Project Four: Master Bedroom: Before

This is the room I've been dreading starting. There is just eight weeks until baby arrives and I need to have my bedroom in a fit state for her arrival. In every house we have lived in we have never got round to decorating our bedroom. It is always the one that no one else looks at so tends to be the last one to be considered when it comes to decorating. This time, now that we know we are here to stay I want to make our bedroom special. I want it to be my sanctuary, to escape to when I need to relax or even just to have something nice to look at when up with the baby in the night.

Now our bedroom won't be an easy or quick job. We need new flooring as there is damp on the carpet near the windows and a small amount of damp under the windows. We need to strip the wallpaper on all the walls and eventually I would like new fitted wardrobes as I just don''t like ours. I still haven't made my mind up on wallpaper as I keep changing my mind but I figured if we clear out our room and strip the wallpaper then I can go and choose some without giving me time to change my mind again.I love that the room will be a blank canvas. I will choose a feature paper for the wall behind the bed then choose a colour to match for the other walls. The only thing I have bought so far is a beautiful blue patchwork duvet set from next which I fell in love with.

Anyway for now I will leave you with my before pictures of the room taken before we have started anything else. This is the room with the wallpaper, curtains, drawers and dressing table which were all here when we moved in so just the bed and bedside tables were ours. ( I have big plans for the furniture they left behind though, an exciting upcycle project).

I cannot wait to get started and show your our progress. I'll probably have a few updates to come for this room shortly. It certainly couldn't look much worse than it already does!