As Tidy As It Will Ever Be...

Over the past month or so I've been "sorting" A's bedroom. This has involved re-homing a couple of bookcases from elsewhere in the house and moving some of the other pieces of furniture around a little. Oh, and tidying... lots of! I know many will still consider it very cluttered, but we do have a lot of stuff. She loves reading and has an excellent library of books. I would say that about 80% of her books have been bought from charity shops, an excellent and cheap source of good quality children's books.

The sun was shining a little this morning so it seemed a good time to attempt some photos of her room. I find it hard to take good quality indoor photos without flash. After some trial and error I think it's best to use my camera on the night time setting and rest it on something steady if it's going to be a longish exposure. The photos are still a little dim perhaps, but they'll do! By the way, my camera is a Fujifilm Finepix f100fd.
 
OK, here are some photos of the room in its tidy state (incase you were wondering!)

I was tempted to dig the African Flower blanket out the wardrobe for some staging, but didn't.

Now there's absolutely no more room for any more furniture. As more books come in we'll need to say goodbye to the ones she's grown out of. Of course, there'll be ones which we'll keep, indeed, some of the ones she has now were mine when I was younger. In those days books were relatively far more expensive than they are now so I didn't have many. I like her room, it's the kind of room I would have liked when I was little. I don't think I've imposed it on her though, there's enough of her own personality in it to make it hers.


Anyway, here, for comparison, are the messy photos...

And here, while I'm at it, are two photos I found of her room when we were just beginning the process of converting it from being a spare room...

Unfortunately, I can't find any photos of it as it was when we moved in. Imagine a dark underwater cave - dark blue carpet, navy skirting and cornicing, and dark blue walls. Believe it or not, the yellow, scrambled egg effect sponging was an improvement...