Last year consisted of a whole year of building work! An utter nightmare at the time but my house is now totally transformed. We have extended up into the loft and out to the side with a bigger kitchen and bathroom. We have been re-wired and re-plumbed and re-decorated all the way through! It was a much bigger job than I had thought and took over double the time .... and money... to achieve it. But at long last it is 'nearly' finished. Just a few cosmetic bits to be sorted out and ta da the Lang house will be complete. I have been very lucky to have had a blank canvas in which to start to put my house back together. At the same time for some reason I have found it quite daunting having to plan whole rooms! The living room is essentially the same with a few extra plug sockets, a skim of plaster and a paint (in the same colours as before) but it does look fresher. The new carpet helps to do this as the one before was on its last legs!
All the other rooms have had a total change! and I love it. I decided after years of quite strong colours to paint most of the walls almond white! It's opened up the whole house up and makes the hall way and landing, which are very narrow look much bigger and brighter. The bedroom as well seem to feel less cluttered as the pictures and quilts are not in competition with the colour of the walls.
In the kitchen and the bathroom I have gone with 'overtly olive' a lush shade of green that I have fallen in love with. The walls in the kitchen and the wood panels in the bathroom look amazing painted in this.
All in all, although we had to move out for several months and it took forever and I now feel stupidly poor it has all been very worth it. My kitchen and bathroom just make me smile when I walk in them..... if they are tidy hehe.
I've also seem to mysteriously acquired an awful lot more Emma Bridgewater in the new year! enough to justify a second dresser. I was so excited when I unpacked all my beautiful 'pinks'
