It’s done!! After almost a year of evenings and weekends the sun room to boot room/pantry transformation is now complete, both inside and outside. Well the outside needs a coat of paint but with winter approaching I don’t think it will get that coat of paint until March 2013.
This is the floor plan of the kitchen/sun room when we first bought the house.
1. downstairs toilet 2. kitchen 3. sun room
The first impractical thing about this layout was that we had to go outside to enter the toilet. In 1896 toilets were not important to have in ones home, neither did bathrooms. The second thing was the sun room and the lack of space to storage the hoover, buckets, stock etc. Also the sun room was quite hideous in shape and didn’t go with the architecture of the house as it was a seventies add-on.
We initially renovated and decorated the whole lot to our standards but we soon came to know that this wasn’t working. The massive windows in the sun room were single glazed so in winter days one would freeze their socks off being in that room and as we opened the door leading from the kitchen to the sun room with an archway, the kitchen was just one large freezer during the winter.
Conclusion; we had to start over and postpone the rest of the house.
This is the current floor plan.
1. downstairs toilet with blocked up out-door and newly opened in-door 2. kitchen with new counters, island and archway leading to the boot room/pantry 3. boot room, pantry on the right, doors straight into the garden via a 4. porch where we take our boots off and enter the kitchen with clean shoes YAY!
There will be plain white Novilon on the floor in a couple of weeks as there’s no underfloor heating and the Novilon will let us walk on our socks.
I bought the poster at The Hambledon. You can read about the vegetable rack here.
We used the same IKEA cupboards as in the kitchen and recycled and painted the old doors. They store coats, vases, cleaning supplies, the hoover and an IKEA build-in pantry. I bought the magazine holder at an office supply store in The Netherlands but you can buy them on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and in The Netherlands right here.
I love this window overlooking my laurel hedge and right off the terrace so we can pass food through that window in the summer when we eat outside.
I bought the jug at IKEA, the calendar is by Claudia Pearson and I bought the beautiful Figgo Love Poster from Linnosaurus in her Etsy Shop.
Oh and this lamp, THIS LAMP!! I got it from the beautiful Sandra from Accessorize Your Home many moons ago and never found the right place for it. But now it has found it’s destination in the boot room and it’s just lovely. All of the items Sandra sells in her shop are just lovely. This jug is on my wishlist, this pudding mould is oh and this cake stand!!! Sandra also ships internationally, good for us!!!
As all the doors and windows are now new and double glazed this part of the house has become so inviting and warm, I can’t wait to cover it in Christmas decorations. It was worth all the extra time, money and other rooms in the house waiting to be completed.
Next time I’ll show you the outside.
Absolutely love it! x
It’s gorgeous Yvonne! So light and bright, and lovely little touches! Congrats x x
Awesome!!
It was daring of you to change the sun room, but it does look so much more practical and in place now. Love the decorations and furniture as well, I want to come live in your house XD
I want to live in your house…
love it all, and especially love the idea of passing food in the summer through that large window—what a sweet picture. absolute perfection, i just love your sweet home (and i have tala vegetable shelf envy over here!)
Simply stunning and wonderful attention to detail!
so beautiful!!! (as usual
)
Oh Yvonne, het is echt zó mooi en fris geworden!
Vooral de oude deuren voor de kast, daar ben ik verliefd op,
dat is echt een wens van mij in een volgend huis.
Prachtig al het wit met wat kleur en het houten blad (heb ik op mijn aanrecht)
Al het harde werken waard toch? goed gedaan!
xx
This is why I love your blog – completely wonderful and inspiring!
Wauw! It looks amazing!
Yvonne, it’s just lovely and brings to mind a phrase I heard on this week’s Grand Designs which is that it’s better to have a little bit of something you really want, than a lot of something average and in waiting to do the other rooms you’ve created a really great, functional and pretty room out of something that didn’t work for you before. I bet you’re really proud! x
I love it -but not as much as you probably do! =D Functional floorplans and rooms are so much more important to me than decorating, though of course the latter is so much more fun when the former works out!
This is all so lovely and beautiful. Do you know where you got your wallpaper and what the pattern is called. I would give my left arm for a roll of that stuff.
Jenny
It’s beautiful Yvonne. Such a lot of time and work but now you have it how you want it it’s all worth while. Better to wait a bit longer and be totally happy. Well done on a great job
S x
Hi!
it is so lovely! it is so clean, light.
You really have a good feeling of great composition!
I could look at your pictures all day
Lovely greeting from germany
Silke
Your home is such a treat for the eyes, I love it.
Amazing! Love the way how you use pink and red together
Love it! Love it!
I say this over and over again, but your home is so beautiful!
Just lovely!
beautiful yvonne.
much more practical as a boot room. all the best to you.
xo
This is a great, thoughtful renovation. Having lived in a cold climate before I know what it means to be warm in winter…and comfortable. You have decorated everything fabulously too!
I’m an interior designer(styill in school) and you’re always a great inspiration. And that lamp! I want it hanging over my table!!
Yvonne, how do you keep everything so clean! And your boots – no dirt or mud!
Love it ! Love it! Love it all! Your home is absolutely gorgeous. Bright, fresh and so lovely. I would love to live there. Looks so inviting. Congratulations on all your hard work because it has paid off and looks fabulous. It’s giving me inspiration to get started on my own renovations
Echt supermooie geworden! Fris, licht… ik wil ook een ‘bootroom’!
geniet ervan!!
Thank you for all this eye candy! I’ve been missing posts like this from you….Love your home and your photography! Amazing!
Oh my…..it´s lovely! I´m jelous…I want to have this beautiful home to!
Clean, light, stunning. I just want to eat it!
Beautiful! I would love to see a picture of your pantry inside your cupboards! I love a pantry
xxx
Yvonne, it’s utterly gorgeous. Light and fresh and clean and I bet the space works really well. I love the colour pops of pink and red. It’s fabulous. x
Congratulations, it looks beautiful!
it looks wonderful!!!
Yvonne, wat heb je dat toch weer geweldig gedaan. Onze stijl verschilt wel een beetje, maar ik ben altijd zo onder de indruk wat jij er van maakt, echt een talent. En ideaal om een boot room en pantry te hebben lijkt me…
Wow, it looks gorgeous! You have a great decorating style – love it! x
Beautiful. You should feel so proud.
We are renovating and restoring our home but not as well as you by a long way. Need to borrow your talents
Wauw, mooi! Ik ben op je site terecht gekomen via 101 Woonideeën (goeie reclame, dat). Wij beginnen binnenkort (tja, midden in de winter) aan de verbouwingen, maar daarna zal ik beneden met een schone lei kunnen beginnen… spannend. Ik hou van je lichte stijl met veel wit en toch kleurrijk. Wij gaan ook een sas hebben, waar de diepvries komt, een kapstok voor jassen, een WC, de wasmachine, … Jouw blog maakt dat ik al zin krijg om eraan te beginnen!
Absolutely stunning!! Sorry, I am a bit late with my comment on this post, I was wondering if you could let me know the name of your flowery wall paper, it is so gorgeous. Thank you!
It’s from Cath Kidston, but it isnt available anymore:(
Thanks so much for your reply, Rebecca! Such a shame the wall paper isn’t available anymore but maybe I can find a similar one…
Love it!!
Wow, love your new transformation- your home is so perfect- love it!
All things nice…
I just tried your links on the post and they dont work anymore. even one says it is ‘hacked’ by someone! just thought you’d like to know.
they all work perfectly on my end and no hacks for me.
Oh wow! That is incredible. I feel very inspired by your beautiful choices. It must have been so difficult to do, yet I can only imagine how rewarding it must feel