{"id":687,"date":"2016-08-10T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/?p=687"},"modified":"2020-07-30T04:06:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T04:06:18","slug":"2594858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/reading\/2594858","title":{"rendered":"One Year On\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today marks a year since we moved in to our forever home, and it\u2019s been one hell of a year! I\u2019m still surprised at how much we\u2019ve done to this place, and I wanted to celebrate our hard work with a few before and after photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of these snaps you have seen before, but I thought I\u2019d pop them all in one place so you can have a look through all at once. I\u2019d also really recommend watching the below vlog, which was filmed a year ago \u2013 what a difference! I wish I had taken more photos of the flat all empty, but it looked pretty ugly ha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Living Room<\/strong>
This room has had a huge makeover, it went from being my least favourite room to my favourite \u2013 I just love this space! It went from being so yellow and old, to looking bright and fresh \u2013 and it\u2019s not even a room we spent a lot of money on. I feel like this room really sums up Jordan and I, it\u2019s fun, colourful, has quite a musical theme and is generally a lovely room to be in.
Before we even moved in, I painted the walls white \u2013 they were a magnolia shade \u2013 and then later on we worked on painting all the woodwork white. This made a huge difference, and it\u2019s now so much brighter. Spending a bit of money on furniture and nice homeware also made a huge difference, and the only thing I plan to do in here is to remove the ceiling fan (wow, 80s) and replace it with a nice light fitting, sand down the floors, put a door on one of the cupboards and replace the gas fireplace with a cast iron one. Not huge jobs, but not exactly priorities right now either. Here\u2019s my living room tour on YouTube, if you haven\u2019t already seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Office<\/strong>
My office has been quite easy to update, although you can see it was pretty gross. It did have white floors when we moved in, but they hadn\u2019t been done well (there was a huge patch in the middle of the room that hadn\u2019t been painted) and so we have painted them twice and we also painted the walls white too. You can see how the desk was, I think I was in denial at this point \u2013 there was no way my belongings were ever going to fit on such a small space. I have a double desk now, which works way better!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Bedroom<\/strong>
I think this is the room that has had the most work done to it \u2013 when we bought it, it had a huge crack in the plaster on one of the walls. We had to get it taken off and replastered, then painted. We also painted the floorboards white, as they were a hideous dark blue! Gah this room was just so disgusting, but we turned it around. I\u2019m still not 100% happy with this room, but we\u2019ll get there \u2013 we don\u2019t spend a lot of time in here, as the living room and my office are where we usually are, so I feel like we don\u2019t consider it as much of a decor priority.
Watch my room tour here for full details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hallway
<\/strong>One of our most recent projects, the hallway had magnolia textured wallpaper and orange-y stained woodwork, it was hideous. We stripped the wallpaper, and then had the walls reskimmed and then we painted them and all the woodwork. It was a big job, and I remember being SO happy when it was all done. It\u2019s still not perfect, but that\u2019s because I need to have a big clear out. Once of these days it\u2019ll be complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that\u2019s what we\u2019ve worked on so far. Next come the big projects \u2013 including a complete kitchen and bathroom makeover, as well as sanding down the floors \u2013 after that I\u2019ll take a break for a while! Or, y\u2019know, start over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think of the updates?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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