This post has been a long time coming …
Over the last 6 months I have struggled with maintaining both my blogs, this one and my family/parenting one and since I am now nearly 7 months pregnant it has been a fair choice to keep The Oliver’s Madhouse up to date at the detriment of this one…
However over the last 6 months I have so much to now catch up on here, I have spent my time being pregnant so far titivating and decorating every single room of my house … decorating nurseries, planning, nesting and sweating … a lot.
So where did this epic journey come from?
We started with our bedroom as storage had always been a massive massive issue, when I moved in 6 years ago I organised the storage with only me in mind since I was never ever going to live with another man in my life.
Needless to say with cramped wardrobe space and a now husband that is obsessive about t-shirts life had become quite chaotic in the bedroom…. Where storage was concerned.
I personally love clean lines, no clutter and nothing under beds or on flat surfaces but yet everywhere I turned we are sinking under piles of clothing and tat that my husband wanted to keep and I wanted to bin!
So having decorated a year back and loved our room colours we decided to freshen up the emulsions and tidy up the gloss work before updating the tired carpet and sorting out our much-needed storage issues with the help of the Ikea Pax sliding wardrobes.
We have had the plans for the wardrobes completed for months but they took some saving for as they were not a cheap option.
Both Ollie and I had a side each to customise of the Pax wardrobe and I went for half hanging and half trouser hangers with a long wire drawer at the bottom and Ollie went for top half hanging and in the bottom of his he went for half trouser hanging and half wire drawers.
Overall we kept with our much-loved oak and went for soft close sliding mirrored doors and automatic lighting so that when Ollie gets up for work and can’t find something he no longer had to turn on the overhead light as the light came on in his wardrobe which is far softer lighting.
We also got rid of my dressing table in favour of a full length drawers to give us yet more storage and to also then be able to add a large mirror over the top which helped massively to lighten the room and instead I used the top drawer for my make up and toiletries and we gained bags of drawers in the wide, deep malm drawers.
The bedding and curtains were from John Lewis from their Indah range which offers this fabulous striking pattern in yellow or blue.
It took some time-saving for, but for the first time since moving in, we finally have a room that works for us with bags of storage and light and we love it!
You know I was just thinking as I walked up the stairs just now how our storage was rubbish. It’s a key thing to get right isn’t it? I think it makes or breaks a room.
It looks amazing and very you. I need to sort out our bedrooms. They are next on our list
That looks brilliant – my bedroom is in need of a makeover too but it always seems to get pushed to the bottom of the to-do list x
Well done on getting it finished, it looks great. Storage is so important, when we finally get around to doing our bedroom we really need to sort ours out.
What beautiful bedding. I like the idea of a lit wardrobe, too. Good not to have to scrabble round in those dimly lit corners!
Oh it looks lovely, I love those wardrobes x
aww thanks Sonia .. those wardrobes have been amazing!