Positives #21

I finally got round to taking photographs of our finished bedroom yesterday. I thought I'd do it after I'd cleaned and tidied it after I'd finished childcare at 2.15pm. Everything in the room is secondhand except for the bed, bedding, and curtains. Cleaning and tidying made me feel better and more in control... tidy house, tidy mind so it's said. I could never concentrate on uni assignments if the house was a mess, so maybe that's true. I also made soup after cooking a chicken carcasss in the slow cooker.  That was my dinner. Brunch was allotment strawberries,  Greek yoghurt and a sprinkle of muesli. I was aiming to exercise in the afternoon,  but cooking and cleaning won.

Looking from the window end of the room towards the curtained wardrobe space that leads to 'Narnia'... the storage area in the eaves.

I love this view,  but the TV is a necessary evil. I've been bedridden several times this year and would have gone mad without some comfort tv to watch.

A wider angle of the view

The curved corner cabinet was £15, the one next to it was £25. Both came from the Emmaus charity shop. The white cupboard houses the boiler. My husband built the cupboard in 2011 when we moved here, using parts of our daughter's old wardrobe.

I covered the little drawers in wallpaper. Wevd had them for years and this is the latest incarnation. The 70s teak lampbase was originally used in the living room, the planter was 30p at the carboot,  and the painting of a windmill was a charity shop find years ago... my husband's several times great grandfather had a windmill in East Yorkshire in the early 1800s.

My dolls house fits perfectly on the tall, narrow drawers, that fit into the alcove space. They were bought using Christmas money, along with the low set I use as a bedside cabinet.

The G plan Fresco wardrobe was the first piece we bought for the room. It cost £150 and we had to take it to pieces to get it up the narrow staircase. My Ercol chair was bought at a carboot sale years ago... I paid £15 for 3 Ercol chairs.

The soft furnishings pick up the colours in the wallpaper 

I covered these small drawers with leftover wallpaper too. They were £3 at a carboot several years pre covid. The vase was £10 at the carboot sale, the lava lamp was a birthday gift. The small wooden pot was made for me by an old friend's husband, and the red heart was made by my elder daughter. The book is secondhand...I used to own a copy when Centennial was shown on TV in the late 70s, but don't know what happened to it,  so I bought myself a new to me copy recently.

The sideboard came from Emmaus a few days after we bought the cupboards. I'd originally agreed to buy a dressing table elsewhere,  arranged for it to be delivered, then received a message to say that they had sold it to someone else. I was fuming, but everything happens for a reason, and the sideboard provides much more storage. I paid £225 for it, then saw one for over £600 not long after. It is also G plan Fresco, so all the furniture matches. Getting it up the stairs was easier than anticipated!

I bought the painting in Liskeard over 10 years ago  for £8. It's a view of Polruan painted in 1976. I still need a rug for my side of the bed but haven't yet come across one. It's on the list that I carry around in my head!