and for my next project......

Since my bedroom curtains, are nearly finished (I'm waiting on the heading tape from Merrick & Day, who sell curtain making materials and sundries at wholesale price to the public.) I thought that I should get on with decorating our bedroom, which is still in the awful purple/lilac paint that nearly all the rooms where painted in when we moved in (the previous owners had also painted the radiators council estate green - why I ask you, why?!)
So I am planning to turn this.....

into this.....

Wallpaper - Laura Ashley Chalk Pink Oriental Garden, Paint - Laura Ashley Oyster (old range, still available in Homebase)

I also found this little marbled-topped wash stand over the weekend in my mum's old pottery (which is in my grandmother's walled garden) she had used the legs as a stand for her lathe, and it's covered in splatters of slip. So yes, you guessed it I'm sanding it down and painting it in some pale Farrow & Ball colour that I've got in the cupboard, haven't decided which yet. The marble is my favourite - Carrara, a lovely pale grey and white. I thought it would look gorgeous in a bathroom with a ceramic sink on top, but unfortunately my bathroom just isn't big enough, so in the meantime I'm going to put it at the foot of our bed. Now all I need is reasonably priced wash basin and jug to sit on the top.