Bedtime ( part 2 )

The next step was to get the wardrobes in. We bought them in IKEA in the UK and had them shipped out to France, as this worked out much cheaper than buying them in Bordeaux.


Being IKEA, they are pretty solid, and easy to put together, but not that easy to manoeuvre. Levelling them all out took a bit of doing as well, even though we had tried to level the floor as best as possible.






The floor needed a bit more sanding, as it was impossible to move the cupboard into place without the odd scuff mark. 3 coats of varnish later, and we were ready to paper the wall.

Tina had chosen a bold paper for the wall above the bed. As neither of us had done any wallpapering for years, and the walls were 3 meters high in places, we got our friend Pete over to hang the paper, after we had sized the walls.



The first three rolls went up well, but then we noticed that the next roll looked slightly different. We checked the labels, and although all the batch numbers were the same, there were different letters on the rolls.

It turns out that the french use a letter as well as a string of numbers to identify the batch number, and we had bought two different batches.

We went back to Leroys where we had bought it, but they didn't have our batch left. They rung around all of the stores in the Charente, with no luck. In the end, we had to drive all the way down to Bordeaux. They didn't have the batch either, but they did at least have 5 rolls from another batch.

This meant we had to strip of the 3 rolls on the wall and start again.

It was all worth it though, as you can see.