Bedroom Reveal Before/After

I am so ridiculously happy to have our bedroom reno finished! It took us about 4 weeks to finish, which is way too long but we had work/life in between! The first picture below is the finished bedroom and then a whole bunch of before pics.  When people previously came around to visit I was really embarrassed to show them this room - it was soooo bad! Slightly terrified to show you but it does make the after photos that much better!

The pretty after!

The BEFORE - although at this stage we had cleaned the mould - the photos will get worse!

Ben doing the ripping!

As we pulled down the skirting, all the termite eaten wood came crumbling down - big mess!

Big job!

The cats loved all the drop sheets though - instant playground!

Since I'm normally set up in the bedroom, I had to move my desk and belonging out into the lounge

Chaos!

This was taken after we had moved everything out and the crazy amount of mould revealed itself in the full!

The walls needed so much prepping!

Cleaning, scrapping, gap filling and plastering!

I hate even looking at these mould photos! Super gross!

THE BEFORE and the...

AFTER!
So fresh! Very grateful we finally kicked out butts into gear and made this happen

So nice to sleep in here now :)

Our yellow door!

We're going to add a few more plants to that shelf, we want to make some nice ceramic planters for them first though :)

I didn't actually get a good shot of the desk but it's the reason the reno happened.  This desk was free off fb marketplace and as I was moving my old desk out and the new one in, I started to clean the mould off on the wall behind.  It freaked me out that I was only doing this one patch of wall and not cleaning the whole bedroom and as they say, the rest is history.

So nice to walk into the bedroom now :) No more shame!

LOVE!

Eventually I'm going to move my stuff out to a studio on the verandah (when that gets built) but for now the main bedroom exists in this configuration :) 

Paint Colour Info: We painted the ceiling, walls, and trim in 'white on white' by Australian paint company Haymes. The walls were painted in an acrylic satin sheen and the trim was in an oil gloss. The pink wardrobe was painted using a local chalk company, Canterbury Blue and the colour was 'pixie pink'.

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Pink Chalk Painted Lowboy

So I finally did it, I entered the World of chalk-painted furniture *gasp* and to my delight it's been loads of fun! Since we move so much (or at least it feels like we do) I've never really considered buying proper furniture (moving sucks but moving heavy things that don't fit into my car, sucks even more!).  

In the last few years I've tried to change my mentality of 'I'll do that when I have x/y/z in order' because (let's face it!) they may never be in order so I better just enjoy life right now :) So I went online and tracked down a low boy which I actually thought was a lot lower than it turned out to be.  Luckily, Ben and his friend Lowie and the lovely old couple I was buying it off were super patient and we were eventually able to bring it home via Lowie's trailer.  To everyone's horror, I had my heart set on painting it pink which I started to doubt after seeing its beautiful raw state but sometimes you just have to follow your pink-obsessed heart!

I tracked down a local company who manufactures chalk paint (Canterbury Blue) and has all the good things; vegan, locally made, low voc and a lovely owner that we had the pleasure of meeting.  I picked up a tin in the shade Pixie Pink and set off painting my low boy.

This thing weights a tonne!

The before! I 100% appreciate all the beautiful carpentry and wood involved in making it and would have loved it painted or not :)

The chalk paint company, Canterbury Blue - very affordable too!

The After: Ta-Daaaaaa! I'm a little bit obsessed with it and couldn't be happier with the pink.  
Ben has even came around to its pink ways :)

Oh and here's a little sneak peak of my new room, which I love, it's huge, has painted white walls, polished floorboards, hooks in the wall to hang art *gasp* and a big window to let lovely light in! *dream*

I ended up doing three coats of the pink on the low boy.  Cantebury Blue has two different ranges of paints, this colour belongs in the family that needs sanding after painting the final coat and before sealing.  I was a little scared to sand it because I'm not the biggest fan of distressed furniture and thought sanding would simply equate to that look but if you go gentle on the sanding it actually just makes the finish so so smooth! I then just finished the piece off with a waterproof sealer I picked up from the thrift store.  Nothing fancy, just something to make the end result non porous :)

Oh and I couldn't help but add some tassels and a pom pom!

:) :)

So the question is - would you have painted the cupboard or kept it pure?

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