After doing the box room, and having made a start on the guest room, I simply had to deal with our master bedroom, which was a horrid lilac and purple affair.
The lilac wallpaper was a sod to remove. I wound up using one of those prickly roller scarifiers, which left the substrate all dimpled, like an acne scarred teen. I ought to have bought a steam powered wallpaper remover.
I used Ex-Tex on a corner of the ceiling, which, with its combination of visible taping, heavy Artex texturing, and puce purple colouring, was dizzyingly awful, but it was so neck-ache inducingly painful I gave up. Slathering white paint on, with a roller on a broomstick, was hard enough work. And the effect is a massive improvement.
I intend to put a nice wooden floor in here at one point. But for now the old carpet remains in situ. The walls, once free of the dreaded shiny wallpaper, have been painted a lovely pale bridge, kind of like slipware ceramics in its raw state.
Several mirrors, two sets of homemade bookshelves (one pretty damn good, the other pretty damn bad), two restored chests of drawers, two bedside drawers from Emmaus (these latter look like the two sides of an old desk), our king-sized bed and a similar style third chest of drawers – these two latter items from Ikea – complete the room.
Presently my iMac and printer etc. also live here, the computer atop a bespoke little table I built, especially for this location. These migrated here from the lounge, when we started letting the guest room in AirB&B. I really want to move them out, provahly into the box room, as I hate the background noise pollution if whirring disc-drives, and random middle if the night printer cleaning cycles.
Other unwanted clutter includes an exercise bike we no longer use, and the loft-access stepladder. Reference to this last item prepares the way for another archival post, re. the flooring and insulation I put down in the loft. It’d be nice to one day get a dedicated drop down ladder installed, do we could have the stepladder out of our bedroom, once and for all!