Final Reveal *Project: Bachelor Pad*

{Medieval Headboard + Yellow/White Striped Painting}

It's finally out. The final reveal for The Passi's Bachelor Pad, hopefully not for too long. No, no, don't worry. I'm not insinuating anything, least of all to The Passi. It was interesting doing up his place, mostly because it led to three major realizations:

1. $1000 is not a lot of money.
2. Indian home stores are actually pretty good and quite inexpensive.
3. America is really expensive when it comes to furniture (and rugs), and sometimes it's not even that good.

Oh and one more. Target isn't too bad if you're starting out. Look and you shall find. I had to make a lot of sacrifices. He literally would have to hold and pull me away from stores and things I wanted to pick out for the place. I was obsessed. 

But, since the budget wasn't too high for a quick revamp, I kept to places like craigslist, Target and TJ Maxx and we found quite a few inexpensive and lovely things. Bear in mind, the flat was done from scratch, not a lot of money and although I prefer filled up walls and a little bit of chaotic symmetry, classic and modern styles mixed in, The Passi prefers clean empty walls and spartan modern design. So there had to be a bit of compromise. I also refurbished a few old things of his to use and decorate the place with. Oh and re photos, the sun wasn't very kind to us that weekend, which is why all the lamps are on during the day. Hope you enjoy the little tour!

Image above: I prefer plastic flowers to real ones, and prefer twiggy flowers like lavenders or long stemmed sunflowers. The curtain rod atop the window is actually a longbow. The Passi is an avid archer and we thought bringing some of his interests into the decoration would make this flat feel more homely. The paintings on either side of the window were done by me. We both love yellow and a solid yellow canvas was just what the room needed to bring more life into it.

You may notice that the room contains a platform bed. We weren't impressed very much with the regular beds and the box spring concept. In his previous apartment The Passi had a floor arrangement in his bedroom and had two XL twin spring mattresses. While he was keen on a memory foam king mattress, the budget was being overshot by over $600. 

Luckily, we found a local craftsmen, who made bed frames from refurbished wood, packing up his business for something new and decided to sell the beds for a pretty heavy discount. We asked him to tweak the measurements a little bit so it could fit the twins and voila, a beautiful pine wood bed for less than $200. To make the spring mattresses more comfortable we added a memory foam mattress topper from Target and it's one of the most comfortable beds I've slept on.

Image above: The wall behind the bed was missing a little something-something. We found this light medieval looking door at Hobby Lobby. We put it up on the wall so it may work as a pseudo-headboard-wall-art for the empty room. We had extra chairs lying about that his previous roommate left behind and instead of throwing them away converted one into a bed side table and one as a step that sits comfortably hidden away in his walk-in.

Image above: We changed the loo cover to make it slightly more interesting and give the room a bit more color. We had picked up the beach sign a few years ago and he's held on that so keeping with the beachy/nautical look of the shower curtain we went with nautical for the entire loo. There's even a sailor-like wine jug.

{A reminder to look forward to sunny, breezy days on the beach}

{Sailor's Wine}

Image above: My favorite part of the living room is this 1950's couch that we got off craigslist that cost us about $75. Its in great condition for its age and even has a sturdy pull-out bed for when guests are over. Ignore the food on the table, we were preparing for the housewarming while these pictures were being taken. The table on either side of the couch are chests that we picked up from TJ Maxx and act as a good storage space as well good looking side tables. Being as it is, quite a small apartment, the long horizontally placed mirror give the room a bit of depth and makes it seem slightly bigger than usual. We've tried to incorporate vintage and modern furniture along with a bit of the 60's with the lava lamp next to the couch.

{The bar ready to serve up cocktails along with The Passi's Curve Bow}

Lesson learnt at the end of this blog post: Only take vertical photographs. Geez.

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Photo Credits and Copyright: All photos have been taken by Gayatri Kumar and belong to Look who's Wearing (LwW)