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The project:
To ensure that my children could not move back home (haha), I transformed a small upstairs, unnecessary bedroom in my Townhouse to create an enticing open plan living space. After removing the built-in robe and front wall of the bedroom, adding plantation shutters, wainscotting and beautiful wallpaper, it has opened up the entire top floor of my home. This has created a sense of space, warmth elegance and style to what was otherwise, a very boring and closed off space. All work was done by myself and as a single middle-aged woman, I'm very happy with what I have achieved and how it turned out.
- Materials:
All purchased from Bunnings:
Easy As Plantation Shutters for window
Wallpaper & wallpaper paste
Ceiling Fan (Lucci Air)
Easycraft Wall panels and timber trims
Paint for Wall Panels (in Lexicon White)
Liquid adhesives for wall panels
New skirting boards, architraves and trims
- Tools:
Most of my power tools are from the Ozito range (cordless drills, reciprocating saw, circular saw, jigsaw). Hand saws were also used.
Shutters were easily installed using screwdriver or cordless drill
Obviously, a level was imperative.
Circular saw used to cut panels that could not be installed as full piece.
Mitre saw used to cut corner edges of timber trim.
All painting equipment (rollers, brushes, stirrers, trays, and paint)
- Step 1:
The first thing I did was to install the plantation shutter in the window frame.
- Step 2:
The built-in robe was next to be removed
- Step 3:
I then began to start the wall panelling. It had to be cut and shaped to fit around the window and some panels had to be cut around power points, or to fit the length of the wall.
- Step 4:
The electrician came and installed the ceiling fan (only thing I didn't do myself) and removed any wiring from the original wall. The fun part of tearing the wall down then came next. This began to really open the space up and the project really started coming to life.
- Step 5:
Then it was on to finishing off the panelling, adding the trims and painting.
- Step 6:
The wallpapering came next, along with repainting the ceiling. It was then time to start filling the room up.
- Step 7:
After putting new architraves and panels onto the frame of the open space, new skirting boards all round and fretwork into the corners of the frame of the open living space, the room reno was complete (except for new carpet which I could not do myself. I had this done by professionals).
