A little Shabby Chic

You will have seen the photos of our master bedroom on My Home page. What was once in this area was a much smaller bedroom with a window opening out to the front verandah, back in the '20s. Later, the end of the verandah was built in to make a sun-porch which was accessed from the remaining verandah, as was very common. During the '80s renovation, the door to the verandah had been taken out, the sunporch incorporated into the bedroom, and a bay window added to the front. Thank goodness for that, as it's about the nicest 'original' feature of the house and it's not even original!

Now, it has a new colour on the walls, ceiling, windows and doors, new hardware on the windows and cupboards, new curtains and a blind, and the last couple of things will be a new bedhead and carpet. (The curtains were installed later, so I'll include photos of them when I get around to taking them) I had to sell almost all of our bedroom furniture, much to my husbands disgust, and buy new, smaller furniture to fit the smaller dimensions of the room. I guess that's what you get when you cram 4 bedrooms into 143m2! I haven't managed to get him to agree to downsize from a king-size bed (now that the three kids aren't regularly in our bed in the mornings!) to a queen, so it's still somewhat cramped and I keep crashing my thigh into the bed-end when I walk past when I'm tired! 

An op-shop side table which I painted.
This little window now has a striped blind
and I have bought a new linen-upholstered bedhead
which I need to install and photograph.

I put up an old-fashioned 'picture rail' to make the most
of the high ceilings. 

NB. I finally convinced darling husband that we needed a different bed. My battered and bruised thighs still twitch as I walk past the foot of the bed in the dark but are now safe from sharp, wooden bed-steads!

All the cupboards had rimu architraves,
brass handles and cream paintwork.
They all got the white high-gloss treatment.
We replaced the four big, round downlights with
a nice crystal chandelier. 

My sewing corner