How amazing ~ absolutely nothing to do with the garden 😄

image from Clipart Library

I mentioned way back in the mists of time that we were building flat-packed wardrobes for our bedroom, and it dawned on me the other day that I hadn't updated you any further on our progress 😏  

In our previous home we had built-in wardrobes in our bedroom, so when we moved into St Abbs we had nothing to hang our clothes in.  We were loath to fork out for "decent" wardrobes as we knew that at some point, when we renovated the bedroom, we were planning to once again have built-in cupboards.  On the other hand, building cheaper flat-packed furniture is something that we just aren't very good at!  In the end we decided to just get a couple of clothes-rails to hang everything on.  

Of course, back then we hadn't realised just how long it was going to take us to work our way round the house; six years later the bedroom was no nearer to being renovated and our clothes were still hanging on those rails.  It really wasn't an ideal situation as they get remarkably dusty just hanging there, so in the end we decided to bite the bullet and go for some flat-packed furniture after all since we have absolutely no idea when we'll be getting the bedroom sorted out😳    

The room is a pretty decent size but as it's built partly into the roof, it makes it a little more difficult to fit wardrobes into.  Hopefully when we finally get the room renovated having built-in furniture will make good use of the space.

As I mentioned previously we did have some issues with the wardrobes but eventually that was sorted out and we were able to get them built.  It was a somewhat frustrating and annoying task, and we didn't make a brilliant job of it, but at least everything is now behind closed doors instead of gathering layers of dust!

As you can see we also built a couple of smaller cupboards for other stuff.  We weren't able to find suitable matching pieces, unfortunately, so have had to make do with what was right for what we wanted to store.

This, as you can see, is my shoe collection.  Now I realise that compared to some folk it really is a pretty modest collection.....but for someone who tends to default to Crocs most of the time, I definitely have way more pairs of assorted footwear than I actually need 😄

Sorting them out was another of those little jobs that I just kept putting off tackling but in the end it really didn't take long at all, and I whittled the collection down to these 😏

Since my high blood pressure medication was changed my feet and ankles are much less swollen than they were, and so I found that I could actually fit into all of them except for one pair!  Three pairs were actually too large and another two were simply uncomfortable, so I may try to sell them as they have never been worn. 

Ta-daa!  All put away, looking very neat and tidy even if I do say so myself 😉

Once I'd got that little job done I decided to move the boys off our bed to sit on top of the cupboard.  The cushion is there to support poor 'ole Fred (the dapper doggy in the snazzy blue leggings 😍) as his head is flopping all over the place again.  He really could do with his stuffing being topped up again in his neck ~ I'll try to get round to sorting the poor little bugger out sometime over the coming winter months 😊