It Is Almost A Real House Now

The house is coming together nicely! I have been very busy decorating, painting and assembling furniture, there is still loads more to do but I am enjoying it :) I still haven't got round to taking actual good quality pictures of the house, but I made a collage of some of the ones I took on my phone.

 Left to right: 

1. Wrapping paper from Paperchase I used to line the inside of my kitchen cupboards

2. Kitchen window with flowers my mum got me (from their garden!)

3. Sofa cover, I went for off-white instead of pink in the end

4. Curtain between the living room and bedroom, you can't see the leaf print very well but it looks amazing!

5. The table! I love it so much. It folds out twice as big as this. The little stool is also new, the colour fits perfectly with the rest

6. Wardrobe. I bought it from a charity shop, it was dark brown wood which was super depressing so I painted it mint with coral details :)

7. Book case and birdie chair. This isn't new stuff, I've had these things in my old flat for ages but they look so much nicer now that they have more space

8. Owl-shaped drawer knobs I found in Paperchase. I love them so much.

9. Teapot that I bought today at the Emaillekeizer on the Albert Cuyp market :)

10. Lamp in the corridor

11. Fabric for the living room/kitchen curtains :D I had been struggling to decide on a fabric for a few weeks, I thought a plain colour would make the house too serious but at the same time I didn't want to a print I might get tired of. These retro trees have a bit of a Scandinavian design feel about them which is exactly what the house needs

12. And what will truly make my house a home, my girlfriend who I have known for exactly a year and two days today :)

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams

What do you think of when you imagine the future in which you are finally grown up and have your shit together? I guess a lot of people think of jobs, marriages and babies, but in my mind my future consists entirely of having a really nice house. Not a big house, not even necesarrily a house that I own (I can barely deal with the responsibility of having to pay rent, I doubt I could ever be arsed to even look into what exactly a mortgage even IS) and it's not full of designer furniture. 

My dream house is a small, old ground-floor house in Amsterdam. The livingroom has lots of shelves full of books and quirky, interesting objects, and there is a massive sofa full of cushions and throws. 

One wall is covered in loud wallpaper, with a massive shelf dedicated to my collection of teapots, and one for my records. There is a room intended as a guest bedroom that I will use entirely for my clothes and shoes. The bedroom is the cosiest room in the house, and it has a corner with a table for sewing and general DYI love. 

The kitchen has a black and white checker-board floor and is full of weird cute kitchenware. And there is a pastel coloured Smeg fridge. That is genuinly one of the most important things.

There is a tiny garden full of plants and some cute wooden furniture painted in bright colours, and there is even a tree which I will decorate with lights. I will live there either with a good friend or potentially with a yet to be specified future lover. 

 

The perfect life to go with this perfect house would be being a writer/journalist and mostly working from home so I can have enough time to keep it nice (do not tell me this is not feminist, I just really like houses and am choosing entirely independently to dedicate a big part of my life to living in a house)

Of course now that I live in a big student house in bonny Southampton I can't go completely crazy decorating, BUT if I do say so myself I managed to make my room look pretty awesome just by putting my stuff in it:

 

 

When I manage to get something resembling this dreamhouse I will change the topic of this blog from 'anything I feel like writing about' to 'confessions of a home decorator-zilla'

 (All photos found on Pinterest, except the last 4 which are my own)