9/7/10

a room of her own

Random rings that I've been wearing, from left: Octopus Me on etsy, forever 21, old American Eagle, estate sale. Below: new bowl and cup from Anthropologie and Starbucks, respectively. I figured that it's about time to show off my new digs, seeing as I'm finally all settled in and back into the swing of things. I had a clear plan in mind when I was getting ready to move in, and that really helped to streamline the process and helped me to get my space too look exactly how I wanted it to.
I knew that, although bigger than last year, my room was going to be relatively small. I also knew that I needed a comfortable living space, so I decided to loft my bed up high and bring in this vintage love seat from home. This has proven to be a great idea, because I'm much more comfortable working in my room now, and I actually utilize all the space that I am given.
As far as closet space goes, I didn't want to make the same mistake as last year of bringing too many clothes and getting frustrated with an imbalanced and overstuffed closet. So, along with a few new key pieces, I updated and simplified my wardrobe to only include those pieces that I knew could work week after week and still be able to change up. I'm working on forming a working wardrobe, and I think I'm much closer to that now.
I organized my desk so that I used the space efficiently, and as far as decorating my wall I took a whole bunch of photographs that I've saved to my pictures folder over the years and printed them out on heavy cream colored card stock. I used sticky tack to put them up, and voila! A cheap and completely unique wall space, which I'm pretty excited about. I think that my wall is my favorite part of the room, because every day I can look at photographs that inspire me artistically and stylistically. I'm really excited to get this year going!

credits: None of the photographs pictured on my wall are mine, they are from many different sources including Etsy, Sarah McNeil, Deerlings.blogspot.com, fashion editorials, and unknown sources. The Polaroids are a set of note cards from Urban Outfitters.

So, how do you decorate your space?

8 comments:

  1. Just ran across your blog for the first time today! Love it!

    I really like your inspiration wall, and the love seat under the bed looks so cozy and inviting.

    I had to move back in with my parents after college, and I have way too much stuff for the one room I'm in. Lots of books and fabric and art supplies and baskets and little things from antique stores...

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  2. That is about the neatest dorm room I have ever seen. My boyfriend & I are staying with friends right now, so only our room is decorated in our style http://www.flickr.com/photos/weasel_lobotomy/sets/72157624724602197/ but we have done some wild decorating in the past http://www.flickr.com/photos/weasel_lobotomy/collections/72157604133534472/

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  3. Your room is cute as! I love your wall with the pictures, so inspiring! I have been wanting to put bunting all over my walls with vintage paper in the triangles! And a shelf with my old camera collection. hope you have a great week lady!! :)

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  4. hey darling, pip speaking. Your room looks fantastic! How's school! Do you have a mailing address, i'll write you a letter. I hope everything is going well...i'm keeping up with your posts- here and on tumblr. if you can ever make it to nyc we sshould go thrifting!

    Loveees

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  5. good use of space! It would be hard figuring out what to take...and move everything like that I imagine! I like your wall as well

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  6. You have such a lovely blog! I adore your new space I think you used the room up perfectly and I have always wanted to sleep on a bed like that!

    Ayesha x

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