It occurred to me yesterday that I never finished posting about the updates to our house! My last post, about the attic, was several weeks ago and I still have the first floor and ground floor to recap on! So let’s start with the girls room.

When we first moved in, the girls room was the spare room where all Chris’ friends crashed when they stayed. However for a few months it had also been my brother’s bedroom. On us moving in and completing the attic, my brother moved to the attic and the girls took the spare room. Of course we needed to make it feel homely for them and before we even moved them in, Chris and I decorated their room pink!

This was almost 3 years ago and obviously in our house make-over, we were trying to make the house more sellable. Because of this we painted the girls room, cream, though honestly with how much pink accessories there are in there, you probably can’t tell much difference!

To be honest, if we were planning to stay here longer, the girls could do with getting some different furniture and Megan could do with an office work desk as she will be getting a lot of homework from September. I was tempted to buy one of those bunk beds that has a double on the bottom and a single on the top too, but since the girls would like separate rooms when we move, I don’t want to make any big purchases yet.

Next up is our room. This has been a really gradual process…

When I first moved in with Chris, he had a futon bed and his large wardrobe on one side of the room. We ditched the bed and swapped the wardrobe to the opposite wall, but otherwise didn’t do much. I’ve tried to improve the room in little ways, with nice bedding and even a superhero wall mural at one point. However the biggest and best improvement was when we decided to redecorate and paint the walls magnolia.

I realised that I don’t have a great picture of the room now, only one that was taken at night. Instead of dreadful pink curtains, we now have nice black ones. We bought a headboard and of course some nice new bedding too. We even moved the room around a little, but up some shelves and now my cuddlies have room!