Tuesday 21 April 2015

My Lounge Room Makeover ..... well 'Virtual' Makeover!





It's a cold, wet day.  All five girls are back at school.  I am home alone for the first time in two and a half weeks.  Piles of mail and bills await opening.  Dinner needs to be prepared.


Sounds like the perfect time to sit back with a mug of hot chocolate and fantasize about a lounge room makeover that is totally not likely to happen because  a)  we have no available funds  and  b)  we have no available time.  But hey that's the joy of a 'virtual' lounge room makeover!!


About 4 years ago hubby knocked through a doorway from our lounge/dining area to our garage which we converted to a room......okay 'converted' is probably a bit of an overstatement ....essentially we gyprocked the roof and most of the walls, put down some carpet squares and vowed to 'finish it off'.....one day!


So for the past 4 years we have had this huge gaping doorway knocked though with the best of intentions for a door of some sort to go there.....one day!



Well we are now in the process of setting up that garage as bedroom space for Miss 17 and Miss 15 so the issue of the door between lounge/dining and garage has been bumped back up on the do to list.



And it is from that point that my whole virtual lounge room makeover is created!  



You see the space where we knocked the door through is quite large and what kind of door to put there has been a bit of an issue.....but one that I have solved with my discovery of barn door hardware......  So essentially this is a track system that will allow a barn style door to be hung and slide to close the opening.




The barn door concept will work really well in the area we have and the barn door itself will then become a feature of our lounge/dining room.


But clearly now the whole lounge/dining area would need a makeover to complement the barn door!



That is when I found DIY pallet walls....oh my gosh!!  I absolutely love this look and since you can acquire pallets a plenty for free then it will mostly be our labour required to get this effect...okay so together with a nail gun, a saw of some sort and maybe some stain.... 




So now in my head we've got a bit of a rustic old barn thing going on.....and I love me a rustic old barn!!!!  A gorgeous old barn conversion in a little English country town would be  a dream!!



Well now that I have my barn door and my pallet wall all that will be left to do is paint the remaining walls and hunt down some furniture that will fit the old barn theme.

And then the best bit....time to accessorize with wooden ladders, reclaimed timbers and wrought iron pieces

















I am now that crazy person who will be constantly on the look out for free pallets on the side of the road as I try to make this virtual makeover become a reality! 


I may have gotten a bit carried away with my Lounge Room Makeover Pinterest board!! You can check it our here if you like....maybe make yourself a cup of tea first!!


And here is the source of each of the images in the top collage...just in case you love these things as much as I do!






So tell me are you due for a lounge room make over....or is there some other room in your house that is crying out for some attention?



Linking up with Essentially Jess for #IBOT


18 comments:

  1. Love this Veronica. I've got an outdoor coffee table I made out of pallets, so versatile aren't they!

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    1. They are amazing aren't they Vicki!!!! Good on you for making a coffee table!!!

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  2. I'm obsessed with barn doors! I want them in my house too! I would totally close off a room just to have a barn door.

    And I also became a crazy pallet collector until my husband threw them out because I wasn't doing anything with them. He just needed to give me a chance!

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    1. Haha we may need to start a support group for barn door obsessives!!
      Oh my gosh he threw them out.....you totally would have done something with them...one day!!!!!

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  3. Absolutely no harm in dreaming. That's what Pinterest is for isn't it?

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    1. you are spot on Michelle...pinterest is for dreams!!!

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  4. I can totally picture it :) I hope you can pull it off! One day anyway ;)

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    1. I think I've won hubby over so maybe it will become a reality one day!!

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  5. Oh that would be so cool!
    I don't have a renovating bone in my body. Or a decorating one. My house is rather spartan and I don't mind that.

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    1. Oh Jess I can't tell my tartans from my stripes or my low sheen from my matt...i haven't a clue!! But I do love anything rustic/vintage!

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  6. The things you can do with old pallets is remarkable! My lounge room is on my list as my June project as part of my year long project to sort the whole house. Right now it's resembling a playroom & not nearly as stylish as it could be. Good luck on your dream lounge room :)

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    1. The possibilities with pallets are unbelievable aren't they Holly! Good luck with your project too!

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  7. That sounds really cool. It will look amazing and the girls will love it. I love the whole mix old with new / country with modern kind of idea. There's a house near us that has a funky opening to their house made out of railway treads. It is super cool. They painted them bright red too. Looks amazing. Good luck with the project. #teamIBOT

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    1. Oh I love the sound of the house with the red railway tread...I love old and rustic and I love it when people add a splash of colour too!

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  8. Do it do it do it!!! I am contemplating giving our dark wooden bedroom suite a makeover with some Annie Sloan chalk paint ... but it would be a huge job ... so I'm not sure if it will actually happen!

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    1. Oh I love those paints...never used them but love them lol! You definitely have to paint the bedroom suite and then let me know how it goes!!

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  9. You have to do that wall!! I love it. What a great idea. I hope you get your lounge room makeover soon!

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    1. I love it to Fleur!! I'm working on it believe me!!!!

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