AN interior designer has been spurred on to refurbish a Barrow girl's bedroom after her leukaemia relapsed and forced her back into hospital for treatment.

Anne Sowerby, 49, from Plumbland, has been hired by the Make-A-Wish foundation to redesign 10-year-old Aimee Robinson's bedroom.

Mrs Sowerby is working with a team of labourers in Chatsworth Street, Barrow, to complete a five-day makeover of Aimee's pad after she expressed a desire to have a new den with a more grown-up feel to it.

Work started on Monday as Mrs Sowerby and Askam painter and decorator Chris Shepherd stripped the room bare to make a start on overhauling the Aimee's bedroom.

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The team are on schedule and are due to reveal Aimee's transformed room on Friday.

However, after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia in January, Aimee, who had returned to school, is now back at Manchester Children's Hospital receiving treatment.

With Aimee's parents Joanne and Paul Robinson supporting their daughter in hospital, Mrs Sowerby and her team are keen to get the job finished so that Aimee can come home and revel in her new bedroom.

Mrs Sowerby said: "It has spurred us on even more. It will be a real treat for her to come home and see a beautiful new room with lovely fresh carpet.

"This room will be everything that she has ever dreamt of and it's my ambition to make sure that she gets exactly what she wanted and then some. I really want to make it into a place that is special for her."

As part of the transformation, Mrs Sowerby also decided to improve Aimee's four-year-old sister Tilly's room by turning it into a princess pad full of pink colours.

The youngster will cut a piece of pink ribbon to unveil her redesigned room on Friday and it's hoped that Aimee will be able to FaceTime the team for the grand reveal of her new pad on the same day.

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The interior designer added: "I love doing these kind of things and I always think that I can help families when they are going through such a difficult time, it gives them something they can really look forward to.

"Make-A-Wish have been really pleased with all of the work I've done so far for them across a number of projects and I'm hoping to do more with them in the future.

"I can't imagine what it's like for Aimee and her family. I have got to know her which makes it even more real and I hope that once she's had her treatment she can get back being how she was."