My Bedroom on Apartment Therapy

My bedroom was published on Apartment Therapy site. Yay:-)

You can see my entry here.

Carpe Diem,

M.

Before/After - my room in the US

Some ideas how to decorate with a very limited budget and when you know you will not be spending long there and you will not be able to bring home more then one suitcase.

I spent 2011 in the US working on my PhD in a town near Boston. This was my room. I know it looks very collegey:-) but I really liked it actually. I think the budget for decorating this room was lets say 80 USD (not including the cost for the bed which was somewhere around 200 USD) .

First night. Its not bad but it looked empty and impersonal. I bought the bed and borrowed everything else from friends.

So I used my clothing, posters and some things I found as a decoration. 

And this was my room for the last 3 months when I moved into smaller room in the same apartment.

Carpe Diem, M.

House Renovation Series - Pixel Art

This was a very fun project. Because the bones of our apartment are in neutral colors I added the interest and color with books, art and various objects in fun colors - especially pink, yellow and mint.

I made a picture for the living room out of paint swatches. Here are instructions in photos.

Don't just throw in all the colors, it look to random. Choose just a few colors or make gradients like I did and put similar colors together. 

Of course, its not completely perfect up close:-)

Carpe Diem, M.