An Oxon Room

As promised, I present to you, drum roll please...my Room in Oxford! (Thunderous clapping).

If you'd like to see more, you can visit my section on Home Improvement and my Budget Room Makeover.

Background

Even though I am at Oxford only temporarily (one year), it doesn't make much sense to really doll up  my room. But I simply couldn't live without making it my own personal space, which many a people have entered and exclaimed, "So, you like PINK!" Yes. I like pink.

I mooched off a lot from my Mom's old apartment which she left behind before she moved back to India (Thanks Mom!). I must also thank my flatmate Katie Doig for being my inspiration to really transform my room (from what it originally was - pictures have, out of sheer necessity and good for the mankind, been burnt).Well, the real reason is that as I wasn't sure I was going to be putting this up on my relatively recent blog, I did not manage to take 'before' pictures. I do however have the end result which I am more than willing to share.

Bookshelves
Just to explain the shopping bags on the bookshelves - I was desperate to have some color in my room and took these amazing hot pink shopping bags that came with my stuff at House of Fraser and put them up on the shelves to give life to my room and balance out my Duvet cover and bed sheets from Primark. To tone down the pinks I put the navy blue Zara shopping bag and the beige Burberry shopping bag to merge and bring down the starkness of the pink. Its all about balance! You can also notice my guilty pleasures in Pic #7.

On the bookshelves above my desk you can notice my collection of wonderful BOP and non-BOP hats. BoP - Big Open Party, an Oxford tradition. (:P)

Accessories
As I said in my previous post, Budget Room Makeover 2011, I always display accessories which are of sentimental value. The wall of the bottom-most shelf is lined with postcards, magnets, a photo-card and other things of special importance to me which hold some form of memory or sentimental value. The notice board has cards, an Oxford map, my Blog Board for inspiration, the table place-card from my first Graduate Dinner at College, postcards from Black Swan that I saw at this cutesy theatre in Jericho with Nicole and the lovely french ladies, Julie and Laura, the mesh heart (Picture #6) that I bought with Katya at a Christmas Market in Bath, a Birthday card from Mimi, who's blog is just mouthwatering! And a Christmas card from Paolo. The bookshelf above my desk has my parents vintage photo from when they were newly-weds and the various hats lined up in ascending order of size.

Settee
I took the rectangular table provided by the College and took the extra duvet given by the College and turned it into a Settee-cum-shoe shelf. I may not have all that many things to decorate my notice-boards or room but I do have a lot of shoes which require an ample amount of storage.

Retro

Now, regarding the inherent theme my room has, that is, Retro. I was hoping it would be Victorian, oak-woody, etc. Unfortunately, or fortunately (my friends in such Victorian rooms will tell you how cold their rooms/homes are despite the heating!), I have a retro-architecture room since the complex I live in was built in 1991, as mentioned by the ChCh JCR, and described as having a groovy view, makes one think whether or not it was built in the 1970s. The steel wall-lamps provided also give a very groovy-retro feel, which I say the inherent theme of the room is, well, Retro.

All in all, its a pretty room with a 'groovy' view and is bigger than most other rooms I've come across here, which will serve me well when I will need to pace while I study for Finals.

More Later!

Sneak Peak: Scarves!

x G

P.S.: I need a new camera (d-SLR). Would love suggestions!