On my last post, I said that I had an interest in interior design, and this summer, I am planning to re-do my room, so I have been going a little bit ad with the planning and online window shopping in preparation for this grand event.
At the moment in my room I have 3 white walls, and one red wall. My curtains and bedspread are a matching white and red polka dot pattern, and I have a mishmash of the furniture that I've had since I was born and some second hand things. My carpet is navy, and we've had it for about 25 years. I did only redecorate my room about three years ago, and it isn't that I don't like my red and white anymore, it is just that I find the curtains and the bedspread quite restricting, and for someone who likes to change their room as much as I do, I would like to change it.
After much deliberation, I have decided to keep my white walls, because they're still in good condition and I still and to have a feature wall. You know that my favourite colour is yellow, so I have decided to paint my red wall into a really nice bright happy sunshine yellow. To a lot of people, this would seem absolutely ghastly and horrible, but this is my room, and it's about me, and what I want and the colour yellow just makes me so happy to look at and enjoy.
As for my bedspread and curtains, I really really like it when they match, and actually what I did with my current pair was buy two double duvet covers, and sew them into curtains. I wouldn't mind doing this again, as I enjoy sewing, and last time it was more my mother who did the work, and I would like to have a go at it. However, I feel that if I bought a bedspread and made it into curtains, I may just end up in the exact same situation that I am in currently, where I want to change my bedding, but I can't because it wouldn't match my curtains. So, I have been contemplating just getting a nice normal pair of white curtains that would match anything and then going a little bit mad on the bedding.
But, then I was in Primark and I saw this amazing pineapple bedding and these cute little pineapple cushions, and you may know that I have a bit of a pineapple obsession at the moment, so now I'm thinking about that....
When it comes to furniture, I have quite a lot. I need a lot of storage because I have a lot stuff, and a lot of hobbies and I seem to collect pretty much everything. Like I said before, most of the furniture that I have, I've had for as long as I can remember and I have been having a good little look on Ikea and Homebase, and on Homebase, I have found this really nice brand of bedroom furniture called Scandinavia. It is a pine wood, I think, and is just this gorgeous honey coloured wood that I think would look really really good with my yellow walls. For quite sometime now, I have wanted a dressing table, and in this range they have a really good sized one for a very good price. How can I resist? From this range I would like to buy a dressing table, a wardrobe, a chest of drawers and a drawer stack. Obviously, I won't be buying it all at once, because my funds aren't particularly high, so as far as furniture is concerned, it will probably be quite a long term project.
When it comes to my carpet, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Actually, it is like a super magic carpet. I cannot tell you how many things I have spilt on it and it has just absorbed it all. I don't know exactly what I want, or if I even want a new carpet, but in my mind I'm picturing a beige colour, because I think it will look really light and fresh, and go really well with the wood and yellow.
Lastly, I want to talk about knick-knacks. At the moment my walls are just covered in stuff, like photos, artwork and mementoes of memories. When I paint my room I don't want to have too much stuff on the walls. I still would like to be able to look at things and I don't want completely bare walls. I think that when I go to Ikea I'm going to buy loads of photo frames (wood effect to match the furniture!) and just have all these cute postcards that I bought in them saying nice things. I also just love knick knacks! I want fill my room with the most ridiculous useless amazing stuff ever!
So, anyway, those are my plans, and what I will spend my summer doing!
See you soon!
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Sunday 28 June 2015
Sunday 7 June 2015
I'm addicted to floorplans.
You may not know this about me, but I am a huge fan of interior design. I love designing rooms and I actually made my own portfolio (impressive or what!?) I also spend about 87% of my time on my right move app (because I'm just that sad.) And today, I came to the realisation that I have a problem. The first step to solving a problem is admitting to it, so here goes.
I am addicted to floorplans.
I'm just going to let that sink in for a moment.
All sunken in? No? A few more lines, then I'll talk.
Right, now you should be completely ready to hear about this. Basically, whenever I look at houses on right move or whatever, the first thing before I look at anything else whatsoever, I go straight onto the floorplan. I refuse to even consider thinking about looking at something, unless it has a floorplan and I just don't know why! I must have some kind of weird thing in my brain (but, we already knew that) and I love looking at floorplans and just imaging walking around the house, going into each of the rooms, working out where I would put all of my stuff and how absolutely amazing it would look.
I am also a major day dreamer, and I constantly have my head in the clouds, dreaming about the day that I'll have a family and I'll be able to buy my own house and play with it to my hearts content (not in a weird way though...) I literally can see myself repainting all the rooms every couple of months and spending all my money on new furniture to give my house a new look and always trying something new. I am one of those people who always has to have a project going on.
Now that I think about it, you might not actually find this THAT weird. But let me tell you something. I am still in school. I probably won't need to even begin looking so a place to live for almost a decade or thereabouts. So what is this obsession I have with houses? At first I thought that I just liked looking at houses and looking at rooms and interior design and stuff, but now I know that sometimes, I click onto a house JUST to see the floorplan and I often don't bother doing anything else.
But something that annoys me, possibly more than anything else in the world, is when floorplans are drawn wrong. I have seen so many where there is a door missing and so it is seemingly impossible to get into the master bedroom, or where there have been incorrect labels and you suddenly have about 4 kitchens and no bathrooms. Ugh, drives me absolutely up the wall!
The thing that I love most about floorplans is when I look at them and they are completely huge and ridiculous (Over £5 million, slightly out of my price range) and you see the master bedroom with not just one ensuite and dressing room, oh no, but about 5, just for this one room! How can you even keep track of having so many clothes. If you had kids, and they woke up in the middle of the night, you'd have to be up all night trying to find them, because you would get lost in the maze of your house. I said that I love this, and I do because I just find it so ironic and funny, because when something is so huge, how can you ever fill it? How can you ever personalize it enough to be able to call it a home?
SO, thank you very very much for reading. I feel so much better for getting this off my chest, and I really hope that I can begin to work towards solving my problem. If you know of any floorplan anonymous groups, please let me know, and until then, I am going to be taking things one house at a time.
See you soon!
P.S. This is a joke. Mostly.
I am addicted to floorplans.
I'm just going to let that sink in for a moment.
All sunken in? No? A few more lines, then I'll talk.
Right, now you should be completely ready to hear about this. Basically, whenever I look at houses on right move or whatever, the first thing before I look at anything else whatsoever, I go straight onto the floorplan. I refuse to even consider thinking about looking at something, unless it has a floorplan and I just don't know why! I must have some kind of weird thing in my brain (but, we already knew that) and I love looking at floorplans and just imaging walking around the house, going into each of the rooms, working out where I would put all of my stuff and how absolutely amazing it would look.
I am also a major day dreamer, and I constantly have my head in the clouds, dreaming about the day that I'll have a family and I'll be able to buy my own house and play with it to my hearts content (not in a weird way though...) I literally can see myself repainting all the rooms every couple of months and spending all my money on new furniture to give my house a new look and always trying something new. I am one of those people who always has to have a project going on.
Now that I think about it, you might not actually find this THAT weird. But let me tell you something. I am still in school. I probably won't need to even begin looking so a place to live for almost a decade or thereabouts. So what is this obsession I have with houses? At first I thought that I just liked looking at houses and looking at rooms and interior design and stuff, but now I know that sometimes, I click onto a house JUST to see the floorplan and I often don't bother doing anything else.
But something that annoys me, possibly more than anything else in the world, is when floorplans are drawn wrong. I have seen so many where there is a door missing and so it is seemingly impossible to get into the master bedroom, or where there have been incorrect labels and you suddenly have about 4 kitchens and no bathrooms. Ugh, drives me absolutely up the wall!
The thing that I love most about floorplans is when I look at them and they are completely huge and ridiculous (Over £5 million, slightly out of my price range) and you see the master bedroom with not just one ensuite and dressing room, oh no, but about 5, just for this one room! How can you even keep track of having so many clothes. If you had kids, and they woke up in the middle of the night, you'd have to be up all night trying to find them, because you would get lost in the maze of your house. I said that I love this, and I do because I just find it so ironic and funny, because when something is so huge, how can you ever fill it? How can you ever personalize it enough to be able to call it a home?
SO, thank you very very much for reading. I feel so much better for getting this off my chest, and I really hope that I can begin to work towards solving my problem. If you know of any floorplan anonymous groups, please let me know, and until then, I am going to be taking things one house at a time.
See you soon!
P.S. This is a joke. Mostly.
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