Home Blessings :: A New Hallway

Hello Lovelies! I hope that you are all keeping safe and well. We are all well, healthy and keeping busy. My girls have now both finished their first year on uni. Miss Jess handed in her final assignment today. It’s a bit of a mixed blessing because they’ve had something to keep them busy up to now. With things remaining largely in lockdown I think they may get a little bord. But never fear…I have lots of home-decor plans they can get involved with!

With B & Q now open and lots of time on our hands, it’s time to indulge in a bit of home decorating. Our home is very neutral at the moment and although I like neutral it needs to be a little fun and elegant at the same time. 

I’m loving a chic grey pallet with pops of colour every so often.  

From the moment we stepped into this hallway during our first viewing it was just crying out to be turned into a statement entry. I’ve been absolutely loving the deep scandi blues for quite a while now and thought that it would be perfect in this part of the house. The hall, passages and staircase walls are all covered in a very beige textured wallpaper. It’s neutral and very boring! It’s going to take an epic job to get all the wallpaper off so we have decided to do it in stages. Yesterday I woke up and after scrolling through inspirational home pics on Instagram I determined that it was time to get the hallway done.

It took all morning to strip off the wallpaper and prepare the walls. I’m always a little wary when it comes to stripping wallpaper as there are usually some not-so-lovely hidden surprises to deal with. On the whole, our walls were okay although there were a few polyfiller moments and even now after the makeover my husband will have to fill in the imperfections that have shown up post-paint come the weekend.

After a quick lunch and a cup of tea, I was ready for the fun part…painting. At this point, Miss Jess decided to lend a hand and did all the boring edging work for me while I got busy with the roller.

The end result…

I absolutely love it! I still have to paint all the skirting and door frames again as I want the white to really pop. 

This little table needs replacing too – it’s a temporary fix. I’ve found a lovely hallway table online but we’ve agreed to get that at the end of the month after all the money we’ve invested at B & Q this month 😂.

Next project will be my office/craft room. Right now it is plastered with a rather insipid green wallpaper and is just not the most inspirational of places. I have a lovely grey paint which will provide a great backdrop to pops of colour from handcrafted knits and crochet projects. White cube shelving will help hide away all my yarn, fabric and dye supplies as well as the household linen which is currently stacked on ugly shelves – I’ll have to provide a before and after pic in that post – I can’t bring myself to just share a before pic 😂.

What are you doing to keep yourselves busy whilst ‘grounded’? I’d love to know.

Blessings to you all today.

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