So it’s Sunday!

And tomorrow Sonny, Lola and I travel to the Lake District for a short holiday with my Mam!

The first time we’ll have seen her since Christmas.

So today was the last day to finish off our latest self catering place in Aberdeen. And we did it!

Do you want to hear about how it went?

Well, you’ll remember from our last blog that we took this project on based on some agents photos and a quick viewing a month or so back.

I was a large place but if I walked in there as a prospective tenant I would walk straight back out.

The presentation needed improving. And we were the team to do it.

A wall a dark closed doors greeted you.

Every room was full of clutter and horrible furniture which also had to go.

The agent had even bought 3 double mattress for the owner. But they bought the wrong size for 2 of them.

Quality attention to detail, haha.

All of those are now replaced with Silent Night memory foam mattresses which we use as a standard across all of our place.

For some reason the room the furthest from the kitchen was being used as living / dining room!

So we moved it to the room nearest the kitchen to improve it from a functionality perspective which also worked better size and layout wise.

This whole room was redecorated and we are delighted with the outcome.

Ex-Bedroom – Now freshened up Living Area

Then onto the kitchen!

Well what can we say about these DARK GREEN tiles?

They had to go.

So I painted them.

Then again, and again and again! With 5 (FIVE!) layers of undercoat!

So I can officially confirm that dark green tiles are more difficult to cover then deep purple walls from a previous project! HAHA.

We freshened the rest of the room up.

I love how the crisp white backdrop now actually brings out the nice colours of the kitchen units, creating a focal point rather than the previous wall green.

Lovely dark green tiles had to go….

As with all of our places it is now fully equipped with everything you’d need.

Now onto the bathroom.

The suite is old but there is nothing wrong with it.

It is functional.

The tiles really grew on us during our time working there. So we kept them. And we love them.

To give a feeling of more light/space the decor, including ex-wood bath panel was refreshed, and the biggest mirror possible as installed to make a feature of the retro tiles and I absolutely love the outcome.

Original bathroom – Just better presented

We managed to get a lovely super king bed and a single bed into the really spacious mater bedroom.

Ex-living room, now master bedroom

It may seem a small thing but the dark wood window ledges made the rooms look pretty dreary and dated so they also got a few coats of white.

There is now a  double and a single bed in bedroom 2.

It is so also spacious and still lots of space to move around.

Bedroom 2 – old layout

I picked up some fantastic lined grey/silver curtains to replace the lovely old ones in all of the bedrooms and living room!

This makes a huge difference aesthetically and more importantly will make for a much better nights sleep than the old translucent ones!

Bedroom 3 – THE curtains!

To complete the renovation process, we installed our standard key lock box. So guests can remotely access the pace without any human interaction. Which has even more benefits with the current worldwide situation…

After a few weeks hard work the place looks super homely.

And we can’t wait to start hosting the lovely families and contractors/business groups which we usually welcome to our places!

I hope that you enjoyed reading about our little renovation project.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Colin