Missing a finishing touch to the makeover – and wall stickers were IT! #TinyRoomMakeover
Aug01

Missing a finishing touch to the makeover – and wall stickers were IT! #TinyRoomMakeover

So having decided on the plain walls, and properly loving their simple plain-ness, we wavered once the room started to be filled. The entrance ‘leg’ by the door was just a little too plain. Her easel had been broken down, and the chalk and white boards were mounted on the right, but on the left we had nothing. The husband picked up a cute little photo frame, but it was too small to fill the wide stretch of wall that first...

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Solving the impossible; which bed fits a kid’s tiny bedroom? #TinyRoomMakeover
Jul31

Solving the impossible; which bed fits a kid’s tiny bedroom? #TinyRoomMakeover

So the room is now all set and ready to be refilled. We’d upcycled some furniture, we’d painted new shelves, we’d thought about storage. But how to choose the bed… When we started the whole room, this is where we began the design process. The room is so very tiny that the bed had to the main feature. We’d tried all sorts of options on paper. We decided the best option was definitely to lift the bed off...

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The one where she chose PURPLE carpet #TinyRoomMakeover
Jul30

The one where she chose PURPLE carpet #TinyRoomMakeover

When you’ve lived for a very long time with very old carpet, you simply cease to notice it. Like you don’t notice your nose. It’s just there, doing it’s job; your eyes can see it but your brain chooses to ignore it. Same thing with old carpet – you’re so used to it, you simply stop seeing and feeling it. Stop noticing how horrible it is. Ripping out that skanky old 1980’s peach carpet was...

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Made-To-Measure blinds for a kids room. Result! #TinyRoomMakeover
Jul29

Made-To-Measure blinds for a kids room. Result! #TinyRoomMakeover

So we had new walls, and before we had a new floor we wanted to get as much of the messy work done as we could. But we couldn’t do the shelves util the bed was up and we saw how they’d fit around it. And we couldn’t do the bed till we had the carpet… so we got on with upcycling the rest of the furniture, painting the shelves in readiness, and realised we could fit the blind too. Previously she’d had big...

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How Can you Make a Tiny Kids Room Perfect? #TinyRoomMakeover
Jul28

How Can you Make a Tiny Kids Room Perfect? #TinyRoomMakeover

When we bought our house back in 1992, it had been decorated throughout by the previous couple – everything was neat and tidy, and in bland late 80’s taste. We slowly re-decorated most of the rooms, pretty much as driven to by necessity: a ceiling came down thanks to a burst radiator pipe, a ceiling came down thanks to a shower leak, a pregnancy happened so a spare room had to be made into a nursery… you get the...

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