My craft room-to- be (or the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!!!)

First, a typical little boy's bedroom, that a teenager has grown out of!! Don't you just love the carpet, and the fake pine desk!!!! Now that was the 'Bad' !
Would you like to see the 'Good' ?

Like me, I'm sure that most of you love looking through Home & Interior magazines, catalogues such as Laura Ashley, and Cath Kidston, also the lovely blogs around, to get inspiration for your own homes. To sit with the latest mag, and a cuppa, is heaven indeed.

This first pic is from the summer Laura Ashley catalogue. I really love the look of the shabby cream painted furniture, and the bold, contrasting red gingham, and floral fabrics, and you don't have to spend a fortune.

A tin of undercoat, eggshell, and some sandpaper can transform car boot, junkshop, and local tip finds. Red gingham is inexpensive to buy, and other red floral or ticking fabrics, can be used with it. It's good to see plants as an accent to it, the green looks really fresh, and 'lifts' the whole colour scheme.

I love this cute little girl's room too. Really girly, and pretty. That quilt is beautiful!! Those flowers would be easy to stencil on the wall, and the bedroom furniture could quite easily be old items, transformed with paint again. A lovely touch, is the bunting, which can be cheaply made from scraps of left over fabric

This one, well, it almost makes you want to iron!! ( I did say almost!!!!) This is very inspirational, and shows what can be done with a metre or so of pretty floral fabric.

Now, after all this interior prettiness, I want to show you something not so pretty!! SHOCK HORROR!!!!!!! Here is the 'Ugly'!!

My spare room, which is going to be my craft room. It was Callum's room since he was around two. When big sis left home. he moved into her larger room, and his room, was a junk room for a while. It only measures about 9 feet x 7 feet, so we had a loft bed in there to give him more space.

The junk has gone, the Harry Potter border has been stripped. I now need to sell the loft bed to someone. It looks empty, cold, and like a prison cell at the moment!!

This is the room that will be my craft room. I can't wait to see it transformed!! Although it is small, it is a bright sunny little room, and it will be fantastic to have my sewing machine in here, my fabric, and all my craft bits....not forgetting a little hifi I have , to provide music while I work. I so want to see it 'prettied up', and say goodbye to the horrible yellow, and blue! It is something I have wanted for years, my own little craft den. Quite a bit of work needs doing, and I thought it would be interesting to share the transformation with you!!

WATCH THIS SPACE !!!!