holiday and are feeling much refreshed and in fact we have already broken out the tools and paint brushes! (yes, we are coming to the realisation we are addicted to D.I.Y!). Storage is a real problem for us and as avid readers and the owners of a shamefully large movie collection we were in… Continue reading Office Shelves
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