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Welcome back to my channel into a room transformation.
Today, I'm really excited because we're going to be making over my mother-in-law's bedroom.
We're going to be cleaning it, decorating it, organizing it, and doing a few hacks as
well to surprise her for Mother's Day.
She's been so supportive over the years, so she really does deserve this.
This video is going to be the first in my new series, which I'm calling Hack Your Home,
in where I actually come in to a house and organize it, clean it, decorate it, do a few
hacks, whatever it is, whatever you need, to someone who really does deserve it.
You can actually nominate people to get a bit of help from me, and my team, I don't
actually have a team yet, but I will.
My husband, Matt, is over there.
He can be part of the team.
We just thought, first off, who could be more deserving than the one person who helps us
so much with childcare.
If we've ever had a date night in the past 11 years, she's had the kids for us.
She's actually been doing up her house recently.
Her bedroom room is the next on the list.
We're excited to do this for her, and hopefully give you a few ideas, and hopefully be quite
a satisfying transformation as well.
To give you a bit of background, Matt's mom moved into this house about 17 years ago,
and it could just do with a bit of a revamp now, but she's a got super busy lifestyle.
She's very hands on with all five of her grandchildren.
She still works for the NHS on the maternity ward, a few surprises of our sleeves, which
I'll show you guys.
One of them, is we're actually going to get her a brand new bed, because whenever she
stays at our house, she's always saying how much she loves the beds, how well she sleeps,
as well.
We've managed to get her the same mattress that we have.
Emma Mattress have kindly gifted that to her as well.
They've also said that you guys can have an amazing discount.
On their website, they currently have an incredible sale for Mother's Day.
I think you can get 50% off, 52% off as well, but if you use my code in the description,
it will give you a further 6% off the sale prices already on their website.
Definitely use that.
You can have a huge saving if you do need to get a new mattress, or a new bed, something
like that.
But I'll show you a bit more about the actual mattress a bit later on, but first off, I
think I will give you guys a bit of a before of how the room is looking now.
This is Matt's mom's bedroom.
This is obviously the bed, which we will be changing.
I'm whispering because she's downstairs.
This is the bedside table over here.
She's got a wardrobe over here.
It looks like a temporary one.
Then she's got some shoe storage here.
Over in this side of the room, the room is actually such a good size.
It feels really, really big.
She's got a chest of drawers over here, and then she's got a mirror here.
A laundry basket over here, and then a few bits on top.
I'm thinking we could definitely organize the drawers, and organize what's on top.
It might be nice to get something up on this wall as well.
Also, maybe on this wall over here behind the bed, and just give everything a good organized,
and also get some decor bits, maybe some cushions, maybe a new light as well, because this light
shade used to actually be ours in our first ever flat, I think.
We also might swap out the curtains.
There's a really lovely big window.
It is really nice and bright.
Yeah, I think just a little bit of love and organization will be a huge transformation.
She's also got a really good size linen closet, or airing cupboard, with lots of sheets and
towels in it, but I'm thinking we could definitely organize this a bit better.
Maybe even get some storage bags for it as well, and just give it a bit of a sort out
in here.
Okay.
First off, as I said, we are going to switch out to the bed and the mattress.
I'm just going to take all the bedding off, get rid of the mattress, and also the old
bed frame as well.
While we were doing this, Matt was pretty pleased because he did find some money under
the bed.
Cheers mom.
Yeah.
We did up this room over the course of about three days.
On one of the evenings, Matt actually came back to the house to build the bed.
We ended up buying the bed on Emma mattress as well.
Obviously, they gifted us the mattress, but we liked the beds on the website so much,
we decided to buy it there.
It's really simple and stylish.
Then the mattress arrived.
It's super compact.
It's really easy with delivery to get it upstairs through doorways and all of that.
You just open it out.
It comes with this handy little cutter so you don't actually cut the mattress when you
open it.
As soon as you open, it just grows and grows.
It's this really soft supportive mattress.
It's very breathable as well.
We have these on all of our beds.
It's great for spinal alignment.
You also get free delivery.
There's a 10 year warranty.
They even do a 200 night free trial.
If you're not completely happy, you can return it.
But yeah, I would just really recommend it.
I'll put that link, as I said, is in the description.
Our first job in this room was to declutter and reorganize, and just give everything a
spring clean.
We pretty much did this in the [inaudible 00:05:44] way of organizing.
We got all of the products together.
We took loads of stuff out of the room, and then we also got Matt's mom involved so that
she could actually have a look at things like the towels, and the sheets, and the blankets.
See if there's anything she wanted to get rid of.
We did do a few tip runs as well.
We are going to switch out the curtains.
This was midway through.
Again, just taking everything off the sides.
I think this was now the next day.
We were doing it in between school runs, and work, and renovation and everything.
We did have to break it up, but yeah, I'm just going to get on and give everything a
really good wipe down, and then start moving furniture and vacuuming as well.
Did you ever stop and think, "Well, I spend too much time just getting ready."
Let me be honest.
I don't know a single thing that I haven't done to make you notice me.
Let me be real here.
When I see you, my heart starts racing, but I don't know if a life is chasing, and playing,
and waiting around.
It's a shame that my head starts shaking.
All of the time when you are around me.
But this time, this time.
You're going to know what's bothering me.
I need somebody to love.
Don't you see what's wrong with me?
I need somebody to love.
I don't know what I could say to convince you to hang around when you don't have to.
There's so much that I still keep it to myself because you don't listen, babe.
You sure do got me missing you.
When I see you, my heart starts racing, but I don't know if a like this chasing, and playing,
and waiting around.
It's a shame that my hand starts shaking all of the time when you're around me, but this
time, this time.You're going to know what's bothering me.
I need somebody to love.
We also wanted to get her some more drawer dividers for her drawers.
She actually had a few in her smaller drawers, but we just wanted to get her a few more.
I got these on Amazon.
They're just great for things like socks, and smaller items.
Also great for baby clothes as well.
Matt went ahead and did a lot of the DIY stuff, like hanging shelves, and photos, and mirrors,
and all of that.
He was drilling holes in the walls and doing that side of things.
Yeah, it's worth saying, as well, we did consult the designer that's helping us with our renovation.
We literally text her pretty much daily now for advice.
When it came to sorting out Ann's room, we also spoke to her, and she helped us with
the layout, and with the products and everything else.
I'll link her down below as well if you would want to check her out.
We also changed out all of the little handles on her drawers.
Some of them were broken, some were a bit loose.
We just thought it might be like a nice, easy way to revamp her furniture without having
to paint, or do too much.
Matt went ahead and did all of that.
He actually matched the new little knobs on all of the furniture.
He put the same ones on the bedside table, and then the same ones on her shoe storage,
as well.
It all ties in.
He was kind of running around, doing all of that.
He hung a shelf over the bed.
I'll show you what we're going to put on it a bit later on.
We've got some nice prints, and little plants to put on that, as well.
Make it a bit of a feature.
We also switched out the light for this lamp shade, which is quite cool.
It's almost like a Wicker basket type thing, but it really goes with all of the colors.
We also took out her old temporary wardrobe.
We would really like to get her a proper wardrobe at some point, but we couldn't really find
the perfect one.
Then Matt put the prints together as well.
I kept organizing some of the drawers, all of her hair products.
Then I Mary Condoed some of the clothes as well.
Standing underneath the lights.
Look into each other's eyes.
Tired snowflakes are coming down.
Collapse into water when they hit the ground.
I hear the sound of empty streets.
Yesterday is gone asleep, so all that's left is you and me.
I can't promise y'all [inaudible 00:11:17].
Hold my hand and hear the words I say.
Close your eyes and let this fade away.
Tell the secret place for you and me.
[inaudible 00:11:38] caught up in a trance.
Quiet voices in the night.
The time is running out of sight.
The lonely wind is passing by.
Tries to carry all the whispers that it finds.
The walls are listening when we talk.
Making echoes as we walk.
There's no one left but you and me.
It's like a made up place that only we can see.
Hold my hand and hear the words I say.
Close your eyes and let this fade away.
Build the secret place for you and me.
That reminds, we're caught up in a trance.
Standing underneath the lights.
Look into each other's eyes.
There's no one left but you and me.
It's like a made up place that only we can see.
The case that we gave everything a really good declutter, and clean, and organized.
We managed to fit a few more clothes into the drawers themselves and actually packaged
up a few things that were just for winter.
She actually had a bit more space, and hopefully she won't miss the shelves that were in her
previous wardrobe so much.
Once we'd done all the organizing and everything, we could then get on with the finishing touches.
We hung up and prints, which we bought on Desenio.
We also added a mirror as well, and Matt put up all the nails and screws for all of that.
For her products that she had out on the side, we added this little lazy Susan.
I think I got this on Amazon as well.
I love these for all of my skincare products.
I didn't know whether to add something like this, or maybe a fancy tray, or a fancy mirror
to have everything on, but hopefully this feels a bit more organized.
Now, this space, we felt like it looks really, really nice.
We just moved on to dressing the shelf above the bed itself.
Again, these prints were all from Desenio as well.
We added a little FEJKA, is that what it's called?
The FEJKA plant from Ikea.
We have this in Fraser's room.
We have this in one of our bathrooms.
Just love those things.
I love the way it hangs down.
Kiki likes the new bed, and the new duvet as well.
Because we were spending a lot of time here, we actually brought her with us.
It was really good because if we ever do go on a holiday, and we'll probably have Kiki,
so it was great for her to get used to the space.
I also wanted to show you that Matt built this little bench at home.
This was for Ikea as well.
We put this at the end of the bed.
Under the bed and the bench, we added a big rug, sort of partly under the bed.
We've been adding so many rugs to our house as well.
Our designer, she loves to add rugs.
This one looked really lovely on the carpeting.
Just kind of added something else.
Then we put the bench at the end, because there's so much space in this room.
It's like a nice little place where you can put on your shoes, or sit down.
We also added some new sheets.
They were so adorable.
They've got pompoms all around the edges.
Kiki kept wanting to sit on the bed as well, but Matt gave it a quick iron so that it would
look all nice and smooth.
We also added quite a few textures.
We added a couple of throws, and then quite a few throw cushions as well.
That is pretty much everything.
I think, did I show you guys the curtains?
We also added a new bedside table lamp and everything as well.
That is pretty much everything all done.
Now, I wanted to give you a bit of an after tour, and then we're going to surprise Matt's
mom.
The room is all done.
I wanted to give you a quick tour around.
We finished cleaning, decorating, and organizing.
It's looking so nice and bright in this room.
We're really pleased.
I can't wait for her to see this space now.
Obviously, we did a good clear out of the drawers.
The main change over here as well, was we actually changed all the handles on the drawers.
They're all working.
They look really nice.
We actually did it on all the units.
We did the ones there, and also on her bedside tables.
That's all existing furniture that she already had.
I also got this little lazy Susan.
You know I love these.
Well, I just thought this would be really handy for all of her products.
We also organized some of the drawers as well, and then hung a mirror here, and a couple
of prints as well.
This area is probably what has changed the most in the room.
We actually bought her a new bed on Emma mattress, and obviously added the mattress that I showed
you guys.
We also put a rug partly under the bed and added a bench as well so she can sit down
on the end of the bed, get her shoes on, or whatever.
Also, got some new sheets which have the cutest pompoms all around the edges.
We've added quite a bit of texture.
We've added a couple of throws, also lots of throw cushions as well, and this little
shelf above the bed, and some nice prints, and a little faux plant.
We've got this plant in a few rooms at our house.
It's just Ikea and it's brilliant.
I've added that.
As I said, that was her bedside table, but we've actually added a new lamp.
Then over here, this was her unit with her shoes in it, anyway.
Unfortunately, we haven't got her wardrobe.
We couldn't find the perfect one, but I think we would really like to do that eventually.
But for now, we've added a slimmer Ikea hanging unit.
We've got this at home as well.
Super cheap, just looks really nice and clean.
We managed to put everything that was on her shelves in her wardrobe, into the drawers,
and then just have this hanging unit here.
The airing Hubbard a little bit more.
She had a good clear out.
She threw away some things that she doesn't need anymore.
As you saw, we also switched out the lampshade, and we also changed the curtains as well to
match everything else, but it feels really nice and bright, and clean and fresh in here.
All that's left to do is actually surprise her.
And open.
Oh wow.
Like it?
Yes.
Very nice.
Thank you very much.
All right.
We'll see you later.
Oh, thank you.
Thanks.
That was it for this video, but I really hope you enjoyed it.
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Don't forget, if you know someone who's deserving of a little bit of help, or you want to go
ahead and nominate yourself, I definitely want to do more of these giving back videos.
I'll put my email address in the description down below, and also I'll put the discount
code for Emma mattress as well.
Anyway, with all that said, thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you in my next one.
Bye guys.