I truly believe that the
little things you do in a room can make or break a space in terms of
decoration. I discovered this after many a conversation with my
sister as to why her room always felt nice and very personal to her
and mine never did. My sister has a sort of god given gift for
interior design. Every room she has had has always been such a lovely
space! You could go into any of them and know immediately that it's
her room. It has always been my ultimate goal (in terms of room
decoration that is), to harness some of this insane power and make it
my own.
I finally think that I
have in someway achieved this with my room at my mum's house where I
used to live before I moved down to London for university. The wall
with my bed is by far my favourite in the room. I spent a good few
hours cutting out pictures from magazines, some of my favourite
picture source magazines include; Clash, Pigeons & Peacocks, the
Urban Outfitters catalogue and Nylon. If your not a bit ridiculous
like me (I refuse to cut up hardback A4 magazines) then I would also
recommend Love, Pop, Dazed and Confused, Vogue and iD, oh and Notion.
Side note – if your ever around the Barbican area of London, which
I am quite a lot, then get yourself down to the market on Leather
Lane, you can pick up magazines like these there for practically
nothing. A key thing to take note of when selecting your pictures is
another little gem of wisdom from my sister; 'don’t worry about if
they all go together or if they all go along the same theme, if you
like them all then it will look good'. I follow this when I'm cutting
out my pictures and it seems to have worked for me! Oh, and I
generally find that smaller pictures look better in a collage, don’t
ask me why, they just do.
Back from that slightly
related tangent I then stuck them all up on my wall with blue tack. I
really love how the wall looks now because not only is it so much
better than what I used to have up there which was a load of fashion
adverts and editorials that I had cut out of old issues of Elle
magazine, once again I refuse to cut up my sizeable collection of
Vogues, but it reflects what I like and my personality a lot more
now. Also on the same wall I have some of my shoe collection stored
in a little shelving unit that I think we got form Ikea ages ago (it
used to be my sisters so forgive me if I'm wrong). Again, I believe
that you should have things that you like on display in your room so
as shallow as it sounds, I like shoes, so I'm going to display my
shoes proudly for all to see. (shoe collection to come soon).
In terms of my bed, I
love it! I got it for my eighteenth birthday from my mum, I think she
got it from Dreams, which is a bed shop here in England. For as long
as I can remember I have wanted a metal day bed type of bed and I
finally got one! I love how girly it looks as I'm not a very girly
girl at all and so I think it gives a nice contrast to everything
else that I've got. My bedding is pretty average, I like the whole
red, white and blue theme that I have going on because I have a lot
of union jack things in my room and so having my bedding be in this
colour scheme ties my room together quite nicely I think.
When I was still residing in my parents' home in lafayette indiana apartments, I decorated my room with different polaroid shots.
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