Style at Home

MY ROOM...GREAT IDEA‘Layer up the windowtreatments to soften amodern, boxy frame’TAKE A SEAT‘I saw this chair in acharity shop for abargain £10, andsprayed it pink’TOTAL£1,260TURN OVER FORMY SHOPPINGLIST``````ABOUT MEI’m Wendy Marsh, 38,and I live in Hitchin, Hertfordshire,with my husband Mark and our twochildren, Lola, 7, and Connor, 4. Webought our three-bedroom semi-detached house in December 2010.MY CHALLENGEThe house was rundown and dated, especially Lola’sroom, which had an unsightly boilercupboard, bad lighting, unevenfloorboards and flaking walls. It wasalso cold, as there was no underlay.LOLA’S WISH LISTLola wanted aroom ‘fit for a princess’. It had to bebright, with a place to do drawingand writing, and she needed a newsingle bed as her old one was toosmall. Most of all she wanted it pink- I, however, wanted a little less pink!78 |SEPTEMBER 2016 housetohome.co.uk/styleathome