My guest room- before, during and now

Now: New cream carpets,windows painted white with new chrome fittings, cream wooden blinds from Ikea, walls painted in beige white from Crown

Now: New skirting painted in brilliant white eggshell, radiator painted white, new door painted white

Now: New coving painted in brilliant white eggshell, ceilings painted white, light fitting from Alders

During: New skirting, everything given a white undercoat

During: Walls re-plastered and patched

During: old cupboards removed, stairs extended across room

Before: Dark, dirty narrow entrance

Before: Purple walls with silver stencil stars, silver radiator, purple carpet, purple door

Before: old entrance with painted glass panel above door

As some of you may know, we bought our house a few years back and it was in a right state: from the ugly exterior to the old, decrepit kitchen and nondescript garden! Over the past few years we have been transforming our house and there is not a hint of what it used to look like left.
When we bought our house it had one dirty old bathroom downstairs that we transformed into a cloakroom and laundry room. Which you can read more about here and here.

Therefore we wanted to transform one of the single bedrooms upstairs into our new bathroom, we had a choice of two single bedrooms to choose from. We went for the bedroom that looked out on to the neighbours white wall as the other single room has great views of the garden and overlooks a leafy green park. But the original entrance to the single bedroom was at the end of the hallway round a dark corner that was riddled with cupboard doors which made the entrance to the other double bedroom very dark and narrow. So we knocked down the wall that had the old entrance to the bathroom in it and changed the entrance to be in the hallway near our master bedroom. At the same time we also decided to get rid of the three cupboards that made the said entrance to the guest room really narrow and dark. We then rebuilt the wall in a straight line and extended the guest bedroom to include part of the old hallway, which has made it much brighter and more welcoming. At the weekend we got the room carpeted so today I wanted to share with you what it looked like before, during and now. Later this week I will be sharing with you my designs for the furniture layout and deco for the room.

Floor plan before and now

To see all the before, during and now pictures of our house check out my Facebook albums

Have a sweet day!