A Bit Of Decorating

Yesterday was a stressful morning we were waiting for BB’s secondary placement, he eventually got his first choice.

But we had no email before school and Boo spent most of the morning in tears as he is currently trailing a dairy free diet and didn’t like anything that was given to him yesterday morning.

Once I finally got them both into school I then dropped my phone on the way out of school, luckily only smashing the screen cover, but the phone isn’t that old and that really stressed me out.

So by the time I got home I had really had enough.

I needed to tidy the house but when I walked in and saw the wallpaper that I have hated for ages now I decided that rather than tidy I needed to get the wallpaper of the wall and the lounge sorted into a room I actually liked again.

So that’s exactly what I did.

I messaged Mr L this picture, his response was that there had better be a space to sit by the time he got home.

By lunch time the wall was stripped and the paint was on and I had done two coats and it was ready to move all the room back and get reorganised.

I spent most of the day trying to work out where to put our huge sofa and finally settled on a slight change how it used to be.

It really hasn’t been a huge change.

I moved the sofa slightly and I have changed some pictures around and have removed the wallpaper and painted the wall the same colour as all the other walls in the lounge.

Not a huge difference.

But the whole feel of the room has changed.

It feels fresh.

It feels cosier.

And it is a much nicer space to be in.

And it was all done in a day, with the extra paint that we already had at home and has cost us nothing!

It was also a perfect way to destress yesterday.

It was the turning point from a bad morning to a good day.

BB got his first choice of secondary, Boo ate his new food, and I got a new screen protector for my phone!

And we all got a lovely new space to chill in!