The bedroom is pretty much done - just a few finishing touches like the mirror etc but we are back in, everything is away int he wonderfully organised new storage (I did enjoy that bit) and we are done. In every sense! No more big renovations ever. No more endless furniture moving. Our backs - we hope - will heal. We are both in pain but it is, we think, worth it.
We had a Sharps fitted bedroom 32 years ago when we first moved in and it was showing its age. The colours had faded, the hinges were not what they had once been and the whole things was looking a bit shabby. We also had an issue witht he floor with several soft spots that Nigel had tried to patch but we knew the only real fix was a new floor and that was only possible really if it were WHOLE floor so we decided to upgrade the bedroom with pretty much the same configuration but much much nicer units, new and crisp and clean and better built. Funnily enough we had Sharps to quote as well as Hammonds and they were dearer. I cannot believe it as the quality of the hammonds is vastly superior. Anyway, two weeks of upheaval and hell. Do you have any idea how much stuff is in a bedroom of our size. Soooooooo much. And it all had to go somewhere and so did we. We have a four bed house but one room is a studio, one os a library/study one is the boys room and one is ours so we moved intot he dining room. That means the dining room furniture moving, the bed going downstairs and then 8 wardrobes - double hanging - of clothes moved to the loft on borrowed clothes rails, all the other cupboards and stuff emptied into boxes in the garage (with the dining room furniture) and then all moving back again.As we packed the few clothes (very few as there was nowhere to put them) for the two weeks, the toiletries as we wouldn't have access to our en suite we said it was like packing for the worst holiday ever. Now, you are probably going to want to skip this as this is for my benefit so I remember. If I were you and you have read this far I'd just skip to the last few photos.
Before the work began but everything a[art from the bed and fan has gone by this point ... and the units look better int he photo than they did in reality
Our dining room - now a bedroom
Wardrobes gone 
and skip to new flooring down (it was too scary to go in there when there were just joists as the old floor was removed and the new one laid
walls to wash, fill, rub down and paint and paintwork to gloss
Painted!
and the view from the temporary bedroom, including cows, wasn't bad.
Four days of building
Oh and we had wallpapered one evening when they left!
I'd never had a proper corner wardrobe you could properly reach into before
Finishing off to be done and obviously no carpet yet
and apart from the finishing touches - we are done and we love it. Love the colour, the quality of the units, the solid floor, the luxurious carpet. Love it. (the last picture is a close up of the chest so you can see the finish of the wood
One of the things I was most looking forward to was the neutral palette so I can change the look with the bedding. I have been tied to aqua bedding for the last 13 years so this time we were determined the whole thing should be neutral.
View from the en suite
We love it and so do the cats
Today I am thankful for
- a job being completed
- a solid floor without spots to avoid
- Paul who took out the old bedroom and redid the floor
- Hammonds for being able to build what we had in our heads
- Radek our wonderful installer who was the hardest worker I have ever known, who was tireless and happy and smiling and a clean careful worker
- Nigel who kept going despite being in considerable pain
- our wonderful new crisp clean opulent bedroom
