As promised, below are some more images of my home featured on IKEA Live Magazine. Once I have the Spare Bedroom completed I will share the photographs with you. I am looking forward to Spring time and some sunshine, it is very difficult to take good photographs when the weather is so miserable.

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My Spare Bedroom

 

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My Bathroom

 

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To read about my home visit IKEA Live Magazine February Edition

I came across these wonderful bedroom images below on the House to Home website, what do you think? I love them all, some are country cottage style, others lovely pastel colours, some vibrant colours and lots of patchwork and pattern too. You could spend ages and ages on their website looking through all the interiors, so much inspiration.... Now all I have to do is decide what way I want my spare bedroom to look...

{All images: House to Home}

Shabby Chic White Bedrooms :)

Some images of items you will find in my spare bedroom. I spent this afternoon cleaning floors, cleaning my new kitchen units, trying to order wedding invites and moving a few items to the new home. What have you been up to? I am finished with my job and starting my new job in January so that gives me a bit of time to start ticking items of my "to do" list. Tomorrow I want to try and move some furniture to the new house but it is so wet I may have to wait until the rain clears. 

How about these for pretty bedrooms? You might have guessed I like blue and the country cottage look. I have a walk in wardrobe for my new room so the room itself will be less cluttered. Which is your favourite? Have you any favourite bedrooms yourself? If so, I'd be delighted if you'd share them with us all :)

Yesterday I went to IKEA and again I bought nothing, I went along with family so it wasn't a wasted journey, I get lots of inspiration there and see some really nice ideas. I love the way their living rooms are multi purpose rooms, in Ireland newer homes tend to have the tv, the seating and the fireplace with maybe a coffee table and one shelf in the sitting room. Few people have a living room now, and if they do it just tends to be another sitting room focused around the tv. I would perfer to have a living room that is more than a tv room, one with place for the laptop, all my books at hand, my ornaments and lots of personal belonging. I know people now have studies in their homes and my parents have one, but sometimes I don't like having to go off on my own into the study to look at my books. Do you get what I am talking about??

Anyway here are a few items I really like in IKEA

I love the Billy Bookcases and I would need that wee stool as I am quite small. I think this whole unit cost around €357.

I also came across these lovely wardrobes- so pretty in white and look nice against the blue walls. My bedroom is painted this blue colour.

Here is a matching bed

And more pretty bedroom furniture

Oh and I just adore these Ektorp Sofas

Just another of my interior design idea pages that I prepared last year, this one focuses on a bedroom with hues of blue. Blue reminds me of the sky, the lakes and the ocean here at home in Ireland. I love blue, especially baby blue. This bedroom has an airy feel with hues of blue from the sky, lakes and ocean. It takes a crisp white palette and adds hints of blue. This creates a truly calming and relaxing retreat which soothes and brings tranquility into your life. Enjoy!

 

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If you like some built in wardrobes for storage here is a nice range from John Lewis. Isn't the wee fireplace cute adding some character to this room, to me it is pretty but somewhat claustrophobic with the units built all around the bed. The wallpaper on the chimney breast adds a bit of elegant to this room.

This room found on Channel 4 Homes website is so me! I love the simple colour palette of white and blue, the detail on the bed is really sophisticated and the mirror dressing table is very glamorous. Again this room has a girly chandelier- Love it! The different shades and patterns of floral blues tie the room together.

From Ideal Home, this bedroom is most like my bedroom at home only I have white windows and lighter pine wood furniture.

Another wonderful bedroom which I adore from Country Living, it is very eclectic and has a mix of colours which for me works really well, there is a mix of traditional and modern and of metal and wood but all ties so well together. I am not into positioning beds up against windows as it blocks light and for me never looks just right- I like to be able to see the window and light from my bed :)

As you may have realised I like my blue bedrooms. This is another room from Ideal Home I would never think of a blue and white bedroom with a hint of red but this modern folk bedroom is really pretty and stylish, don't you think??? I really like the floral patern on the bed linen and the red curtains! This bed is the same type of bed as mine only mine is in pine. I like enclosed lockers to keep my books and pens in however I really like these ones they are very simple and pretty and I'm sure they are cheaper too :)

This pale bedroom is very serene and relaxing and looks like an ideal place to relax. It is from Ideal Home. I can just see my wee tattered teddy sitting on the bed, but for some reason I  feel the need to add a hint of pink or blue, I think that's because colours create a sense of warmth and as the weather isn't that sunny or warm in Ireland I like to make a place feel warm. An all white palette is just too cold and clinical for me so I would pop a wee pink or blue fluffy cushion in the middle of this bed or a colourful crochet blanket at the bottom just like this one

  

Hope you enjoy looking at these beautiful bedrooms with me and get some inspiration from them, are there any bedrooms or styles  in particular that you like?

I went to IKEA in Dublin this weekend, it was my first time there. Unfortunatley when I got there and took out my camera the batteries were dead, I was sure I had them charged :( It has some lovely products and others not so practical. It is a great place for inspiration and there is everything you can imagine for your home. The little rooms are set out very well with lots of storage space. Above are some photos of some of the bedroom furniture I particularly liked. The bedrooms and living spaces were my favourite. The white billy bookcases with the glass doors and lights overhead are very elegant for not only storing books but displaying some of your favourite objects. If you are planning a trip to IKEA, don't go on a Sunday as it's families day out and the place is packed, if you have a day off during the week, it may be better to visit, they also have late enough opening times so the afternooon may be a good time. I enjoyed my trip and will go again some time :)