It's a Green House

Today we are covering the project I'm personally most proud of, I did this 100% myself and it turned out much better than expected! I bought the bars but the shelves were the bulk of the work which I  used only scrap wood and paint we already had for, so if you also have scrap wood hanging around (the renovations just seem to produce endless wood off cuts here) and are looking for things to do this could be a good lockdown project. Here's the before and after to get us started, the before photo was the day we moved in and before any work started.  Obviously the rest of the bedroom has had a lot of work done as you can see from those pictures, which is covered here , but this post is just about the functionality and fittings in the wardrobe.  Having a built in wardrobe in the UK isn't necessarily a given, so we are lucky to have a one in the master bedroom. However it wasn't really laid out to use it to its full potential so I did some work to get mo...

The porch, hallway, stairs and landing aren't done, but have gotten to a point at least where I can share some good before and after/during photos! When we moved in it looked like this, the front door didn't work and was covered in curtains. The porch is quite hard to photograph as its only 2m by 2m, but its a plain square room with a small window on the left hand wall. This was taken with my back to the front door. Dark carpet, textured wallpaper on the walls and ceilings, and yellowed gloss trim all combined to make it seem pretty dark and dated. The landing does have a window on the top of the stairs, it looks out into the trees in the park so its a nice view. Its currently much greener out there than in this photo! Then into the ladder and multiple doorway situation that we had going on when we moved in. That's the bathroom on the first left, the spare room on the second left, the partially converted loft is up the large (permanently atta...