From nasty basement to super guest room!

The house has 2 rooms downstairs! quite dark and really nasty and horrible when first viewed! One we have turned into a super workshop and will be a gym for Rich and I when we bring over the equipment from Spain.

The other room had the most horrible chip board on the ceiling hiding the massive beams. A fireplace that was just full of bricks and rubble! Broken window and damp mud walls really made this a no go area!

However, we had family and friends due to stay for 2 weeks in the summer and we needed a spare room. I had bought a tent and we had the camper van but the temperatures had risen alot and at least the room below felt nice and cool! Could we do a basic fixup and get it at least livable for the kids!

Tall order but I like a challenge,so I bought a massive tin of white paint and a bag of plaster to fill the gaps made by the new wiring!

Day one and I started to plaster the walls, Radio 2 in the background keeping me happy until the battery died in the ipad! I decided to finish the wall I was working on so carried on. Rich was snoozing in the lounge above me and I then started to hear the running around of tiny feet!

Thinking it was the tiny dogs I ran upstairs to get them away so he could sleep! Hmmm no dogs in the room! So what was the bloody noise then?

Rich pulling and breaking the horrible wood! 

Back down I go and bang my brush on the ceiling! well I nearly pooed my pants as the noise above me was a tad scary and I was sure the little buggers would jump out of the wood and start to eat me! I could tell by the noise this was not little mice and not only one!

First hole made, what a nasty job! 

So down came the wooden ceiling! this job was nasty and dirty and the ceiling was full of maybe 30 years of walnut shells and rat poo! Yuch dropping all over us! Even worse than stripping chip wall paper and that is saying alot!

Ready for the attack of the rat! 

Well as you can see we both worked super hard and if I say so myself the room is lovely! Ivo the bear even brought me some lovely dishes to put in the little alcove next to the old fireplace.

Dirty horrible fireplace before!

Lovely feature of the room now and the old bread tool in place! 

yuch!

Very swish!

Where to start?

What a massive difference?

Lovely view onto the garden!

Ivo and Ani pot gift! 

Not a bed place to rest your head! 

Mums hearts xxx

Mum here is the perfect place for the hearts you have bought me over the years! Next summer I think we will move down here as its the coolest and quietest place in the whole house.