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As you may have seen already, we're working with B&Q, who so far have helped 20 MNers revamp the unloved rooms in their homes - check out the video of their fab revamps here. MNers have also been posting their before and after pics of rooms they've revamped here so do check out both of those threads for Mumsnetter room makeovers!

What B&Q would like now is to hear from as many MNers as possible...

Which is the most unloved room in your home and why? Is it a bathroom that's more shabby than chic? A garden that's more of a jungle? A living room that's past its best or a spare room that's just a dumping ground?

Everyone who shares their unloved room stories here will be entered into a prize draw to win a £150 B&Q giftcard.

Please note that any comments you post here may appear on the B&Q pages on Mumsnet and potentially elsewhere.

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw
MNHQ

Our bedroom has taken a backseat for the last 6 years and it would be lovely to have a nice 'adult only' space again instead of our tatty room. We'd love some space saving devices in our room so we have more space for us!

All our rooms bar the nursery & the loft room are rather unloved. I doubt the house has been replastered since it was built in the 30s & boy does it show! The walls in some of the rooms have obviously been painted odd colours at some point - the back of the dining room door is still bright custard yellow & there's evidence inside radiators & around door frames of a rather delightful shade of grass-green. To cover up these colours some bright spark decided to paint everything but the skirting boards/door frames in matt magnolia - including the radiators & small patches inside the bath!

All we've managed to do since we moved in 3 years ago is replace the doors of the kitchen cabinets (thanks to B&Q!) & paint the nursery so at least the kitchen doesn't look so dated & the DCs have somewhere nice to sleep. Don't even get me started on our navy blue bedroom ceiling!

We've recently been given some money to do up the garden so the DCs have a safe outdoor environment to play in. No idea when we'll be able to afford to do the rest of the house. We're waiting until we can afford to replaster before we decorate properly. Seems like a waste of paint/money to decorate when we'll want to replaster ASAP!

Oh, & none of the internal doors match either. Not the same style, handles or even handle height!

Spare room, or rather the room I sleep in as toddler dd is in my room and makes noise in her sleep. She will move into ds's room when his new room is done up.
It has ceiling fallen down in one corner, flapping paper hanging from much of the rest of the ceiling, a stained blind that I can't let down as it's a strangling risk, some planks of MDF on struts on metal runners to make shelves, with white veneer peeling off, and it's just as well you can't see the carpet as it's more stains than not!

Our bedroom is not just unloved; it is hated. When we moved in nearly 8 years ago, it had a hideous, tatty fitted wardrobe/overhead cupboard that the seller admitted she hated too but had never got round to ripping it out. And neither have we. My beautiful wedding dress, tellingly, is wedged in its body bag between the top of the fitted monstrosity and the ceiling.

A boudoir it is not.

The fitted wardrobe doesn't match our other furniture, the walls are a greying yellow and the corner of the room has replaced the old spare room (now the nursery) as a dumping ground.

And don't get me started on the kitchen (that's the same one fitted in my grandparents' house circa 1987).

In our house it is DDs bedroom, we just have not got it right. She wanted a girly, french style feel to it but the room has modern built in wardrobes so the the effect never worked and now it is tatty to go with it! Wardrobe doors are falling off, carpet is worn and we keep trying to accessorise but nothing goes with anything.

Our spare room. It's basically a cupboard. A single bed might fit in, but, more than that, we just chuck everything in there. The chest freezer is up there as well. We keep saying that we are going to sort it out, but never seem to find the time.

Our sun lounge/ conservatory. It was hand built (not very well) by the previous owner. I need to do it up and reclaim it as it is currently used for my humongous ironing pile.

Our upstairs bathroom has never been replaced since when it was built in 1965!its a horrible old fashioned teal blue colour!
Our downstairs toilet had a leak through the roof and has been sorted but the mess of the walls it's made looks awfull!also has an old toilet in it!has old floor tiles and looks like a chipboard wall and we do not no where to start!

The spare bedroom. It is supposed to house our computer, a sofa bed for guests, and a wardrobe, so that it could double as a play room too. But it actually is a junk room where everything gets shoved until we have guests, then we shove it all in the (very full) loft. The room remains empty for a week or two and then the process starts again.

I hate to admit it but my son's room is the most unloved room in the house because we use it as his bedroom/spare room/storage room. He has a huge room (he's only one and a half years old) and only takes up a small part of it. The rest is taken up by a futon for guests/ wrapping presents area/ bootfair storage, etc. I would love to spruce it up and make it his own finally!!

The garage because everything just gets dumped there.

Our bedroom. In fairness we haven't actually moved in yet. Two weeks to go. We've done lots of work on the house. I've designed furniture modified stuff we already had and had lots of help from my lovely dad building rooms for the DC. We've turned two smallish rooms into three very small but well designed so they each have they're own. They're all designed with each childs personality in mind. The bathroom is fantastic. I've spent hours stripping old Ercol furniture and repainting it for lounge and dining room. £200 got us a kitchen from Ebay.

I've spent the day with lists making sure everything is sorted. Just twigged we don't have a bed, a curtain rail, curtains, bedside tables etc etc. How on earth can I have forgotten our room! Our current bed has been gifted to friends children setting up home as its too big.

One of the boys single mattresses was destined for the skip I'm sure DH would love to top and tail.

My most unloved room would have to be my bedroom. It is painted a hideous neon green (which I thought was the height of cool about 15 years back!) over the top of the wallpaper that was there when i moved in. I've never got round to decorating it again because there always seems to be something more deserving of my hard earned cash. It has built in cupboards, which are in dire need of revamping and an assortment of mismatching furniture.

It also seems to have become the dumping ground for things we no longer use - the charity shop waiting room as I now not so fondly call it.

One day, one day I hope it will become the sanctuary of my dreams. Until then I suppose I will have to continue to walk in to my bedroom in the dark

I have a "spare doom"! It is supposed to be a guest room/crafts room but ends up with half-finished craft projects, bedding not put away properly from the last visitors and washing drying or waiting to be ironed/mended!

Daft thing is there is loads of storage there! I just need to use it properly.

The en suite - vile old murky beige coloured toilet and sink, thin brown carpet, bland old fashioned wall paper and hideous faded floral curtains which don't close and don't match anything! All courtesy of the previous owners. We just haven't got any spare cash for decorating, let alone a new suite.

If we did, I would go for a nice simple white loo and sink and maybe ser if we could build in some storage somehow, although it really is a tiny room.

The kitchen, it was lovely when we first moved moved in but has got a serious lack of storage so always end up cluttered, has dusty net curtains as the windows are huge and blinds are out of the price range. we had a new boiler last year so there is now a huge chunk of wall which has old manky wallpaper on.

Our spare bedroom. Had a hole in the wall when we moved in which we plastered. Ten years on the wallpaper is the same with a big rip and a large area of bare plaster.

Spare bedroom is a dumping ground for everything.

I have a dream that it could become a beautiful relaxing space with wall to wall bookshelves and a lovely area to set up my sewing machine. In my mind it's got the potential to be a light, bright and colourful room with some fantastic feature wallpaper and a tropical feel to it. But at the moment it has no shelves, no storage and some terrible depressing purple wallpaper that has seen better days.

But at the moment it is just filled with the stuff we have nowhere to properly store.

The dining room is also looking a bit the worse for wear, with damaged laminate flooring put down by the previous owners that we would love to replace. It could also do with something to brighten it up as it only has a small window and is an odd 'L' shape so is quite dark. Some new lights would make the word of difference to make it a beautiful bright space.

Most unloved room in my house at the moment is my bathroom, it is just awful, i got a new bath put in about 6 months ago, turned out the old bath had been seeping water out for ages, so the floor underneath needed ripped up and replaced (house is 60yrs old and council built) anyway what they have left me with is just so disheartening, they tried to even off the floor by putting sheets of wood down, the sheets of wood dont meet the walls at most part's, so there are gaps between the walls and the floor, the new bath has a huge chip in it which they wont do anything about as apparently i did not take a photo of the damage while the workmen were in, all of this cost me an insane amount of money and was supposed to make it better not worse, when i moved in the walls are tiled but the tile aint is all falling off to show an awful beige tile underneath, as if it wasn't bad nough there had to be beige underneath huh! Aaah! well once the summer over we will have to start all over again on it lol wish us luck ;)

It's the living room in our house, the room we spend most of our awake at home time in but the thought of the disruption of redoing it is so traumatic, it has huge windows so replacing curtains is always a mammoth task and I think we'd be lost even for a week without this room.

Our most 'unloved' room is our second bedroom. It currently has all the things we can't think of where else to put, more books than you can shake a stick at and items that we probably should have binned years ago. It's a nice size room but we need to redo the plastering, paint it, properly furnish it and just tidy it totally. The plan is for it to become a nursery so we really need to get on and sort it!

Our front room, the first room anyone sees when they come to the house! We started decorating it, then noticed the floor is dropping, there's a gap of a cm under the skirting in places. The wooden floor under the laminate is obviously rotten, and I'm half expecting to wake up one day and find my sofa underground. Decorating has come to a halt until we can afford to fix it.

Our 'master' bedroom should be called mess-ter bedroom. It is such a dumping ground. It has piles of clothes that will never be worn again. It has the oldest futon outside of some Tokyo museum. It has wardrobes and chests of drawers which cannot shut because of the Mmount of clothes. It has ugly wooden shelves everywhere with books and videos and boses of papers and toys and the jewellery is lying intangled heaps. It is truly abominable and I don't know where to start with!