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Frances Glory Costelloe's avatar

Love seeing the updates. The yellow downstairs loo looks so cute. The colour works so well in a small space. I love it at night the most. Would you ever think about painting the toilet seat in the kids bathroom. Maybe a pale blue in the same hue as the toilet. Like Kakelugn by Farrow and Ball. I think because the floor tiles are a warm yellow orange and the sink is cool another colour could help with balance. So cute though. The sink is very sweet. x

Niffer's avatar

It all looks great. I particularly like the Murano ceiling light, beautiful. The kids bathroom is eclectic and cool. I think if you changed it to a different basin it would lose something and you’d possibly regret it. Embrace the friction!

Rachel's avatar

I actually love the naked pine skirting boards between the India Yellow and lovely terracotta tiles 🥰

Mary Sherman's avatar

I love your photo of Mt Fuji. Everything is coming together so nicely. The wallpaper in your daughter’s room is adorable!

Tascha's avatar

May I ask who you used to get your sofa reupholstered. I have a couple of Bauhaus era chairs that I inherited that badly need doing up. Thanks.

P.S. Love the reno updates.

Alexandra Stedman's avatar

Sure! All the details are on here (this is an old blgopost so the formatting is a bit off) https://alexandrastedman.substack.com/p/all-the-striped-sofa-details?r=8spxp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Suzy Rowlands's avatar

It all looks lovely, the wallpaper idea for the downstairs cloakroom is great!

Barbara Ward's avatar

I love it too- I am at the same stage as you with my own renovation, craving colour on my walls - (paintings are in the attic! )I am inspired to get them downstairs !!

Also getting ready to buy some lampshades.. like the look and shapes of yours.

There comes a point after the exhausting months of building work when you are not ‘firing on all cylinders’. I am finding renewed energy here and really helpful buying suggestions - thanks

As a an exhausted , financially drained fellow renovation person. My best investment recently was an impulse, all inclusive, flight and holiday - week in Lanzarote! We have all come back revitalised .🙂

I have found it so supportive snd useful to be alongside your substack posts and photos during my own

renovation.

Lynne Bateman's avatar

It's all coming together! You have worked so hard. The yellow bathroom will all work out - trust your vision!

Alexandra Stedman's avatar

Thank you! When I see the kids in there I love it and that’s probably what matters x

Rachael's avatar

I love it! Wallpapering always takes _years_ but it looks so great afterwards. Re the yellow sink...I'm not sure whether you were already planning to, but I think if you painted the walls in a colour (pale blue? Or a matching yellow?) it would tie it in nicely

Alexandra Stedman's avatar

This was my original plan, the door is a pale blue and I had started the skirting….but I worry it might look a bit ‘themed’. I’ve never liked a room I’ve painted a colour - but it keeps crossing my mind and it definitely depends on the blue!

On the edge of the woods's avatar

I also have a small child obsessed with Bunny vs Monkey 🥰