Decorating; Another room finished

It’s finished, I’ve been working non stop and finally, late this evening, my new studio/ guest room was finished.  There are a couple of little things I need to get help with, the curtain pole needs screwing back onto the wall properly and the new ventilation grill above the door needs to be screwed into place. Apart from that…………..it’s complete.

Mr and Mrs Scarecrow stand on top of the shelf unit guarding the spider plants. They were a lucky find in the pound store, they cost just £1.00 each and are intended as garden ornaments, but I rather like them looking down on me.

Another lucky find were these curtains, they are heavy linen with tab tops and tie backs and bought from the Heart Foundation charity shop for just £10.00. The embroidered edge runs from top to bottom of the curtain.

It’s quite a big room which is why it can double up as a guest room and a studio for me to paint in.  The wallpaper, another find in the pound store, is beige with a hint of peach. It has a grain effect and a slight sheen which looks quite pretty once hung on the wall. For £1.00 per roll it’s not bad. I wanted a plain paper because I intend to hang some of my paintings on the wall and as you can see, there is plenty of empty wall for me to start filling.

I bought the patchwork quilt from a charity shop a while ago and thought it went well with the rest of the room. It a beautiful quilt, very large when not folded back and well worth the £15.00 I paid for it.

This big old built in cupboard used to have a door but I had the door taken off and bought this bead curtain to use instead. The cupboard tends to get very damp with lots of condensation especially in the winter and I thought taking the door off and letting the air circulate would help get rid of the damp problem.

And these are my aloe vera plants lined up in the window. I’m thinking of buying one very large pot and planting them all together, I thought it would be a bit of a centrepiece.

Moving round the room here is the linen covered shelf unit and behind that, my work table. I love those chairs. I rescued them from being thrown out. They are old fashioned school chairs used by the teacher in times gone by, they were destined for the tip before I intervened and bought them home.  The rather exotic orange animal print table covers are made from wipe clean material bought for £3.99 per metre. 1 ½ metres was enough for my work table and the low TV/ DVD table.

And some of the paintings I’m going to hang on the wall.

And that’s my decorating for a while. I’m going to spend a couple of days catching up in the garden and then my daughter is staying for the weekend because it’s her birthday. Once she leaves, I’ll take a few days, maybe a week to potter about in my garden, and then its onto the hallway……….but that will be a quick and easy piece of decorating compared to what I've just done.