Molly's Bedroom Inspiration.

Our first major project is Molly's bedroom.

She's our priority and she still asks for her old bedroom 'When will we move back to our old house?' it breaks my heart. I think she liked how decorated it was, all fairy lights and pretty. Her bedroom looked like this. I rearranged it a few times after I took these pictures, but it was a very pretty room.

I want it to be a room she can grow up in and change without having to have the whole thing repainted every two years. Jamie would like it to be less sugary. I was very disappointed when we painted her last one this white with a hint of pink and it dried into such an IM PINK shade. But we never got around to re-doing it and it stayed, and Molly loved it. Her main request is for a rainbow room with lots of pink. I have an idea how I'm going to get around that on.. I think!

Anyhow above is the mood board, below is her current set up in our bedroom while we get hers insulated and plastered. She's loving 'sleeping over' ha!

Home tour// Living Room.

We've been living in our home for over two years now, we had our offer accepted when Molly was just two weeks old and moved in May 2011. I always planned to do before and after posts on my blog but never got around to it. Over the two years we've rearranged everything a lot but I've never been happy enough to do the 'after' photographs. 

We decorated the living room the day we moved in. I still love the colours, green and slate grey, though I do wish I'd painted the fireplace white rather than the off-white which looks almost lilac against the grey. We still haven't put up any pictures despite my new years resolution, all we have is the canvas my sister in law had made of our hands for Christmas, so we really need to get some framed. 

We recently moved the televsion from the corner near the window to the wall opposite the sofa. This has made SUCH a difference. The room feels huge now! Molly now has her own play corner, which she thanked us all for when it was done, bless her. We're planning on getting her a play kitchen for Christmas (shh don't tell her!) to go in it. I'm so excited to see her little face! We're thinking that an arm chair might go nicely in front of the clock bookshelf which will cosy up the room a little more and create more of a divide between the play area and the seating space. I'd still love a rug, but I'm terrified the dog will 'mark it' so I'm holding out on that just yet. 

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