Renovation - Master Bedroom
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This is the master bedroom at the front of the house, another room which had a lot of work done to it. Initially the room had a filthy, matted, bright red carpet, peeling wallpaper, curtained alcove, damp walls and a rotten, worm-ridden floor. Not the sort of place I would have liked to have slept personally! In all honest it looked and felt like a room from some sort of run down B&B that hadn’t been decorated since 1973.
I took out the awful carpet immediately (I hate to think what was living in it!) and also ripped out the fitted wardrobe to one side of the chimney breast. The ceiling in the room had been renewed to an existing ceiling whilst the wardrobe was in which meant I had to fit a piece of plasterboard in place to make the levels match. I did a total of five patches like this in the house and this being the first one I did, making it up as I went along, I made a bit of an arse of it!
The builders then ripped all the plaster off the exterior wall which was shot, lined the wall and fit new plasterboard. They also planned to replace the floorboards which had the most woodworm in but the floor, but in Geoff’s own words the floor “disintegrated when he investigated it” so as you can see from the photo below half the floor ended up being replaced. This room was treated for woodworm along with the rest of the upstairs of the house; there wasn’t evidence of woodworm in any of the other rooms but while the carpets were all up Geoff offered to spray the floors just in case.
I then set about stripping the anaglypta off the remaining walls and making them as good as possible. One wall in there is full of huge gouge marks and holes, I really can’t work out how it got like that. Armloads of polyfilla and caulk went onto it and it’s not too bad now but I’m not happy with it really.
I painted the ceiling and undercoated the whole room white to freshen it up ready for painting.
I painted three of the walls with Dulux ‘Coral Canyon 1’ mixed paint which is a light orange to try and hide some of the lumps and bumps. The new plaserboard wall I painted magnolia to balance out the orange.
I also fit a new light, new light switch and electrical, telephone and ethernet sockets.
Finally I laid ‘Washed Maple’ laminate floor edged with maple scotia. Laminating round the doorway was a bit of a bugger, both bedroom floors extend beyond their thresholds to meet the top of the stairs so the laminate actually runs right under the door which looks unavoidably odd.
