Goodbye hideous fitted cupboards...

Ever since we moved here I've been itching to take out the fitted cupboards in our bedroom 1) they suck out all the light, 2) they take up a huge amount of floor space in our room, 3) they were half full of junk that we never used and 4) it always seemed such a shame to not have a fireplace in the bedroom in a cottage (that is kind of what you expect in a cottage). So today was D-day - out went the junk to the tip, old clothes and shoes to the Charity shop (about the 10th load this year!) and anything worth anything, such as a lovely DAB radio that we can't use as we live in the sticks, is making its way to friends.

Excuse the terrible photos, but by the time we had finished it was dark! Do you remember way back when how the room used to look?

Really badly fitted wardrobes and very dark, mock tudor beams (yuk, this isn't a tudor cottage - it's Victorian!). Well, today we decided to finally rip out the wardrobes to make way for my grandparents' his and hers 1950s utility wardrobes. They look a little bit look this (only much nicer)

and I can't wait to paint and paper them like I did with this wardrobe.

It looks so much brighter in the room already! Obviously the whole room needs plaster boarding, plastering, and new carpet fitted so try to look past the artex! :-)

Do you remember the Victorian fireplace I bought for £50 eons ago on ebay? Well, that's the next job to do (we can install that ourselves) and then the plasterer (coming round to quote on Monday) can come and sort out the dreadful walls. I cannot wait for that - they will be the smoothest walls in the house, well apart from the boarded walls! Carpet wise I'm thinking the thickest and most expensive underlay and then a wool mix cream/beige/grey carpet.

Fingers crossed in a couple of weeks it should all be done and finally one room in this house will be artex/nasty carpet free. :-)

Fear not though eco friendly folks, the wooden cupboards are now up in the loft and will be reused to make a utility/larder cupboard for our kitchen (they will be painted of course). :-)

To be continued...