MR and I have been making a few changes to our country house, now that his parents have retired and moved and we are getting ready to move in. We haven't yet bought it from them but have been given free reign at changing whatever we like.
Originally, the first thing we discussed changing were the curtains in the master bedroom. They are a lovely pink floral number. Followed by painting the bedroom, which is white but has a wallpaper strip running around it about three quarters of the way up the wall. A bedroom is such a personal thing and we thought that by changing that it would feel more like our place.
Instead, we've ended up painting the living area. It's finished but that post is going to have to wait because MR rolled the walls after I have left, so although I have seen a photo he took, I haven't seen the entire finished job. It'll be a bit of a surprise when I head up there in a couple of weeks.
So for now, I thought I'd share a small touch I made.
Seeing as we are currently running two households, half of the furniture at the country house is MR's parents; stuff they didn't want or can't fit in to their temporary place while they consider what they are going to build. This makes it so difficult because it means the place doesn't really feel like ours. But we can't go buying new furniture for it because 1) we have a houseful of furniture here to fit in first and 2) we can't afford it.
So little things it is. But only little things we don't already have in the city house. The country house has a little powder room, which had a horridly stained pink towel and a soap dispenser that has been decoupaged with a decorated serviette. Need I say more?
I went to Myer and they had 30% off bathroom stuff so I bought a nice new soap dispenser and two lovely dark navy hand towels that will not show up dirty hand prints when MR comes home from work with diesel and dirt all over him. All for less than $40. And doesn't it look so much better already? The basin colour is more of the cream in the left photo than the pink in the right (those photos were taken about a minute apart, goodness knows why the colours are so different). I'd love to be able to paint and get a new tiles, basin and bench in here as well, but those small touches make it more acceptable until we can get to that part.
2 comments:
Its the little things that make a house a home afterall so its things like linen and coushins, maybe some art on the walls that will make the home yours. You can work out the furniture after. Definately no light colours with the working lad around! Patterns hide a magnitude of sins!!
That's so hard! I must find that a place never really feels like ours until we own it because I've done basically nothing to make this rental much nicer other than take down curtains to let more light in.
I wish I had hopped on gumtree earlier though and gotten some couches we don't hate though after seeing how cheaply we could have replaced the current ones we've lived with and hated for far too long!
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