Double Glimpse!

Good evening internet.  It's been a busy few weeks in the Elliott household.  We decided to overhaul the dining room somewhat, we've been collecting new furniture gradually so we thought it high time to 'finish the job'.  A tin of paint and a trip to Ikea later and we have a dining room that we're happy with.

We've gone for yellow, which isn't something either of us expected, but that seemed to work (took 40 minutes of staring at colour cards at the Dulux machine to figure that out...)

Secondly...

We've had some fun in the bedroom ;-)

We want to change it right up in there as I've had the same country style pine for donkeys years.  We can't afford to change it all out at the moment so we decided to change the headboard on the bed.  This evolved into full-blown reupholstering the whole bed, and I think it's much better.

Before

After

We used the same principle as this guy, only we 'tufted' our headboard afterwards, which was a bit of a pain in the arse, to be honest.  Last job to do is figure out what to do with the legs.  I wan to cover the tops in the wool, but the Mr wants to stain them black.  I guess it comes down to who has the most free time...

Here are some close ups of todays project...

 Looking forward to a good nights sleep tonight!  For now, though, I need to rest my swollen hand, I fired a thousand staples into that thing, and the electric staplegun kept blowing fuses, so I did it with a manual one.  Ouch.

Lust in the bedroom...

Well, good evening!

At some point in the future we will be looking to change over all of the furniture in the bedroom.  It's my least favorite room in the house.  The furniture I have is good stuff, but not to my grown-up (*ahem*) taste.  I had the furniture bought for me as a young teen, maybe twelve or thirteen, and it's solid pine, country style stuff.  I have been searching for AGES for just the right style.  I think I've found it at Habitat!

(I've cheated a bit, as I already have an Eames RAR, and the lamp and cushion are from John Lewis...)

1.  Original BTC Hector Lamp via John Lewis

2.  Habitat HANA low chest of drawers

3.  John Lewis Geo Cushion

4.  Habitat HANA Bedside Cabinet

5.  Habitat Milton Console Table

6.  Eames Plastic Armchair RAR via The Lollipop Shoppe

7.  Habitat HEDY double bed frame

Enjoy!