Downstairs bedroom progress...small steps!

So just the other day I posted about the small room downstairs we were turning into a bedroom. The reason this space is becoming a bedroom is because we decided to get a student boarder (our place being pretty big for only two people).

The reason I had this nice leisurely post about what I was planning was because I thought we were going to have a few weeks before someone was found, leaving me time to decorate to my heart's content!

However, things didn't quite work like that, and someone wants to start moving in this weekend. Cue, panic!

A few months ago (ok, maybe more than a few, but ssshhh) the room looked like this...



  

A little while after that, we managed to get it to this point...tiling started, and the first stages of the undercoat on..



 After grouting the room became our storeroom until we had finished the other spaces downstairs, as it wasn't really a high priority.

The result was that when this new boarder called the other day, I had an undercoated room (no top coats) with unpainted window frames and stacked to the ceiling with furniture projects and boxes.

Monday night, we moved furniture, painted, and painted. Last night we had to clean the floors, finish the window frames, hang some curtains and put some basic furniture in there so the room vaguely respectable.

I threw in some existing furniture pieces, cushions and other things I had stored away and the room currently looks like this. (Obviously, the bedspread badly needs ironing but I wanted to get a quick photo before work this morning so please be nice!)

So, it's certainly not as pretty as I plan it to be, but at least it's clean, painted and liveable for the moment. Once she moves in, I can have some more fun finishing the room, and promise to post pictures.

The next stages
- Make an upholstered headboard.
- Paint & upholster bench.
- Artwork.
- Blind for window behind curtains. Maybe a pelmet?
- Paint desk and cover pretty desk chair.
- Make pinboard.
- Paint wardrobe.
- New bedspread.
- Maybe a little dressing table?

Well...at least there's a bed!

Anna xx