Curtains!!!

We picked up some curtains over the weekend. They are temporary, until we have some made, and they are a little bit short, BUT they make the room feel so much cozier. The sarong was good at keeping prying eyes out, but it really wasn't up to scratch! This is so much better... Meanwhile, the painting still is not finished, but I will be heading out to the DIY shops on BGR tomorrow to see whether they have any Dulux Nutmeg White...

Stalled

There has been a lack of posting. There has been a lack of DIY. Mostly to do with the lack of paint, but also largely down to lack of motivation. However! We still don't have any paint, but we do have some temporary curtains. They are peach. Or maybe salmon. Not really an ideal colour, but it will serve better than the sarong we currently have hanging there (see below post) and will be better at stopping the neighbours peering in. Of course, we have no curtain hooks with which to hang said curtains, but hopefully that should be fairly easily resolved...

Uh oh...

BUT

Something to brighten up the white

I am home without a voice today, but boredom drove me to start on another area in the flat. I need some painter's tape before I can start on all of the skirting boards, but I think this blue will look great with the white walls.

Ta da

WTF

The bookshelves might take longer than expected. This is the state of one of the walls. To be fair, it is the wall you can't really see, but still, I don't just want to paint over it so am painstakingly wetting and scraping it off.

One thing about all this DIY is it does make me feel better about not doing any exercise lately... scraping and painting are damn strenuous!

I'm a Googlewhack!

Searching for 'beanbaps' on the Internet only brings up one site - mine! Kind of excited by that...

Note the dodgy plastering on the bottom right of the wall. I think we will need to replaster it at some point, but for now having it white has made this room a lot lighter!

The next step will be the bookshelves. I am thinking of painting the back wall behind the books blue. I have some very pretty paint to use, so will post pics in the next few days (or whenever it gets done!)

One day....

Surfing the design porn on Desire to Inspire and Design*Sponge...

Okay, so my flat is unlikely to ever be on a design porn website, but it doesn't hurt to look!

Wallpaper hell

So, I might have mentioned that the guy who lived here before had 'interesting' taste, but I don't think I can have properly conveyed my annoyance with the levels of wallpaper that plague the walls.

The patterns very conveniently cover it all up, but once painted white, you begin to see that the surface is flecked with bumps of wallpaper that he failed to properly remove. Not just near the ceiling, which is where the wallpaper is in the rest of the room, but all around the fireplace. How annoying...


There are also areas of totally uneven wall. How did they get this way? I did the undercoat on the wall by the fireplace today and now realise just how uneven it is. What should I do? I think all of the wallpaper is now off, but I'm really not sure what to do about the uneveness. I think it might require plastering. Is DIY plastering ever a good idea? Probably not... I think I might need to start investigating the builder situation...

Despite the bumpy wall, the room is starting to look a lot lighter now that that wall is white!