Room Going Spare.

posted by Jaitu at 08:56

With now less than a week to go before my Mother-In-Law arrives for a
month long visit the 'guest bedroom' is almost complete. What was our
spare/computer/storage room has been transformed into our new favourite
room in the house. Gone is the exercise bike, the enormous computer
desk, the shelving units and the insane number of boxes and bags. Gone
too are the sunshine yellow walls, the battered formerly beige (?)
carpet and the graduated purple curtains. Now we have a calm neutral
space. Plain cream walls and carpet, a new sofa-bed, new light shades
and lamps, fitted blinds in the window to control glare and provide some
privacy, clean coving and replacement door handles. Last night we put up
a new brown suede roman blind to provide full blackout. All that's left
to find is a chest of drawers to go in there and we're about done.
Finding this last piece of furniture has proven far more difficult than
expected though with many hours browsing both online stores as well as
real world bricks and mortar shops. No doubt we'll find something
suitable but with only a handful of days to go, and a friends wedding
occupying a large chunk of this weekend, time is tight.