I’m obsessed with mermaids so transformed my home into an ocean-inspired paradise, my hubby loves it too

A WOMAN who is 'convinced she is part-mermaid' has transformed her location into an underwater paradise aft falling successful emotion with the ocean.

Bianca Spruit, 45, has spent the past 8 years adding special, nautical-inspired pieces to her location to crook it into a haven that immoderate mermaid would envy.

Her passionateness began aft she archetypal tried scuba diving connected a vacation successful her twenties and she has been hooked ever since.

And portion immoderate mightiness find Bianca's obsession flipping crazy, her hubby embraced it and learned to dive himself.

Speaking to Ruggable, she revealed that she instantly felt "at home" successful the h2o the archetypal clip she went scuba diving.

Bianca said: "In my twenties, I went connected a precise random vacation to Ayia Napa with my ex-boyfriend's mates and a person from my assemblage days.

"Whilst clubbing was good for maine for a mates of days, I soon got bored and decided to effort scuba diving.

"I've ever been a h2o babe and had been wanting to effort it truthful this was my chance.

“From the infinitesimal I went underwater it was similar I'd recovered my home!

"I didn't really spot overmuch connected that dive but the feeling of calm and weightlessness meant I was hooked from the precise start. As soon arsenic I got backmost to the UK, I enrolled connected my archetypal diving course.

"Today, I'm not lone a Leadership Coach, but a dive teacher excessively and person worked successful dive schools successful the UK, Thailand and Australia.

"Now convinced I’m portion mermaid, my hubby had nary prime but to larn to dive and helium loved it!”

Bianca, from Leeds, said she loved the feeling that diving gave her, and due to the fact that she can't dive arsenic often arsenic she would like, she wanted to bash thing peculiar to beryllium capable to conjure up that feeling much often.

This is what inspired her to alteration her home.

She said: “As a enactment coach, I'm talking to clients each the clip astir the value of work/life equilibrium and having a passionateness to flight to extracurricular of work.

"For me, scuba diving is that escape, but I conscionable don't get to bash it enough.

"Transforming my location into an underwater paradise meant that I could get immoderate of the calm and quality of the underwater world, without going connected a dive.

“When I archetypal created a imaginativeness committee for my coaching business, I recovered that arsenic good arsenic tons of images and quotes that were intelligibly linked to my emotion of processing people, I besides felt drawn to a batch of images of the sea.

"It felt lone close that my location should bespeak each of the antithetic sides of me, truthful I person tons of books and inspirational pieces relating to enactment astir the house, but my passionateness for diving needed to beryllium expressed too.

"I wanted my location to not lone bespeak my passionateness but besides my personality.”

In the beginning, Bianca’s location was "livable", but "far from what we wanted", truthful implicit the years, she and her hubby took it upon themselves to renovate and alteration it into their imagination home.

Since her hubby is simply a joiner, they managed to instrumentality connected DIY enactment to support costs down and adjacent handled the structural parts of the renovation and took a people to larn caller schools.

“The erstwhile proprietor of this location had been an aged lady. The carpets were swirling floral patterns and the walls and ceilings had 5 layers of woodchip wallpaper connected them. It was liveable, but acold from what we wanted.

“As my hubby is simply a joiner, helium took the pb successful designing the operation of the location and did each the woodwork, tiling, plastering, bricklaying– you sanction it, whilst I worked alongside him arsenic his labourer.

"While we did bash astir of the enactment ourselves, we did prosecute an electrician and plumber to instrumentality attraction of the method aspects erstwhile needed.

“When it came to our location decor, we wanted to marque definite we were arsenic resourceful arsenic possible.

"I adjacent took a abbreviated solid fusing people truthful I could marque my ain solid 'wave' and a solid underwater scene, some of which are successful beforehand of our bath window, sparkling wherever the airy passes done them.”

“Whilst buying astir for location decor, we stayed flexible and picked up bargains erstwhile we saw them and made usage of off-season sales.

"We besides did upcycle immoderate of our furniture, similar our daughter's thorax of drawers, adding under-the-sea wallpaper to the basal and immoderate beauteous ammunition gully handles, which outgo america astir £50 successful total!

“During the gathering process, particulate was a immense issue, and erstwhile doing enactment yourself, not lone bash you person to see the magnitude of clip you're going to person to springiness up, but also, however overmuch of that clip you're going to beryllium surviving successful a precise messy, dusty house!

"We did what we could with particulate sheets but a batch of it progressive conscionable ploughing connected through.

“When it came to budgeting for this project, my hubby is people precise optimistic astir pricing, truthful I ever softly added a 100 oregon much to immoderate helium told maine each happening would cost!

"By doing this we came successful nether fund overall. The decor was truly a precise tiny portion of the fund arsenic it was truthful DIY.”

Bianca has said that her location present brings her truthful overmuch happiness each azygous time and is arrogant of however hard she and her hubby person worked to get it to wherever it is today.

She added: “I cannot picture the happiness and calm that diving brings maine truthful this was much than a location task to me.

"Every clip I look astatine 1 of my photos connected the wall, I'm transported backmost to that peculiar dive and it brings maine truthful overmuch joy.

"One of my loved pieces is the canvas successful my bath of a see-through crab that I recovered surviving connected the belly of a ample starfish successful Samoa!

"This dive was during my 2 years travelling solo astir the satellite - truthful the representation brings backmost truthful galore memories from that peculiar clip of my life.”

But she explained that she doesn't "think it'll ever beryllium 'done'" and wants to proceed decorating their location for years, reflecting precisely what it's similar successful the ocean.

Bianca said: “Our location translation has taken years conscionable due to the fact that we support adding pieces erstwhile we find them.

"I don't deliberation it'll ever beryllium 'done'. When I'm connected a dive, my favourite happening to bash is to walk ages successful the aforesaid spot, conscionable observing.

"The much you look, the much you find. It's the aforesaid mode with decorating our house!

"We deliberation we're done, but often erstwhile we sojourn determination caller we'll find thing spectacular that conscionable HAS to beryllium added!"