If you follow my blog, you probably know how much I love interior design, house decor and diy projects.
Today I would like to share with you a bedroom makeover, which, together with my husband, we've done as a surprise gift to an extremely kind and warmhearted elderly person. Before I show you before & after pictures, let me tell you something more about this lady...
Well, her name is Zofia, she lives in Poland and, at the moment, she is 79 years old. She was born in 1939 (during the II World War) into a family of poor farmers. One day, when she was 18 years old, she met her future husband Jan, at the wedding of her cousin. They fell in love with each other inmediately, got married and had 4 children. Back then, life was extremely difficult and they always lacked money. They lived in a very small village, in Zofia's family house, and had a lot of manual labour as they had a reasonable size farm with cows, pigs, chickens and goats. The whole family including children had to help in the fields or on the farm. At the age of 60 years old, her husband Jan died from a heart attack and ever since then she had to be very strong to continue on with her current life at the countryside.
Today, she still lives in a 100 years old house and has got plenty of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She suffered and sacrificed a lot in her life so as a thank you gift, the whole family asked us to renew her main bedroom. We love such ideas and unique people so we couldn't say no. We were actually more than excited about this project and couldn't wait to start it.
The makeover was supposed to be a surprise for her, so her oldest daughter came up with an idea to invite her to her house for a couple of days. TWO WEEKS, that's all we had to change her bedroom completely and evoke tears of joy and emotion in this amazing elderly lady.
Have we managed to do this? Well, judge for yourself.
BEFORE (Forgive us the mess and the bad quality of pictures - we were in a great hurry packing all the things)
AFTER
So, that would be it... I hope I have inspired you with the ideas for a bedroom makeover or at least with an idea for a thank you gift for someone special. One is for sure, such presents are unforgettable and always stir a lot of emotions. Our heroine was so touched that tears came to her eyes. For us it was a priceless moment worth every effort.
PS. My daughter Zosia has got a name after her extraordinary Great grandmother!
WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST!
Bardzo podoba mi się transformacja ale szczególnie miłość i troska o Panią Zofie :)
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Dziękujemy! Pani Zofia to moja Babcia - dzisiaj jest jej święto :) Cieszymy się, że metamorfoza się spodobała :) Lubimy z mężem takie projekty i z pewnością nie jeden jeszcze tutaj przedstawimy :)
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Czekam bo bardzo lubie takie metamorfozy jak również dbanie o tak ważnych ludzi w Naszym życiu jak babcie i dziadkowie :)
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Suuuper chociaz mieliscie szczescie ze ta Pani nie dostala zawalu serca na widok takiej zmiany. Pewnie zasnac nie mogla...Ale super zescie sie spikneli, babcia pewno w zyciu sie nie spodziewala ze jeszcze na stare lata ja cos takiego spotka.A zdazyliscie z niespodzianka?Bo piszesz ze babcia wczesniej przyjechala?
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Babcia rzeczywiście nie mogła zasnąć :) Ale teraz śpi jej się o wiele lepiej!
Z niespodzianka zdążyliśmy - chodziło już tylko o detale które na ostatnią chwile umieszczaliśmy w pokoju 😉
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wow, I would like to learn from interior designs, I have it as a goal. Excuse my bad English, help me with translator. It really is very nice, despite being a small space.
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thank you very! It's really nice to hear it. Do not worry about your English. It'll get better within time. I make mistakes myself as it is my second language. Cheers!
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Niesamowite! Aż trudno uwierzyć w tą zmianę! Gratuluję 😍😍😍
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Dziękujemy!!! ☺️ Babcia była zachwycona 😉
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Poprawa niesamowita, Babcia ma modniejszy pokoik niz niejedna nastolatka :) Swietna robota! Moglas nakrecic na dtube Babci reakcje!
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Dziękujemy :) Babcia przeszczęśliwa! Zamysł nagrania Babci reakcji oczywiście był ale Babcia nas zaskoczyła i przyjechała wcześniej niż planowaliśmy Wiec wszystko potoczyło się bardzo szybko i nikt nie zdążył pomyśleć o nagraniu :/
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It is a worthy gift for a wonderful woman, and a great work done by you, giving a 100-year old room this kind of look is remarkable.
Well done.
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Thank You 😉
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Fantastic change.
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Dziękuję 😉 Najważniejsze, że Babci się podoba :)
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Świetny dobór rozstawienia mebli i jasna kolorystyka, na pewno wpłynie pozytywnie na samopoczucie :)
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Nice change, good job !
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Thanks 😉
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Mój blog głównie traktuje o wykańczaniu wnętrz, jeśli interesuje Cię ta tematyka zapraszam do siebie ;) pozdrawiam
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wow wow wow ...this doesnt look like the same house at all. feels like i am looking at two different interiors. this is a great work you have done and i am preety sure the old lady will shed tears of joy when she sees this. Nice one of you.
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Thank You! Actually Everytime she calls me, she says how grateful she is :)
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Piękna metamorfoza. Nie dziwię się, że były łzy wzruszenia. A co do tamtych czasów to rzeczywiście były ciężkie. Pamiętam jak rodzice mi opowiadali.
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Dziękujemy! Czasy były ciężkie to fakt ale mam wrażenie, z tego co mi Babcia i Mama opowiadały, że ludzie byli jednak szczęśliwsi i doceniali bardziej życie i jego "małe" momenty :)
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Cóż za metamorfoza🙂😍
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😉
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You wrote something in tag #polish. Polish community use this tag for posts with Polish language. We don't want to flag your post but we should do that. This is tag spamming and you won't find many voters here. Please use edit and remove tag #polish or change into something else. OR even better - use our beautiful language!
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Nie ma problemu... Rozumiem, że tag #polish odnosi się do języka w którym jest napisany post ale w tym przypadku odnosił się on do narodowości mojej bohaterki. Czy to oznacza, że nie mogę już w żadnym przypadku użyć hashtagu #polish?
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przepięknie!
i ile w tym serca!
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