Bedroom Floors Reveal And A Giveaway!!

The bedroom floors are all done and so I can show you how they look!! We're really pleased with them and after having such scruffy flooring for such a long time it has made such a huge difference to how the house looks.


Our room:

We are so pleased with the white washed laminate - it was from UK Flooring Direct and cost just £7.35 per sq m. It doesn't look any cheaper than the oak laminate we have downstairs which was much more expensive.

I went and painted the wardrobe in the end:

I'm not sure about it!! :0/ - it looks a bit......I dunno.....I'm thinking of putting a bit of CK Rose Sprig wallpaper on the eight panels or something....


The boys room is much better:

Am going to paint their wardrobe & bookcase at some point, not sure what colour as I'm not keen on mine in Old White

Still no CK tiles in the bathroom as the floor is still drying, hopefully they are going down tomorrow.

In the meantime, I have a little giveaway for you - I am delighted to have reached 200 followers so I have a copy of "Where Women Create"  - I love to nosey round other people's craft rooms so this book is a treat!!:

Aren't these rooms fab? If you'd like to be entered into the draw to win the book you just need to be a follower and leave a comment below - I'll use a random number generator to pick a winner next Friday 14th October....

hugs,

S x 

H, The Budding Photographer....

On Saturday before we had to start moving everything round and painting for the floors to go down we took a walk to one of our favourite spots. H was in charge of the camera and we discovered he has a bit of an eye for it - he is desperate for me to show you his photos.

Daisy & Milo in the lake:

Look, he even captured the splash of the ball and the dogs in mid-air in this one!!

They are both so desperate to carry the ball they try and mug each other for it.... 

Daisy always tugs on Milo's collar and if he is not wearing one she will tug on the scruff of his neck!!

I love the jaunty angle of this one....

Considering the pics were taken with the same mediocre camera I use I think H has done really well, some of these are very good!! It was the first time we had let have free use of the camera and we'll definitely let him be in charge again....

On the flooring front we have the laminate down in the bedrooms (it looks fabby, photos to follow soon) but have encountered a problem in the bathroom, I went to rip up the lino yesterday evening and the area of floor under the sink (which is just chipboard) was wet through - something was leaking. 

Mr G had a look and luckily the leak was easy enough to sort but of course we are now having to wait for the boards to dry out - thankfully the leak can't have been going for long because the floor isn't spongy or damaged, just wet.

So, there is a delay on my lovely Cath Kidston tiles - hopefully our chap will be able to return at the end of the week to fit them....

Come back tomorrow for giveaway news!!

hugs,

S x

It Always Looks Worse Before It Looks Better....

Morning my lovelies!! How was your weekend?


Today we are having our long awaited floors down upstairs, we are having laminate that looks like white-washed boards to replace a moth eaten carpet, a carpet Mr G put down (inexpertly!!) and badly painted boards (in the boys room).


We spent virtually the whole of yesterday clearing out our room and the sewing room and cramming it in the boys rooms and bathroom. This is what the boys room looks like this morning:

My wedding dress to the right....

You can just see Dolly (my duct tape dress-form) there to the right....

We have had a restless nights sleep, not sure why although the room is cold feeling and echo-y and the bed was very creaky (due to no carpet? Hope it's not going to be like that with the laminate). Our room looks like this:

Although the boards in our room are nice enough to paint the rest aren't hence the laminate....

While we're looking at pics of our room do you think we need a cream/white bed? I have my eye on the lovely chunky metal ones at Feather And Black. 


And should I take the plunge and paint the wardrobe? I bought it BC (Before Children) when I still worked (I worked for Zurich and on some anniversary or other of theirs they gave every employee £1000 bonus!!) and have always resisted painting it because it is nice waxed pine, but it is looking a tad orange these days and I do so love my painted furniture....


The sewing room:

Complete with our flooring man!!

Tomorrow we are having the boys room and the bathroom done so this evening we have to move everything back and then clear out the boys room!!

I'll leave you with a big hint as to what we are having in the bathroom:

Check back soon for a 200 follower (I can hardly believe it!!)  giveaway!!

hugs,

S x