One Room Down...

When I posted a couple of months ago about having moved house and feeling a bit overwhelmed, lots of people left really lovely and supportive comments. I am hugely appreciative of this, it was really helpful to feel that other people had done the same thing and survived - thank you to everyone who commented. Now we're over half a year in, things are starting to feel less daunting and more manageable. So, I thought I would share the one room of the house that we have so far redecorated, Miss Kestrel's bedroom.

Here are some 'before' pictures:


It was a bit of a pink and purple mess, with really badly painted edges. There were a couple of different types (ages) of plug socket and the coving had a gap in it.

First step was stripping old wallpaper, which had been painted over many times and was pretty stubborn - followed by lots of filling and sanding.

We ended up getting the room rewired and put up new coving too and all the woodwork was painted a nice gloss white

After watching a few Youtube videos and gathering our supplies, we tackled wallpapering for the first time ever! The lining paper was a good practice:

I'd bought this animal wallpaper before we even moved in, and I think we did a really good job of putting it up. Though the wallpapering in the rest of the house looks like it was done by a drunk man with one arm, so it wouldn't be hard to beat that.

Of course, the room has some handmade touches. the main one is the curtains, made from a charity shopped duvet cover. Once we'd committed to that wallpaper, it was pretty hard to choose a curtain colour. I suppose we could have gone for plain (but really, what sewist gets excited about plain fabric?) but it was good to be able to use something already in my stash:

One side was patterned and the other plain. Here's my first attempt....whoops! I did manage to get it evened out later though,

These cushion covers were made with a half metre of Aneela Hoey fabric I bought ages ago, just because I liked it. They were backed with some lovely soft scrap needlecord.

There's room for a couple of handmade friends and the cloud wall hanging I made when Miss Kestrel was a baby:

 

 

I'm really pleased with the picture wall

 And there's even a play tent

 

The room is lovely and cosy and it's great for Miss Kestrel to have such a nice place to play. We all enjoy hanging out in there.

There are still a few finishing touches (like hemming the curtains properly) but it's basically done and it feel great!

This is how it mostly looks - I think she's trying to do headstands!

K x