While we were looking to buy our flat we originally decided to buy two bedrooms, so then the second bedroom can be an office for Chris. While I can work away on my laptop sat on the sofa, Chris needs a dedicated working space, mostly because he can spend hours coding away on his pc, and because he’s hoping to become self employed in the next few years. Sadly we didn’t find a two bedroom flat in our budget that we liked, and although our flat is only a one bed, it’s larger than your average flat. So without the extra room, Chris’s desk is sat in the corner of our lounge. While it doesn’t really affect us, it does mean that we couldn’t decorate Chris’s office in the way we’d originally thought of.
As we’ve only been in the flat just over a month, there’s still a lot of work to do before it’s decorated how we want. We’ve only managed to paint the lounge and our bedroom, and the walls are still looking pretty bare, but it’s starting to feel a bit more homey. The majority of my weekends are now spent browsing home shops, looking for cheap ways to make my flat look pretty. Money is a little tighter now that we have the flat, so we’re being a lot more careful with our spending than we used to be when we lived at home (oh how I miss those carefree days), so I don’t want to spend a fortune on making my house look like a home.
When Room4 Interiors got in touch to see if I’d like to take part in their latest campaign, the Blogger Desk Challenge, I thought this would be a great chance to make Chris’s desk look a little more pretty. Basically each blogger taking part in the campaign is given £20 to makeover their desks, and can do so in anyway they want as long as it’s in the budget. I had so many ideas for how I wanted to do up the desk, making it look all pretty and colourful. But as sadly it’s Chris’s desk, not mine, I had to make it look suitable for a boy stupid boys.
