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Bedrooms one year on

I've done this post as one post for both bedrooms as they haven't seen a great deal of progress since I last wrote about the bedroom here so I didn't think there was really any need to rewrite the same post about it! In fact the master bedroom still pretty much looks like it does in this post from May except that it has skirting boards now and I've done a little more work on the fitted wardrobe which I will cover in its own post. The spare room is still the same except full of random crap which doesn't have a home yet and it does not have a door on. Hey not all the rooms can look better! The plan for the spare room is to knock out the stud wall and get the room just back to a regular spare room, we might make it into a film room as I have a projector. Thinking a sofa bed in there so people can stay over, a desk would also be nice so that I can work on there rather than the sofa and we have somewhere to store pa...

Living room progress

The living room has seen sporadic and pretty random progress to be honest but its getting there! This is how it looked on move in day, I ripped that bit of wallpaper off to see what was underneath and we inherited the green lamp with the house... This was the door out to to the kitchen, which originally opened out to a little hallway with the kitchen door to the right and the utility room and toilet on the left, you can see what we did there in the post about the kitchen progress . This was the one room out of the whole house where all four walls were not wallpapered with just the feature walls being wallpaper, although the entire ceiling was wallpapered just to make up for it. We stripped that all off pretty early on and took up the carpet. It stayed like this for quite some time, bare floorboards which luckily were in pretty decent condition, and bare walls. The kitchen lived in here for a bit until it was fitted and before we moved in!     We...