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The bedroom is where my heart lies

June 28th, 2010

Lately, (as you can tell from my previous posts) I’ve found comfort, relaxation and most importantly reflection time in my bedroom.

Just recently, I have also tried to keep my room -clean- (Yes, I admit, I’m not one of those neat freaky girls) and try to make it more of a personal space, that is what a bedroom is meant to be, yes?

I’m a person who loves;

1. Simplicity

Yes, although my room has had cluttered times, due to lazyness or rather, I’m a hoarder, bad habit. I dislike throwing things away, even if its course notes I know I wouldn’t ever read again, I feel bad for throwing it away (even if it gets recycled). Same goes to Magazines, which I only throw away when they are more than 2 years old. I have found, when my room is cluttered, I’m at my laziest, but when my room is clean, I’m most productive. I guess that is easy to understand. I’ve never seen my desk so free of ‘stashes’ in the longest time.

My room is small, but I try my best to hide the clutter, be it in my wardrobe, or in a corner where it won’t be visible to people passing my room. I hate wall shelves; ever since we moved in here about 5 years ago, my dad keeps suggesting that he builds some shelves on my wall (he love’s em). I refuse to! Whenever I detect seriousness in his voice, I lock my room just to prevent it from happening, hence my walls are shelves/hole-free 5 years later My belief is wall shelves will only make rooms smaller. I try to keep my walls clean anyways.

2. Subtle patterns

I love, love, love, French and the occasional Victorian patterns. You know the whole floral thing? Especially if its really subtle, it is just enough to add character to a room

3. Hint of colour(s)

Regardless of my passion for reds, does not depict my future home will be drowned in shades of red. Nah ah. Refer to point #1. Simplicity. White walls (or other bright colours) with a hint of colour is the way to go. It’s the easiest foundation to work with, especially when you want to change the look of your room, you don’t need to throw away your whole couch just because its red, instead just decor here and there. Much more, flexible and achievable on a budget.

You may wonder, why the sudden interior decorating post? I’m not sure myself too. I think it all started with my Google Image search for bed frames (I desperately need a new one, for the last few months I’ve been using a trundle bed base with my new mattress, I don’t think it’s doing the new mattress and myself any justice =/)

I’ve always wanted something like a daybed, that has double uses as a bed and a sofa, I don’t even know if I’d use it as a sofa, but… they’re so pretty! Especially the ones with nice floral patterns in the frame.

And then suddenly the thought of fairy lights hanging around the bed frame hit me, which I proposed to the boyfriend and got shut off straight away boo! Sorry bf, you ain’t stopping me!

More pretty fairy light decor…

I want to see stars in the sky too…

I’ve also been contemplating to get some white letters for my room, as cliche as it sounds, I want to ‘DREAM’ too

Then the search for bedroom furnishing began.

I stumbled on Samantha’s blog, Walnut & Ivory, a project she has started since purchasing her first home. She blogs about the process of refurbishing her place, the before & after’s are just amazing! What got me hooked is the similarities of her place (before), with what my appartment looks like at the moment.

(The above isn’t my place!) credits: walnut & ivory

What I have? Ugly minty green carpet, cream coloured walls, and white ceilings. OK, well the latter 2 ain’t so bad, I’m just sick of seeing green carpet, its so hard to decor too (my room anyways), how I’d love my parents to get cream coloured floor boards in near future would be so good…. Imagine how much bigger the apartment would feel. But anyway, I love her style! Low budget, with the smallest things can make a big difference!

I’ve already decided for my future home, white walls and cream-yellow coloured floor boards. I asked the bf today, “if we had our own place, what colour walls/floorboards would you have?”, his response? exactly what I wanted. I was like, awesome, that’s most of our house interior decided

But anyway, the point of this post is, I really want to try work on my room a bit this holidays, make it more comfortable for winter esp, when semester 2 begins, I’ll needa get productive!

Some bedroom decor inspirations… (not that much of them are possible for my little room )