An online scrapbook for my ideas, thoughts, progress and challenges while I go through the process of cleaning up my Library (aka junk room), renovating it, and then switching it with my bedroom!
All these ideas in my head need an outlet before my head explodes, or I just plain forget what I'm working towards.
My Scrapbook
The wardrobes and area above them are now done, and the things (basically just soft toys) that need to be sorted are stored in pretty boxes. Plus my ornaments have somewhere to go now.
I managed to get the whole of the side wall, which had patches of various coloured paint on it, undercoated to even it out… but all that white space was freaking me out, so I had to hang a couple of pictures to break it up. I haven’t had off-white walls for more than 10 years… D:
The wall still needs serious repair before I do the painting proper. Hopefully within the next couple of weeks, it’ll get done.
To get back to this project! yes, the room is nice, and it’s definitely liveable, but it needs to be finished off!
Colour selection - either Champion/Petite Purple:
Or Champion/Immortal:
Or possibly Champion/Lavender Earl:
Of course, they’ll look different in real life to on screen, but they go well together, all being from the same hue set. It really just depends on how dark I decide I want the majority of the room to be.
Bedroom - almost done! Wall repair and painting, picture hanging, and decorating to be done, but that seems like nothing after all the work of cleaning the place out!
Library - getting there!
There are still many books to be shelved, so at some point a better shelving system will be needed. Also, my art studio part of the room no longer fits. Well, poop. But I’m quite happy to have most of my books in the one place! :)
This week:
scrape varnish from wardrobessand wardrobeschoose tarot/oracle cardsget glue off wall!!
Next week:
get cards copied and laminatedclean down wardrobes- paint wall above wardrobes
- reorganise toys on top of wardrobes
paint wardrobes
ASAP:
- get plasterboard and filler
- repair walls
- sand walls
- wash walls
- paint walls
DON’T LET IT SLIDE!!!!
- get the last globs of glue off the wall
strip the varnish off the wardrobes- get filler and fix up walls
- get gyprock and fix big hole
- screw bed head into place
- wash walls
- paint walls
- sand wardrobes
- paint wardrobes
move in furniture: chest; chair; bookshelf & cubes when they come from Liana’ssort clothes and linens- sort the stuff I’m keeping
- organise storage
- get tarot cards copied; laminate; hang on wardrobe doors
- frieze of cards (blu-tac)
- position and hang pictures
- place other decorations
I got the room organised to a liveable level, and then put it on the backburner! NO, this wasn’t the plan!! I’m supposed to be fixing it up all gorgeous for myself because I deserve a lovely room to suit my lovely personality!!
Walls need repair so I can move on to painting. I was going to paint and not worry too much about fixing the screw holes and things in the walls, but I realised I really do want to make a proper job of it instead of half-arsing it.
Next trip to town, I *need* to go to Bunnings and get plaster filler and sand paper.
I also need to go through the cupboards and figure out just what painting tools I currently have, and what sort of condition they’re in.
I need to paint before I can move the rest of the furniture in.
I need to move the rest of the furniture in before I can organise my clothes and the things I’m keeping after The Big Sort.
I need to move the donation stuff out from under the bed and *maybe* into the lounge room so I can sort it out for the market. And I need to do that before I paint, so I can move the bed around easily.
MUST KEEP ON THIS PROJECTTTT!!!!!
*slaps self upside head*
(I also need to get on with setting up the Library properly. Yish.)
Pelmet:
2cm x 12cm - 120 x 2; 14 x 2 (= 268cm)
Bookshelf:
2cm x 12cm - 207 x 2; 56 x 9 (= 918cm)
Total = 1186cm
