Home Sweet Home

Again, it’s been a while since my last update. But life has been keeping me on my toes as usual and I’ve been working on a couple of new bits and bobs for the blog, as a little celebration for when I hit 1400 readers. Absolute madness, you magnificent bunch. As you have seen from my last posts, I’m trying my hardest at the moment to make my house seem more homely. I can see a theme developing in my pastel coloured, bunting filled bedroom (seriously, you’d think there was a fete going on in there) I love my white furniture but as much as I enjoy ikea (Malm bed and all the trimmings) and what they stand for, I feel like some of their stuff takes ‘simple’ to the extreme. The Fashion From Home website has been giving me so much inspiration for more stylised looking furniture, which is still within my price range! But I have no where to put any new furniture, as my flat was partly furnished when we moved in, but this will all be going in the inspiration bank for a house of my own one day.

Marina Bench – £179.
Perfect for sitting infront of the bay/town house style windows. I can imagine this with a custom size foam cushion on top, upholstered with some lovely Cath Kidston fabric. Think the drawers underneath would be great for keeping spare bed covers, bath towels etc (we don’t have any cupboard space at all in this house and it proves problematic at times)

Marina Secretary Desk – £269.
I think when I am a ‘grown up’ I’d love my own office, with a beautiful desk like this and a desktop Mac. A girl can dream eh! I actually think if you got a lovely white mirror it would do great as a dressing table too. So pretty.

Grand Beige Premium 2 Seat Sofa – £649
Since all the sofas I have ever had in my flats have been inherited, borrowed or chosen by someone else, BIG pieces of furniture like this really excite me. They are always so bloody expensive, but I will be so satisfied when the day comes that I get to choose something like this for myself. The above would be completely unpractical in a house with children or animals (unless you have a death wish) but my goodness it is lush!

Fashion From Home aim to provide affordable designer furniture, without cutting corners on quality. While I only have limited creative control over my rented accomodation at the moment, looking around their site inspired me to get creative with the latest change to my bedroom – moving houses for the guinea pigs and making a little space for the new addition to my furry family 🙂

Before:

After:
 

I got a new cage from a local shed company, after eyeing up the cage Jennie has for Ralphie and deciding I wanted to get my boys something similar. Although the kitten hopefully won’t bother with the guinea pigs, as he’s a ragdoll and very laid back, I thought it was a better idea to move Oscar and Alfie in a house with a roof instead of their open top playpen. It also means that they are able to stay with Dougal too, rather than being in two separate cages 🙂 I painted the whole thing white, recovered the roof with some wax tablecloth material from Mandors, and painted a wooden loveheart blue to match for the centre of the cage.

Oscar peeping up to say hello!

Slightly smaller than their last cages, which I do feel guilty about but now I will be able to give them more floor time, as there is a lot more space for them in my room to run about safely. I’ve tried my hardest to block every nook and cranny off. They like to get under/in/about/behind EVERYTHING.

And now the wee fella’s corner 🙂 I say wee fella, as he is yet to be named!

I got everything above from pets at home, apart from the rug which I got from Ikea. They had so much beautiful stuff, a really great selection so I was able to choose accordingly and pick some things that matched the colour scheme of my room. 

This may all seem a bit vain ‘prettying’ up my pets surroundings, but while they turn my bedroom into a farmyard I think I have the right to make it look half decent :p But their comfort is my number one priority and I will always make sure these boys are spoiled. I’m really intrigued to see how the ragdoll kitten will get on with the piggies, anyone had any experience of this before?

Here he is! 🙂 Another picture update from the breeder. He who still has no name will be getting his last jags this week, neutured next week, and hopefully we will be able to pick him up next weekend. We literally have everything sitting ready, waiting for him to arrive. His little brown mask is starting to develop so much already, I can’t wait to see how his colouring turns out.

Now, I need your opinion on names. What is your favourite out of Dexter, Reuben, and Elliot?

Lots of love,

Ayden x