Hiphopsideproject

Whilst we were away, our workforce put the new carpets down in the bedrooms. The carpets are pretty plain, due to the fact that we wanted to keep the rooms bright and not fussy with permanent decor (read, we’re hanging lots of art), also because the house has bled us dry we managed to get two fabulous roll ends for the small sum of £180. These have covered both the bedrooms with extra bits left over (which may or may not go into the small room, depending on how much may be left from the stair carpet).

Complete with ikea kitchen drawers. Also, that cabinet used to be in our lounge, but I think the wood colour goes really well with the blue, don’t you?

New landing light fitting. It’s bigger than we thought, and quite fussy – I like it though!

New bath! With tap, wow, taps are expensive! We bought the bathroom tiles this weekend, too. But that’s an exciting secret :)

Well, we got the keys to our new house today! Adam took my camera with him this morning to get some photos of how it looked to start. Since then my Dad, Adam and his brother have been working all day ripping the place out. There aren’t many carpets left, the horrid polystyrene ceiling tiles have gone from most rooms, a random fire has been taken out of the kitchen (along with half of the cabinets) and the master bedroom has had this giant inbuilt wardrobe monstrosity taken out. All in all a damn good days work from the guys! I went over after work and ripped a few chunks of wallpaper off the walls in the kitchen :)

My Dad’s heading to the tip with a tonne of the stuff tomorrow, too, but hopefully the rest of the kitchen should be out and maybe even the old skirting boards off. Adam and I will be headed to ikea tomorrow to make final arrangments for our kitchen and (fingers crossed!) get a completed design and perhaps buy it :O Madness, it’s gunna be the best kitchen ever, orange walls eeee!

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Katie mentioned on her blog about these fantastic Rob Ryan cut-outs that have been transformed into vinyl wall art. I think they’re absolutely delicious! And, the bottom teal coloured one is the exact same colour teal that we’re going for in the bedroom of our new house – fate! Did I ever tell you that I got the rob ryan book for just £2 from the cheap bookshop? book purchase of the century.

How about a mario themed room? And I don’t mean like, a duvet cover and lamp shade…

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Since moving into our new place, we’ve dedicated our cuckoo-clock wall (well, the area surrounding the clock) to animal art! I’ve been looking for some interesting, budget, prints & pieces to fill the area and came across these delicious Australian bird collage prints:

Since Adam’s spent a lot of time in Australia this past few months (around 8 weeks?) working at telescopes, I think some Australian birds might be quite nice!