Room Tour: Spare Room

The spare room without a doubt is the room I'm proudest of and the room that needed the most work, as the previous owners ran an at home beauty salon from it.

Before

When I first said I wanted to paint the room deep blue with rose gold accents the husband and family weren't convinced, but I'm so glad I stuck to my guns as its turned out better than I could of hoped.

The room used to be the master before our loft extension so I knew it was big enough to take a dark colour and as the rest of the house is a soft neutral palette I wanted to play around with a richer colour in this room.

I have been in rose gold for-EVER now and wanted to incorporate it into the room, but with rose gold beds going for £500 my budget didn't really stretch to that so instead I got a little creative and decided to up cycle some old furniture.  I spray painted my old childhood bed using this spray paint, and then started piecing together other rose gold accessories from the high street.

Side table - Matalan (a bargain at only £8!)

Lamp - Home Sense

Photo Frame - Paperchase

Ceiling light - Made.com

Wire baskets - Matalan (similar here) 

Now that our guests have the perfect place to stay my next project is our room!

Washi Tape Obsessive

We are desperately saving for a house of our own at the moment as the wedding kind of went over budget and cleared out our savings (oops!) At the moment we are living in a gorgeous rented house which I totally love but I don't see why just because we are renting we shouldn't put our own stamp on it. We moved in just before the wedding and have spent time buying key pieces and creating rooms we love that will work in our next house - when we get round to buying it!

The last room we've not really done anything with was our spare room which Brett was using as an office. A new job meant this room was now redundant and it sparked my creative juices to create a focal wall for my new dressing room. Enter Washi tape! This stuff is genius, cheap, available in pretty much any colour or pattern and the best bit it can be stuck onto a wall and taken off without damaging the wall - perfect for renters like us!

I bought my tape from Ikea but Etsy, Paperchase & Ebay all sell a great selection, I collected a few of my favourite photos, momentums and printed some of my favourite Pinterest quotes & pictures and got creative. My favourite has to be the double bordered picture but the options are endless and when I get bored or have new photos I can just switch it up!