The room swap - halted

As you can see, nothing has really changed in the study room since I wrote about swapping Robbie's room with the study room.

This room isn't always so neat either. Today was a good day.

Here are the plans I previously mentioned for the room swap:

A room swap & plans for Robbie's new bedroom

Robbie's current bedroom doesn't have as much natural light as the study room and after recently discovering a bit of dampness on that side of the house I have decided it will be best to swap his bedroom with the study room. It is also a good opportunity to freshen up both rooms and give them an updated look.

Here are the plans for Robbie's new room and it has his seal of approval. It has been fun involving him in the process this time around. Many items are existing but I will be purchasing a few new special items for him as well.

Feathers

Some people have asked me about the feathers in my last post. It is something I picked up during my trip away. I saw it hanging in Our Corner Store and loved the way it curled so elegantly to the ground from a hook on the wall. Just need to find the perfect spot to hang it in my home.

Uh oh.

The Study

I have been having a bit of fun with the study!

Once upon a time it was a boring box of a room with a rather interesting light shade:

Trying to keep organised

I am finding with this course I am studying that I am collecting a lot of.. stuff. Pens, pencils, papers, rulers and I am now a new owner of a set square and T-square. Please don't ask me how to set them up because I have no idea yet!


Off to the right of the study desk that I have posted a bazillion times these last few days (sorry) is a built-in wardrobe that I am using to store my materials as well some of Robert's toys (it is amazing at how many toys this little boy has!). I am trying to keep organised but I find it never usually lasts very long and things become scattered around the house over time.

Is there a trick to keeping organised?

PS: Thank you to Helena of A Diary of Lovely who recently asked me to share the space I blog from and I shared these photos with her readers. Also, thank you to Sarah of My First Little Place for the little interview. Please feel free to pop over and have a read.

Covering a lamp shade

I visited Signature Prints again over the weekend. The store now has a large wall-mounted rack with all the different wallpaper rolls hanging from it. So lovely to see the entire wallpaper collection in this way.

This is the best photo I could take of the shimmery gold outline of the wallpaper I mentioned last week

I picked up a large off cut of fabric some of which I used to cover this old lamp originally in my son's room and some of which I will use for another project. I followed this tutorial by olive & joy but I cheated and covered straight over the original shade instead of starting with a new base.

It is really quick and simple to do and a nice way of updating old lamps I think.

How was your weekend? Did you work on any projects around the home?

Hanging wallpaper

I can cross one project off the list - hang wallpaper in the study. I worked on it over the weekend. I started at 8pm after Robert had gone to sleep and finished it at 1am. 5 hours.

Although I think I could have finished it earlier if I hadn't been distracted by the contents of the refrigerator.


This room also stores a lot of Robert's toys and there is this bookcase on the other side of the room. I have a few ideas for this space which I will keep you updated on as it is by no means finished.


What do you think of the pattern? I was a little nervous at first but I'm really happy it and in the mornings, the sun catches the gold outlines of the flowers and really brings it to life. I wish I could capture it in photos to show you.

Would you be interested in a little step-by-step of the hanging process?

P.S. If you would like to see a before photo of the room please see here.

The bookcase

Every so often (rarely) I get a burst of energy to tidy up the bookcase. This weekend was one of those moments. The aim was to make it kid friendly so we bolted the bookcase to the wall and devoted some space for Robert's toys.

While I was in the mood, I also covered the back of the bookcase with wrapping paper. I realised afterwards that I should have covered wood or board with paper first and then attached it to the back of the bookcase to give it a hard backing because the bookcase doesn't sit flush to the wall. I might do that this week so that holes aren't poked through the paper

How was your weekend? What did you get up to?

I tried (bookcase organisation)

Along with many others we own an Expedit bookcase. The plan was for my husband and I to grow our teeny tiny book collection together and fill the bookcase over time. These days we barely have time to dress ourselves in the morning let along read books so the collection is still teeny tiny. Instead, we use the bookcase to dump the contents of our pockets and store blankets and cushions which is why we have all those boxes.

The other day I tried fancying it up with fabric and adding a few display pieces and photos to fill it up but it is too styled for my liking. I much prefer my dream of growing our book collection one day and adding to it our son's favourite books (the ones that survive being torn apart that is). I wouldn't style it or arrange the books by colour - just a nice random collection of well worn and much loved books.

That painting

Remember that painting?

Inspired by this Bob Collins fabric found in Domino - The Book of Decorating (and which I think I scanned upside down... oops).



It's finished.


And hanging in the study.