Getting life back to normal...

We have finally got all the boxes unpacked, built some new wardrobes and put things back to normal. Our new carpet feels wonderful on our bare feet! I have 2 more rooms photos to show you but for now here are pics of our bedroom and hall now that all the work is finished. Scroll down to previous posts to see what it looked like before.

I have had my eye on one of Pamela's beautiful stained glass buntings for ages, and now we have a room deserving of it. The garland is my new favorite thing in our room.
Our stairs look SOOOO much better with carpet on,
I'm so pleased with the finish.

More photos of our spare room and study to come!

Redecoration Photos

I promised you photos and here they are. We have started work on 2 rooms at once, the master bedroom and a small box room that we use for all our computers (when you are married to a computer geek you need a whole room for them)

Here is our bedroom before we started work on it. We had very dark red walls on all 4 sides, blond parquet flooring and an imposing wardrobe... egh! I love the red on the walls, but there was too much of it.




So we stripped off the remaining wallpaper, pulled up the parquet flooring and carpet that was underneath it. We primed the walls and then plastered the lot. Plastering is so messy but the result looks great. We also boxed in the pipes for the radiator. In Holland they just leave the pipes showing in this kind of house, but being British I can't stand them so they had to be hidden away.


We painted 3 of the walls in a beautiful cream and one wall is back to being red again. I love a little drama in the bedroom ;) It will look less overpowering when it is broken up with furniture and things on the wall.

I hope you enjoyed a the little tour around our home, more photos for you soon.