So many people use their homes as part of their business nowadays. Whether it be a simple desk in the corner of a bedroom or a home office in the garden shed. I’m one of those people and today’s post charts the makeover of a room at the side of our house, just next to the kitchen, that is now a baking studio attached to the classes taught at the Picket Fence Baking school.
This is how the room looked in October of last year. Not great you gotta admit. It wasn’t making anyone who passed by it feel good at all and had become a dumping ground after we had moved in in April. But Robert and I did some measuring and we worked out that it could actually become a very useful space.
Over the next couple of months, with the help of family, we cleared the room.
We sanded the floors.
We worked at all times of day and night to paint the floors. This picture was taken at 05.57 on the 10th of December. We pulled some early mornings before Christmas but it was fun. Just Robert and I hanging out before the kids got up.
And then my parents offered to give us two whole days where we would do nothing but paint walls, build scalloped pelmets and generally give us a huge head start on the room being almost ready. I had North Pole radio blasting out Christmas hits for most of the day and then we stopped and had a huge piece of venison so the day wasn’t all work.
And then I moved in and decorated.
And pottered.
And fiddled.
And tweaked.
And made it mine.
And imagined people baking, decorating cakes and learning so much that they could hardly stand all the knowledge bustling around their heads.
And my dream came true.
I hope to see some of you here soon.
i love you, have a wonderful day
Cherry x
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Wonderful job! So lovely! Joana
Well now when anyone passes that room I’m sure their heart skips a beat isn’t it just lovely x
The studio is soooo beautiful! Congratulations! Shame that I live in Barcelona, otherwise I’d love to attend your baking classes…
What an amazing transformation! Wish I could come for some classes.
Oh, Cherry! This looks so fabulous! I can’t wait to come along to the Girls and Pearls course and see it!
Well done Cherry, enjoy living your dream!!
Sue xx
mm mm!
Makes Picket Fence Baking look even more tempting!
Congratulations on going all out for your dreams!
Adorable! You’ve done it! Congratulations.
Very Cherry! You can see you had a vision for this and have got there! The room looks fabulous and what a wonderful team you all made. My favourite thing is the little fifties glass door cabinet on the wall. Beautiful! x
What a transformation – great job, it looks wonderful now, almost enchanted!
x
Oh it looks beautiful,so fresh and cheery looking you have done such a great job!
The pink wall is so lovely! can i ask the the name and shade please? x
ooooh! looks good enough to Eat!!!!!!
Lovely to see your hard work pay off and your dream come true Cherry. I had a big set back with ‘my dream house’ this week, but this post has encouraged me to persevere. Thank you for being an inspiration as always xxxx
Amazingly wonderful place. You are awesome… I would like to attend your baking class, maybe one day.. If I can come to London again:)
Wow!! It looks gorgeous – and look at all those Kitchenaids!!! I wouldnt get any work done for stroking them!!!
Another fantastic make-over post!
You are the World’s Best, with Before-During-After posts!
“Auntie”
Just beautiful! I would spend all day baking if I had a space that looked like that! Next time I come to the UK, I hope I can fit in one of your classes!
It looks utterly amazing and gorgeous and sooooo pretty!Such an inspirational space for classes!
Well done Cherry! And your family of course! x
that room is utterly adorable x
Oh Cherry, it’s just Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Gorgeous! I love the fifties cabinet on the wall. I’m desperate to crack on with my endless projects on the go but have to wait until that long awaited January pay day! Thanks for the inspiration, fab as always! L xxx
Hi Cherry, I have always loved all your posts and dream that dream of making our house a home… i just wanted to say massive congratulations on being able to follow your dreams! and just how you are able to pull off all this diy with 2 kids.. getting up at crazy o’clock is nothing short of amazing. where do you get the energy??
the room (as is the rest of your home) looks lovely. if only i lived closer, i’d definitely take up one of your classes.
wishing you all the best and looking forward to many more updates.
a big fan.
I absolutely love the room! I like to use white when I decorate. How do you keep the white painted floorboards clean? I’d love to have this in my house, I have floorboards but varnished them as felt white would be hardwork to keep clean. Any advice?
so, so pretty. And very ‘you’.
x
Congrats Cherry and Robert (and family) it looks amazing!! I can only imagine how much fun you are going to have in this room. I want to have a baking studio too – LOL!
Fantastic job, Cherry!
It looks Cherry-Cheery and practical, and I sense good spirits all around.
Best wishes,
Merisi
Cherry it looks amazing
Well done. I would love to join one of your classes soon. Good luck with it all x