The Palm Springs poster was initially my main image but after a lot of backwards and forwards I’m so glad I switched to the Amalfi coast shot as I am absolutely in love with it.
Why wasn’t I hosting casual outdoor cocktail parties around my outdoor pool? Life seemed so unfair. I started by searching Desenio for ‘Palm Springs’ as I’d recently seen a feature in a homes magazine about a pink mid-century bungalow in Palm Springs and I was positively lusting after it.
The theme for my collage is travel, because having the time and the money to explore the world a bit more is only really something that’s happened in the last few years and I want to remind myself of how much I enjoy it. The way the sea in this picture mirrors the colours in this pot is extremely satisfying. Inspired by one of my hanging plant pots, I picked out a selection of pictures in pale pinks and darker blues. I wanted to carry on the pink theme, but to bring in an accent colour too. On the wall opposite my bed, which you only really see properly when you are IN the bed, I wanted something a bit less ‘early Spice Girls’ and a bit more ‘sophisticated woman of the world’. They’re the first thing I see when I go in the room and honestly, who doesn’t like being reminded what a badass they are? It’s like my plants are giving me a pep talk and I love it. I chose them not just for the sassiness, but also to pick out the pinks in my bed and ceiling light, and I think they both work really well. I mean come on, they’re pretty cool aren’t they? I will say here that I’m not a fan as a rule of motivational quotes – the whole ‘dance like no one’s watching’ thing – but I can be swayed by a sassy affirmation.
On the wall above my bed I picked out a couple of text based prints – one to replace the abandoned factory photo and one to create a cute mini scene above one of my bedside tables. I spent a loooooong time choosing my pictures and in the end I took a couple of different routes. You even get to choose the background colour so you can see how it would look in your room. You know the kind of thing.ĭesenio sells a massive range of primarily Scandinavian inspired prints, posters and frames, some from well-known artists and photographers and other designed exclusively for Desenio.ĭesenio is really big on gallery walls, so they have loads of collections of pictures put together on different themes if you want to choose and customise something that’s been curated for you, or they have a brilliant tool to help you create your own gallery wall, where you can pick your favourite prints and frames and see how they look in different combinations. What I needed was some kind of lovely collage of beautiful images that made me feel uplifted and inspired and like I might at any moment fly to Venice or stand in a field of wheat with my hands in the air. I love the photo, but it’s not exactly bedroom vibes. I always say that plants and pictures are what make a house into a home, and yet for the last two years the only picture I’ve had in my bedroom has been a black and white photograph of the inside of an abandoned factory. It was almost worth breaking up just for that.) For ages my bedroom has been basically like a cheap hotel room – a bed, the wardrobe and a couple of bedside tables, and that’s it.įor quite a while I didn’t even have curtains, which added a fun, extra dimension to getting dressed, but then I got the new blind and it started to feel a bit more like a space I wanted to enjoy being in, rather than just somewhere to go to sleep. (Can you imagine if I had had to share the wardrobes? What a nightmare. When we moved in I spray painted my bed pink in an act of newly single rebellion, and then I had the wardrobes built, but apart from that I’ve done very little to my bedroom. Can you believe I’ve been in my new house for over two years? It’s weird – it’s one of those things that hardly feels like any time at all, and yet I can’t imagine being anywhere else.
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