my world, my bedroom

My very first post on this blog was about my uni bedroom here, but now I'm back home for the summer I thought I'd show you all some snaps of my room at home. 

I've wanted to be an interior designer my whole life but the decisions you make when you're at school kinda determine which way your life will go. I was sensible and chose to study something intellectual at uni instead of something creative, a decision which I now regret hugely. It's never too late to change your career path, but interior design is such a competitive industry and I'm not much of a risk taker. I've researched it and it seems pretty impossible to get into interior design without having studied it or without having loads of experience. Of course I could pursue it if I wanted to, but something in me just doesn't want to take that risk when the chances of it paying off are very slim. I mean, how can I compete with someone who can draw/knows how to use all the design computer programmes/has experience in the industry. I just can't. It's a shame because (without being big headed) I think I'm pretty good at interior design, it just comes naturally to me. I can remember going to sleepovers at my friends house when I was around 11 and I would lay awake at night redesigning their room in my head. I know.. weird right? By all means, if anyone has any advice for me about pursuing a career in interior design then I would really appreciate it.

That said, I am by no means insinuating that I'm god's gift to interior design. You're probably scrolling through the photos of my room right now thinking 'pffft, it's not THAT great' and I'd completely agree. My room is definitely not perfect. It was my pride and joy before I went to uni, but these days so much of my time is spent moving between the family home and my student house during the easter/christmas/summer holidays that it's hard to focus all of my efforts on just ONE room. I spend the most time at uni, so more effort goes into my uni room. Now I'm home for summer, I've tried my hardest to make my room at home feel homely again but it's really difficult. Half of the time I can't even be bothered to unpack my bunting/candles/trinkets etc because I have SO much stuff that I don't even know where to put them! So what I'm trying to say is, I'm still not 100% happy with my room (it hasn't been decorated for around 3 years either and my taste has changed since then!) but I hope you like what I've done with it since I've been back from uni :)

 (Took these photos on the 19th July but haven't posted til now, oops!)

What do you think?

xxx