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I can’t believe it has been almost a year since I started this blog and, shame on me, I haven’t posted very much about our apartment renovation during all that time. After many long, arduous months of re-decorating, our home is finally metamorphosising into exactly that – a home. To say that it has been a slow process would be an understatement and as with most of these things it has been fraught with problems from the outset. But, I can finally reveal some of it to the outside world without hanging my little head in shame, so here’s the first of the before and afters…
Before
Just to clarify, the bathroom was tiny as you can see in the picture on the left above so we knocked down the wall between it and the walk in wardrobe in the bedroom, pictured right, to create a much more appropriately sized main bathroom. The wallpaper was peeling off the wall due to a leak from a corroded pipe on the roof – the main reason that our re-decorating took longer to complete.
After
Now it’s all a bit matchy matcherson in my opinion but it was designed to satisfy the wants and needs of many so my own creative whimsy was put to one side along with the notion of a free-standing bath. The white porcelain tiles were a great little find in B&Q, until we discovered that a) they’re not white and b) they come in many different shades of not white. It turns out that B&Q don’t have batch numbers on these particular tiles and it is impossible to match shades, especially under the UV lights of their shop floor. So, after weeks of to-ing and fro-ing to various B&Q shops we gave up on ever finding the shade of “not white” that we needed to complete the bathroom so we have resigned to living with a strip of tiles that are just one shade different than the rest of the wall. See if you can spot it!
As expected, the tongue and groove has moved a little since it was installed and needs to be touched up with another lick of paint but, I must admit, I like that it’s not perfect because it gives the bathroom a slightly aged look. You see, in my strange interiors obsessed little world, I love newly decorated interiors but I don’t like when they look like newly decorated interiors. I like a home to look worn and lived in, a bit rough around the edges, not untidy or unclean, just with added character.
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7 Responses to “Bathroom Evo-loo-tion!”
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Lovely renovation it looks stunning. You should be proud
It’s adorable! I love that shade of green you’ve chosen. Precious.
Happy new year… it’s a beautiful room, I love the radiator towel heater!
Thank you for your kind comments ladies
i hear ya sister on the slow, expensive, can of worms process of renovations! the bathroom looks gorgeous – cant spot those tiles you’re talking about, LOVE the tongue and groove and i think your shower screen is the exact same one as ours – did you have as much trouble as us in finding a really nice neat, plain one?
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Thanks Sharon, I was hoping the tiles wouldn’t be spotted, to be honest the shade variation is very slight but then I am very picky too! Yep, same as you, couldn’t find a plain shower door anywhere so gave up and left it to our trusty builder to pick one up from one of his suppliers.
Thank you too Angela, for the very kind mention on your blog today, I’m beaming here!