House Update - Room by room series

More on our house update - here is the nursery

BEFORE

 

The person that was in this room smoked and it was disgusting, the colour of the walls had discoloured due to the smoking and the smell was so strong I was unable to stay in there too long.

We took the hose in through the window and scrubbed down the walls.

Under the carpet we found partical board and then lino under that.

It took a couple of weeks for the smell to go and I think a couple of coats of new paint helped

 

AFTER

 

 

I always knew this room would be the nursery, it is the smallest room and works perfectly as a nursery. This room was painted with Antique White USA and Ceiling White.

I replaced the wardrobe doors with fabric due to cost as per the previous bedroom. The curtains in this room are the only different ones in the house, its a lovely linen multicoloured polka dot backed with a heavy white cotton.

Like the lovely hand knitted blanket on her cot... thanks to her Mimi

 

We were very lucky with all our nursery furniture, the little cupboard was my great grandma's and the change table and cot are second hand that we purchased on Ebay for a total of $100 and a friend gave us the basinette.



House Update - Room by room series

I'm planning on doing a series of post of our DIY house renovations. This first post will feature my spare bedroom/craft storage room

Before

Yes terrible dark patterned wallpaper and original dark green carpet.
We ripped off all the wallpaper and carpet and found beautiful pine floorboards. The doors to the minature wardrobe came off and were replaced with fabric which I bought in bulk from a fabric shopping trip to Cabramatta. It was going to be too expensive to replace with doors

After

We painted the entire house in Antique White USA and Ceiling White

Do you like my quilt??... from a quilt pack that I bought a couple of years ago from the lovely ladies at prints charming

More posts coming soon

Moved in

We have finally moved in to our HOUSE!! we are so exhausted, every weekend every night doing something on the house to get it to a liveable state. These are some very bad photos but they give you the general idea

Please excuse the mess this is moved in day 2, still unpacking and finding places for things.

Lou

PAINTING

Work is coming along in our house. New Ceilings have been put up and now we are painting.

We currently have no lights so painting in the dark is not very fun. Colours have been decided, Ceiling White for the Ceiling and bathroom and Antique White USA for the walls in the rest of the house. A gloss white for all the windows and doors.
Should look very nice against our polished floorboards.

Lou

The Before Photos

Have been very busy working on the house -  here are some before shots

and some work in progess photos



As you can see all the flooring is gone.. and to our surprise we found floorboards under all the floors which is great. Majority of the wall paper is gone too.

Tonights job is finish taking off the remainder of the wall paper and start sanding the doors and window trims.

Bunnings trip last night to get some samples of white paint - who could have thought there were so many whites!!!

Back to the renos

Lou

Our New House

Yesterday we settled on our house!! So we celebrated our first purchase with champagne and nibbles with the family.
Tomorrow the work begins, riping up carpet, removing old curtains and striping wallpaper!!
Bye bye weekends hello DIY.
I will post up some photos soon. Am taking lots of before photos

Lou

Sewing Rooms Ideas

Today my thoughts are on what to do with my spare room. We have 3 bedrooms in our new/old house. The main bedroom will obviously be mine and DH's bedroom and then the next size down room will be a guest bedroom.
The smaller of the three bedrooms is going to be a combined study/sewing room.

I really like this custom made table found here below

 or this storage solution found here

Lou
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New Pattern

Got some inspiration from little betty yesterday so much so that I went to Tessuti's and order in this dress pattern.
Arrives in 2 weeks. Going to go through the stash and see if I have some fabric to use up.

On another note we get the keys to our in less than 5 weeks

So far we have someone donating to us their tasmanian oak bathroom vanity & mirror. shower screens, cedar blinds & a kitchen
Now we just have to work out how it is all going to it in.
I will have the mammoth task of removing wallpaper from every room. I am trying to think colours.