It’s #OneRoomChallenge time! If you’re visiting for the first time then welcome! Here are the links to catch up on Week One and Week Two.

This week has been almost entirely devoted to painting, with a little bit of coving / crown molding excitement thrown in.

I’d given the fresh plaster a coat of watered down white paint during the first week so another one of those plus two coats of Farrow & Balls’ ‘Blackened’, colour matched to Valspar’s Matt Premium Walls and Ceiling paint at B&Q (because I was too lazy to make the trek to the nearest Farrow & Ball stockist and too impatient to order it online and wait for delivery), has made a massive difference to the room. I probably could have got away with just one coat of Blackened as the coverage was fantastic.

I’d highly recommend the Valspar colour matching if you can’t easily get your hands on the paint colour you want from another brand. I took along the paint chart I had for them to match and the colour was spot on, I couldn’t tell the difference between the original sample pot I had and the colour matched paint. Plus, the quality of the paint was fantastic and really well priced. Two enthusiastic thumbs up right here!

The colour is perfect in the dining room and keeps things feeling light and bright, without being cold. Continue reading “ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | WEEK THREE: PAINT, PAINT AND MORE PAINT” →

Has it only been seven days? It feels both simultaneously like the past week has flown by and also that I’ve spent half my life working on flooring.

I realised after I put my post up last week that I had been a #badBlogger and failed to include any before pictures of the dining room.

The only picture I seem to have of the dining room area before any changes were made is this one from the estate agent listing. As I’ve mentioned before, the previous owners used the dining area of the kitchen as a casual seating area and the conservatory as a dining room. Then there’s this one taken just as we were clearing out the space the night before work on knocking through the wall to the living room started. Hopefully they give a bit of an idea of what the space was like before. Once the building work had been completed we were left with a space like this… Continue reading “ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | WEEK TWO: THE BEFORES AND NEW FLOORS” →