Bedroom 1

In June 2021, as we moved in, the main bedroom was a cluttered mess and not very welcoming. It was so different once it had been cleared. There is a dormer window that looks right over to the Isle of Bute, just 400m away from our shore, a great view. 

We again painted the whole room white and removed the storage heaters. Our half-tester bed fits but the ceiling is too low for the half-tester canopy and drapes (or so we thought). We may raise the ceiling if we have enough funds at the end. We also need to remove the woodchip paper someday too. We may also put wardrobes into the huge eaves we have on both sides of the upstairs rooms.

We have put thermal curtains in, the same colour as the lounge so that when we change the windows in the lounge to sliding windows and need an extra pair of curtains there we can use these. If we can't get the same colour and type any longer we then just need to change the bedroom curtains at a lesser expense and not all the lounge curtains. We also put in some offcuts of a carpet we had at The Kennels in Suffolk. I got these pieces bound on the edges and, until we finish this room and put proper carpeting in place, they do as rugs to help keep our feet off the bare boards.

The main bedroom was started upon towards the end of the project and we moved into the second bedroom upstairs, with all the furniture from the first bedroom. The wardrobe was dismantled and replaced in front of the window overlooking the church. Both king-size beds were dismantled and propped up behind the wardrobe. Bed bases were stored, alongside wardrobes and bedside tables and chests of drawers. Mattresses were piled up on top of each other and became the new bed, with the Duvalays (sort of sleeping bags with a memory foam inbuilt mattress) from the campervan brought in to be the bedding of choice for a few weeks. This proved to be very soft and squishy as a bed base but hey-ho, it's how we rock.