So that's why the bedroom looked so full...

That is a picture of all the boxes which I took out of the bedroom earlier (and dumped in the living room). The bedroom has been our 'dumping room' since we moved in (we're sleeping in the study), and sorting it out is a task we've been putting off for ages. Obviously, had I realised that the majority of the stuff was empty boxes maybe we'd've got on with it earlier ;)

A lot of the rest is cases or bags of clothes which we can't finish unpacking until we decide exactly where the bedroom furniture is going to go (because the wardrobe is bloody heavy enough without being filled). So yes, you can guess what we did after. After much deliberation and attempting to measure 2 metres with a 1.5 metre tape measure (although did you know my arm span with closed fists is 1.5m? Fascinating) we've figured out where our hypothetical bed will go, and moved things accordingly. And... yeah... we'll probably just dump the stuff back in the dumping - sorry, bedroom later ;)

But it's a start.

In the above picture you can just about make out the curtain I made (well, I cut the fabric off at the right point) for one of the windows in the living room (the other window already had a blind over it). We used one of those extendable pole things as there was no curtain rail, so the fabric had to be lightweight. And match the interesting decor the previous tenants had decided upon for the living room (gunmetal grey on 3 walls).

There is a curtain rail up in the study, and as we were sleeping in there I had to make some curtains pretty much as soon as we moved in. I didn't have enough thick fabric to do a matching set, nor did I have any plastic things to attach the curtains to the rail, but who cares - I think they're fun!

(look - my desk... and it's tidy!)





In a way it's best we're still sleeping in the study, as the bedroom has a huge window and no curtain rail. The window is far too wide to have one of those telescopic rails as thick curtains to block out the light would be too heavy, so we'll have to screw a rail in.

And our toilet paper mountain has solved any immediate curtaining issues in the bathroom: