Oh I have big ideas! Pity I didn't have the big bank account to match lol. Hopefully the tiling and stuff will be done by this day next week, and then I can accessorise. The wall tiles, as I said, will have to wait...any ideas how to blend in the glaring white tiles with the cream decor in the mean time?
I was thinking maybe I could cover up the grouting with some masking tape (long, tedious job, I know) and spray the tiles with a nice gold/brass acrylic spray paint to match the brass fittings on the bath...then add new white tiles to the new space where I need them, and do the same? Would that work?
We recently re-did our bedroom, from cream and red to cream, brown and gold and it turned out lovely. Got rid of our old furniture to make room for baby's cot and stuff, and got a lovely double wardrobe and vanity unit fitment for the alcove from Argos which only set us back 300 euro and looks like it cost a lot more! Just gave the walls a new lick of creamy paint and bought some brown wallpaper with gold flowers on for the bedhead wall. Spray painted our old black iron wall sconces gold, replaced them and put a nice pine mirror we had lying around the house lengthways over the bed to break up all that brown. Such a big difference, it's really hard to imagine that it's the same space. All in all it cost us perhaps 500 with new fitment, bed, bedding, wallpaper and accessories. Not bad.
Next stop, kids rooms. My son's room is so strange. It has the chimney breast one side, and what looks like another chimney breast on the opposite wall, because my daughter's room has a massive alcove for a wardrobe, that eats into his. Gah...did the architect not think of this?! We have to knock the wall down and rebuild. Poor son has no straight wall in his room to put his bed along...and the little gaps from the alcoves the chimney breast creates,...he keeps falling into them in his sleep lol
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