Bedroom 1

In June 2021, as we moved in, the main bedroom was a cluttered mess and not very welcoming. It was so different once it had been cleared. There is a dormer window that looks right over to the Isle of Bute, just 400m away from our shore, a great view. 

We again painted the whole room white and removed the storage heaters. Our half-tester bed fits but the ceiling is too low for the half-tester canopy and drapes (or so we thought). We may raise the ceiling if we have enough funds at the end. We also need to remove the woodchip paper someday too. We may also put wardrobes into the huge eaves we have on both sides of the upstairs rooms.

We have put thermal curtains in, the same colour as the lounge so that when we change the windows in the lounge to sliding windows and need an extra pair of curtains there we can use these. If we can't get the same colour and type any longer we then just need to change the bedroom curtains at a lesser expense and not all the lounge curtains. We also put in some offcuts of a carpet we had at The Kennels in Suffolk. I got these pieces bound on the edges and, until we finish this room and put proper carpeting in place, they do as rugs to help keep our feet off the bare boards. We lived with bare boards for 4 years and it was so cold in the Winter. Wind rushing from one side to another through the eaves cupboards and through the flooring made it easier to take ourselves downstairs to what is now the Dining Room and sleep in there until the warmer weather came back.

Aug 2025: The main bedroom renovation was started upon towards the end of the project and we moved into the second bedroom upstairs, with all the furniture from the first bedroom. The wardrobe was dismantled and replaced in front of the window overlooking the church. Both king-size beds were dismantled and propped up behind the wardrobe. Bed bases were stored, alongside wardrobes and bedside tables and chests of drawers. Mattresses were piled up on top of each other and became the new bed, with the Duvalays (sort of sleeping bags with a memory foam inbuilt mattress) from the campervan brought in to be the bedding of choice for a few weeks. This proved to be very soft and squishy as a bed base but hey-ho, it's how we rock. 

We had originally factored in raising the tie of the ceiling so that we could get the half tester bed properly into the room. By the time we got to this stage though we didn't have enough money left to do that and in actual fact, when I checked properly, we didn't even need to do it at all! Duh! The cones on the half-tester bed come down not go up! We also decided not to go with built-in wardrobes behind the bed, utilising the eaves space, again due to cost. We have kept our lovely old wardrobe that has been moved so many times and done a bit of restoration on it. We may actually paint it in time or replace at a later date.

Ray had to deal with most of this room being out of action as I was in Japan at the time. He slept in the campervan on the driveway from a while as both bedrooms had workmen in during the day. The electrician for the ensuite in Bed2 and the others stripping out Bed 1 completely.