Bedroom Renovations | An Update On The Chatham House

Would you believe it's been an entire year since we moved into The Chatham House? As it's been some time since I last shared any progress of the house, I thought I'd show you what's been happening with our bedroom renovations. Firstly, the one decorating task I absolutely love doing turned into the biggest chore of our lives. Stripping wallpaper. I have no idea what paste the previous owners who put all that lining paper up actually used, but let's just say it was something close to super strength super glue. Wow. No amount of turning the room into a sauna and attacking the walls with super sharp strippers could get it to budge. And you know that where there's wallpaper, there's usually a whole host of blown out plaster? Yep, that. Take a look at what lurked beneath...Once we'd knocked out all the blown out plaster, we got a fascinating look into the past - right back to the old brick and timber structure and some of the original horsehair plaster. I really do find that fascinating! Unfortunately, what we weren't quite ready for is the howling gale the lack of plaster between the walls and loft above created during the night as it blew tiny bits of rubble onto the floor.It took the plasterer all of one day to smooth off the walls, seriously impressive. It's a little touch-and-go with parts of the walls where the polystyrene coving was as there are still a few small gaps. He recommended we get more coving. You can imagine what I said to that...But anyway, this is how its been looking since April - admittedly I used an upcoming collaboration for 91 Magazine's spring issue with IKEA to get the walls done, using that blushing plaster as the perfect backdrop for the project. I turned a corner of our room into a workspace for me and gave the rest of the space an update more fitting to our style. We've really loved keeping the walls bare and honestly, I'm reluctant to pick a permanent colour right now. I change my mind constantly between plaster pink, pale grey and mid-blue. The next task will be to sand back and stain the floors with a light white wash to bring out the grain and I'd like to paint the sash windows to blend with the wall colour. When we eventually get round to choosing. Oh, and I've never painted sashes before - should I get the pros in? What do you think?Want to keep up to date on our house renovations? Follow #thechathamhouse on social media and check out The Chatham House Pinterest board for more inspiration...Photography & Styling © Tiffany Grant-Riley