Moving Into A Mansion!

The funky rug in my bedroom ft. pink rabbit slippers.

Last Friday I moved back down to Bournemouth, and into a brand new student house! After experiencing Halls last year whilst completing my Art Foundation, I decided that it would be more convenient, slightly cheaper and more ‘grown up’ to move in with a couple of friends to a house closer to my university. We found this 5-bed house, full of character and charm, but with enough modern influence to suit our lifestyles. We all chose our rooms, and I fell in love with the ground floor, double room with bay window, cream walls and wooden floor. It’s such a ‘me’ room and was just asking for a massive injection of pink to brighten it up!

My unfinished imperfect makeup desk.

The stairs.

The garden, palm tree and pond.

The bay window is my favourite part of the room. I’ve always viewed bay windows as being very Princess-like and a beautiful way to add lots of light into the space. I haven’t completely decided what I want to put in my window. Whether to leave it completely empty to really open up the space, or find an arm chair and stool for a place to chill and contemplate life.

My bay window.

The double bed is fantastic for me, even though I am only a small person, the extra room will be really handy for when I have friends round, especially as the wooden floors mean that this room is a tad chilly. It’s all ok though, I’ll just invest in some pink loungewear and fluffy jumpers in the winter. I bought a duvet and pillow set from IKEA in the same pale pink Toile de Jour print that is on my wallpaper back home. It’s my most favourite print ever, and I feel like I’ve brought a little bit of home with me down here! The throw has come from my bed at home as I felt it would be more handy being with me here! It’s a pink king-size throw with embroidered white flowers from Dunelm Mill. It’s really cosy and also makes my bed look pretty awesome.

My princess bed with all 10 pillows.

Wooden units, and my pink towel.

My cushion collection is just that, a collection of cushions that has built up over the years! My latest additions are the two pink and white gingham cushions from IKEA and are handy square shapes. The little heart pillow is from Primark, as is the grey fluffy one. The satin pink one is from Dunelm Mill and the feathery pink one was a gift from my boyfriends mum.

Art deco fireplace.

Too add just a little more princessness into the room, there’s also an original art deco fireplace with a wooden mantelpiece in the centre of the room. It’s a real statement piece, and very artistic. My landlord told me that my room actually used to be the family dining room, which explains the context behind the funky fireplace. Unfortunately the fireplace does not work, but instead is a lovely plinth for a large mirror on top in which I do my makeup.

The living room.

An arty shot of the dining table/ living room.

The rest of the house is very lovely, which is so strange for a student house, but very lucky for us! We have a big kitchen, with lots of light and storage space. The bathrooms are very standard. Our living room is perfect for us, lots of room to hold pre-drinks and house parties, as well as being very comfortable and homey for film nights in and studying around deadlines. We have a conservatory, which seems to be doubling up as our drying room, and a large garden with a roomy patio. Just to add even more fancy to the house, we have a pond, waterfall and fish which the gardener looks after every few weeks! Crazy eh!?

I am buzzing for this year. I have Freshers week next week, which is involving a lot of dressing up costumes and hopefully a lot of vodka, Lidl’s version of Southern Comfort and Subway’s at 4am.  And then I begin my degree course the following week. I cannot wait!

Conservatory/ drying room/ sauna/ greenhouse.

I am hoping to make as many blog posts as I can this year, both as a memory bank for me and hopefully an interesting read for you. Thanks for reading, and I’ll be back soon with possibly a makeup related post.

The kitchen.

Peace out girl scouts, Zoë xxx