The Bunk Bedroom

The other bedroom downstairs again was one of the rooms originally created about a dozen or so years before we bought the house.  The bedroom was used by the 11 year old son, and it was decorated in very very faded wallpaper, and a carpet that was completely threadbare and really filthy.  The wallpaper was nursery stuff - obviously not for a 11 year old boy - and was papered onto some form of polystyrene wall covering, which was badly dented and coming away in places.  Behind that covering one wall was very damp.

Unfortunately, I did not take any photos of the "before" - I was too busy concentrating on stripping the wall covering, ripping up the carpet etc.  Not knowing why the damp was there, we took a gamble and simply sealed the stripped walls with watered down PVA and then painted onto a rough finish.  The damp came back slightly right at the beginning, and the very first visitors we had complained about an unpleasant smell in that room.  However, since then (touch wood), the damp has not come back, and there is no smell.  We are now convinced that the cause was that insulating wall covering not allowing the wall to breath properly.

With the plain white walls and new flooring, we have furnished with bunk beds, a wardrobe and other small bits and pieces to make up a child's bedroom.

We may well be getting a camp bed, which could easily be used in this room, which will increase capacity in the house to 10 (ok, at a push!)