More Progress...

The Back Bedroom

This was actually the first room we decorated as we thought that as soon as most of the work was done to make the house habitable again, we would need somewhere to sleep once we moved in.

Again, the plaster in this room was really bad, not just the walls but the ceiling as well.  In fact, there are plenty of cracks in the ceiling and it does look like it is bowing slightly!  Anyway that will be dealt with another time when we have some spare money, ha!

We tried to Polyfiller as much as possible to smooth out the walls, but it's still pretty bad.

The first thing we did was to paint a few coats of white emulsion to see how the walls would come up after the paint.

It was still bad....

It's not that clear in the photographs but around the fireplace is really bad.

There had been gas pipes along the skirting boards leading to a gas fire in the bedroom.  Not sure that your meant to have a gas fire in bedrooms but anyway we removed it!

The colour we (I) chose for the bedroom was a really dark blue.  Most people (and Jonathan) think this is too dark but I like it!  Also it hides the state of the plaster so you can't tell how bad it is.

This room was finished way before anything else in the house was done.  So it was nice to come into this room on days when we were working on other things and imagine what it would actually be like to live here eventually!