This week I took my Dad and my Dad took his car and we both travelled down to Liverpool together for the day. I made this trip intending to just pick up a few bits and pieces for my new house and to organise my room a it more because so far all I'd done is dumped a few essentials into my room, left them there for a month and here I am now.
I somehow spent a lot more money than i initially intended (there's a sentence that is all too familiar) even though I can't exactly remember what I bought or how it added up to what it did.
(everything in the pictures that I can cite I will link at the end of the post)
This is my room as you walk in however this picture actually makes my room like quite small, it's HUGE (or rather huge to me as I've been stuck in a tiny attic bedroom for the last ten years). I'm happy that it all came with matching furniture but storage is something I'm going to have to majorly look into; I just have far too much stuff! A wardrobe, desk, chest-of-drawers and a double bed is all there is which leaves plenty of room for my extra clothing rail and record player.
You can't really see it in this picture but the window is so lovely and tall! We live in a Georgian house so they're that lovely divided-square design where you have to unlock the windows and pull them up to open them.
My bed is just so cosy, cute and amazingly grey! Primark bedding is something brilliant sent from the heavens, I also have another cover in a geometric pastel design shown in my home-ware haul linked here. Almost everything in this picture is from Primark, I bought the little kitty cushion earlier this year so I'm afraid they probably won't have it in stock but it was about £4. The Grey blanket (which is actually from Ikea) and the creamy blanket are also featured in my previous home-ware haul!
It took me about an hour to get my wall décor perfectly symmetrical but I'm so pleased with it! Of course the bunting is Dodie Clark inspired. My "wake up and smell the coffee" canvas was £4 from Primark, the bunting is from Home Bargains and all the other pictures are just miscellaneous things I've collected.
The two cushions in the middle are a little old so I have no idea where they're from, I think the red lyrical one is from either B&M or Home Bargains.The two candles on my Ikea side table are from Home Bargains and Ikea, the grey tray laying there is also from Home Bargains.
I would first like to point out about this picture that the chair is wonky. It is wonky because I am not very strong and I couldn't click the chair into the base and now it is, well, like that....
The ceilings are very high so the walls look bare like I need to fill them up with something but I just want to leave it looking simple and not as cluttered as my room at home. I'm hoping the neutral colours in the grey, white (and hints of copper) will chill me out and help me get a good uni-work ethic going and make me less aggravated and anxious in general.
My chair is from Ikea and I didn't feature it in my home-ware haul because I couldn't really be bothered to assemble it, quite simply. My bin there is also from home bargains, it's just a flimsy wire mesh paper bin. On the wall above my desk is a notice/whiteboard from Home Bargains (100 points for guessing where I work/spend most of my time), so is the weekly planner chalk board. Wreathed around the notice board is my kitty cat lights from Urban Outfitters and underneath it is a selection of polaroids/photo booth snaps.
Minus the bottle of coke, this is pretty much how de-cluttered I want my desk to stay, whether it actually will is a different story (i just have SO MUCH STUFF that I will probably collect and hoard for months on end) (and by stuff I mean like a hundred copies of Elle and Company).
My Ikea copper lamp is one of the things I am most excited about! It's so simplistic and takes up barely any space, it's not clunky and clumsy like most lamps. The heart shaped photo frame is from BHS and actually has a picture of 5 year old me on holiday in Cornwall (is that a little too conceited?).
The grey toothbrush holder I use as a pen holder is from Ikea, the pencil case I got from Clas Ohlson, the other pencil pot is from Dunelm Mill and my selection of candles are either Home Bargains or Yankee Candle.
Again, I want to keep this space de-cluttered but it will probably be piled high with magazines and records in a months time. I probably have a few more bits and pieces I want to add but this is it for just now. My piggy bank is from Alternative and It's so gorgeous, it was actually a present from my Mum for my moving to Liverpool last September. The white tray is just a little candle tray from Ikea I'll probably end up using for little trinkets. The smaller candles are from Home Bargains (surprise, surprise) and the bigger one is an orange squash candle from Primark (mainly just for show, Primark candles can be a little crap). I have my little selection of display books there too: The Colossus by Sylvia Plath, How To Be a Parisian, Burning In Water Drowning In Flame by Charles Bukowski and IT by Alexa Chung. Ooo look and another pretty Primark candle.
This is my little make-up station.
To be honest writing that last sentence actually made me cringe a bit but that is actually what this little stool thing is. My plan of action is to sit in front of my window every morning doing my make-up in front of great natural lighting. I just took a few unopened toiletries with me and dumped them in this basket so this isn't actually how the basket will be utilised once I've moved in, I haven't decided what I want to do with it yet. The underneath bit of the bench will have al my make-up stored there or perhaps just products I am currently using OR my Lush products basket, I am very undecided.
Again, the mug and the mirror are both from Home Bargains, the mug is to be used for my make-up brushes when I eventually cart them all down. I have another mug similar that I will use for my eye-make-up brushes. The two tea-light holders are from Ikea and the "my crap" trinkets tray is from Urban Outfitters.
This picture is only really here to show you all my gorrrrrrrgeous copper clock! It's actually from B&M, I'm not expecting it to last long but it is so super pretty! Hung around it are some copper fairy lights from Primark that I picked up. On the floor there is my wash bag from work which I find especially satisfying as it has two sections: 'light' and 'dark' and each detached with drawstrings and handles so I can easily cart my stuff downstairs to the washing machine!
And a BIIIIIG sigh of relief, we are finally almost at the end of what seems like a mammoth post.
All I wanted to show you was these copper clothes hangers from Primark. I stumbled across them when I was queueing at the checkout and decided to pick up ten (or 5 for £3). I plan to use these on my clothes rail; what's the point in having these gorgeous things hiding away where no-one can admire just how amazing they are????
And that's it!! I bought a dinner set and some boring stuff like bin bags and scourers but I decided to keep this post solely bedroom-themed.
Don't forget to check below for links to everything mentioned in this post.
xxrachelhelen
Mentioned items (items ft in haul are in bold): -
Kitty fairy lights (discontinued)
Cream pencil pot (discontinued)
Copper clothes hangers (unavailable online)
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