renovation alert

We have promised for a long time that at the end of grade seven Annika could have a room renovation.  We said she could choose her own paint etc, and paint over the yellow I chose for the room when she was one.

Original room.  When she was a baby there were bumblebees and flowers on the purple wall frieze.  Cute.  But probably not for a TEENAGER (ok minor freakout that I am going to have a teenager in the house. Breathe.  Mask the anxiety by re-doing her room and maybe it will all go away).

The time has come.
(Honestly, you turn your back and children grow and all of a sudden they are in grade seven and demanding fulfillment on promises made about rooms).

Down comes the yellow.  Yes we let the girls kick in some of the old plaster walls.  I did some with a hammer as well.  Supremely satisfying.  Then I got thighs of steel by carrying all the plaster outside to the ute up and down the stairs.

In goes the insulation in the walls.

Then we had it re-sheeted and re-plastered.  No photos yet....

Stay tuned for awesome teenage room renovation.

It will not look like this:

or this:

Mostly because these bedrooms are really clean.  Do actual children live in these?  Do they have clothes?  Or tiny bits of paper that are "craft"?  Or school stuff?  Or half completed lego?  I scoff at these designer bedrooms.

Scoff.