Bedroom Transformation

Warning, very picture heavy post! Today I'm so excited to show you our long overdue bedroom transformation! It's been kind of finished for a while, but we dilly dallied around with the finishing touches. I thought I'd go through the stages of what we did to the bedroom because it really has changed quite dramatically!

Before

The bedroom was originally two rooms; you entered through a dressing room and then went through to the main bedroom from there. The whole room was wallpapered and carpeted, the fireplace was completely boarded up (we had no idea what was behind it at the time!) and the woodwork was coated in decades of paint.

During

We ripped up the carpets to find that the floorboards weren't in great condition and because we wanted to get this room decorated fairly quickly we decided to cover them rather than try to restore them. We stripped all the wallpaper off and then decided on a whim to take down the dividing wall. This was a stud wall so we did this ourselves fairly quickly. We then faced a bit of a dilemma that there was original coving in the dressing room but not in the main bedroom and we'd also ripped a rather large chunk out of the ceiling by taking the wall down (total experts obviously!) so we got a plasterer in to take down the coving, replace the ceiling and skim the whole room as the plaster was so old that it was in bad condition anyway. We then stripped all the paint off the woodwork (most laborious job ever) and also off the fireplace. Once all the boring stuff was out of the way it was time to decorate! We painted the walls, ceiling and woodwork, put up some new coving then laid the laminate floor.


After

The room is so much brighter and spacious than it was before. The colour we chose for the walls was 'Whispering Sage' from Wilko's, the woodwork and fireplace are all white and we chose a dark laminate floor to contrast with the rest of the room and make sure it didn't look too cold (even though I would have had the entire room white if I didn't have to compromise with another person!) We took our inspiration for the colours from the original fireplace, which we've cleaned up and left exposed because it's beautiful! Because the other colour in the fireplace was yellow we got a rug, bedding and curtains with yellow in them. Our furniture we had already and is all from Ikea. There are still a few finishing touches to put to the room and I'm sure there will be a growing collection of trinkets and pictures on the walls soon!

What do you think of our transformation? How is your bedroom decorated or how would you decorate it?

Amy x