Bathroom Redecoration Project: Part One!!

 

Hiya guys!  How are you all doing?  Hope you've all had a great week!

 

So, if you can remember, a few weeks ago I did a post giving you tips to help decorate a room.  Well, this week I thought I would sort of expand on that and actually focus on a room in my house!

 

Well, not that long ago my dad decided that the bathroom had to be redone as it had been a while since it has been done up - I can't actually remember when!  Anyway, to be honest we (my family and I) aren't ones to redecorate every year or two.  We prefer to have something done that is going to last a while until it definitely needs to be done again!

 

I have to say before I properly get into this post that this will just be the first stage of the bathroom redecoration project!  With Christmas coming up, and with work commitments and everything, this project will take a wee while to complete, but hopefully it will be all finished in the first half of 2015!

 

For the moment, this post will show you what I have done for the first part of the project - the research stage.

 

Well, so far what has happened is...the wallpaper has been taken off the walls revealing painted plaster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, there are quite a few cracks and holes in the wall from removing the paper.  What was under the paper though is quite a nice green colour...and quite a few scribbles that my sister and I did when we were younger!

 

This is all that has been done for the moment.  My dad did ask about decorating the room - with how to fix the walls before painting etc.  This was a while back though and I didn't really know what to do if I'm being really honest.  I did a bit of research about it and I thought this would be a good project to do since starting up my blog!  This way I can post updates on how it is coming along!

 

And so, to start this project, I spoke to the family to see what we all wanted the bathroom to look like, to get an idea about colour schemes etc.

 

I then made a colour/mood board!

 

If you don't know what a mood board is you can have a look at my earlier post 'Stuck on how you want to decorate a room? Here's a wee design tip that can help you get your ideas together!'

 

A mood board will help us see what kind of colours, textures we could use in the room.

 

 

 

Basically, to start with I picked images from magazines and from Pinterest and stuck them down on to the card.

 

You don't have to use magazines or websites that are specifically for interior decoration.  You can get inspiration from anywhere and anything - from the design of a perfume bottle to the colours from a video game cover and the look of certain fabric - anything!

 

This is the mood board I created with the project brief that the family came up with.

 

 

 

So far they think this is good, and we are finally getting on our way to starting this project.  Of course I will keep you all informed on how it is all going.  I'll most likely be tweeting about the progress of the project - you know, the things that are too small for a blog post.  Therefore if you haven't followed me yet...the link to my social media pages are on the right of the page.  So all you lovely people, please add, like, follow me...it would be much appreciated! :)

 

Without taking up any more of your time this with this post - I realise it has been more like an essay - I will say cheerio for now!

 

Oh, before I forget, if any of you have any tips for filling cracks and holes in bathroom walls and what to use etc. please leave me a wee comment, either in the comments below or on Facebook or Twitter!  That would actually be fab!!  It would be good to hear from people who have done this before.

 

Okay, okay...that's me!  Have a good week and I'll speak to you all next Sunday!  Until then...see ya!