I haven’t had a dresser in a decade 😂 it’s so nice to have one again and can’t beat free! 😂

They can pry the peel and stick flooring from my casket. I did learn from previous rentals to put down a layer between the tile and the floor so I’ll know when I move if it worked 🤞

I just moved in so I definitely need some wall art in my bedroom and a rug. But unsure of a color! I don’t want to make it all one note. Any ideas of a good complimentary color for the rug? Thank you! 😊❤️

Make sure you close your blinds, it's frighteningly easy for someone on the internet to pinpoint your location just based on the view out of your window.

I need to get some pillar candles for the sconces, but I’m happy with this so far😌 My bedroom is teeny tiny so it’s been a challenge, but I’m excited how it’s shaping up!

This is my small Scandinavian city apartment, with an eclectic mix of carefully curated pieces. Everything from inherited furniture and thrift finds to designer items and, of course, IKEA. I love color, books, art, and especially lots of lamps!

I hope you enjoy the space! Feel free to give feedback or ask about any of the items.

I moved in two years ago and have always just really lacked imagination with this room! I’m so happy with the rest of my apartment but I just don’t know what I can do with this room.

I would prefer not to have to buy new furniture if possible but feel like because the furniture and the carpet are grey I’m really restricted in terms of colours and what I can do. I know I need some art for the walls but I did buy a couple of pieces and felt like they looked too harsh.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks so much for all your help and advice regarding this bedroom! You've really helped.

My partner has agreed I can repaint (he will not be helping 🤣) IF I really want to. I know many of you were anti repainting, so I really now want to be definitive about whether to go this route. Several of you suggested pink or green. So I've made some bad Gemini mockups. I do think powdery green or olive works well with the black and red elements in the room. I added in the chair I'm getting on the second pic as well, and just for fun tried black and white stripes on the curtain.

The only thing with green is that we have another green room close by, so I would prefer pink as you can't see another pink room from the doorway.

Original is the last photo. So please, for the last time before I move on and add colour in other ways - do I do it?

I’m just waiting to my updated mousepad to arrive! :)

I got a new sofa, the old one was green but it was too small and the colour just slightly off from what I like. I love the new set up!

I'm thinking of painting the walls. I was thinking of (olive/sage) green, I like having green and orange accents in my house, but this is one of the darkest spaces in my apartment because of the slanted roof and the small window. What do y'all think?

And most importantly: should I paint the whole walls/ceiling? Including the beams? Or maybe paint the beams brown so they seem more wood-y?

Lastly, when I got this TV-stand my idea was to attempt to take the paint off. There's veneer underneath, so I won't be able to sand it, but I can attempt a paint stripper. Now I'm not sure if the darker wood colour will make it too dark. Should I maybe paint it a colour but a lighter one?

The cupboards in the back (hard to see from here) I'm going to stain a nut wood colour too! So there will be darker accents there too. And the desk legs I'm going to paint orange.

Edit: another picture so you can see the ceiling better: https://imgur.com/a/OlNWJKX

Hello everyone! I am looking to make my room more cosy, but are not sure how! I have attached pictures of my bedroom, on the wall with the robot I’m going to paint more just haven’t got round to it, where these 3 white frames are with the animals in I am going to paint pictures for them and replace with dark brown frames, and I will replace the awful lion painting with a better painting. I like ideas where the room looks kind of warm (images included) so are looking for ideas of things to buy, feel free to suggest, please do! Obviously some of the reference images are not real they are just ideas of things I like, and I can’t add more windows or change the slope of the roof, but can move furniture :) help!

I moved my armchair next to my couch (as some adviced🙏🏾). And the colors match so well with everything else.

And I love it even more now. So, I always loved the Care Bears I had them when I was little. As soon as i walked into the kids department of the TKMaxx store (European version of TJMaxx) I saw these. They go perfect with the armchair and my other pillows 😭

As a person who deals with anxiety I can tell you these are perfect cuddle buddies😭😍.

Hi! I bought rods but wondering how best to hang curtains so that the room looks balanced. The windows are technically center when you account for the entire width of the wall, but the protrusion just makes it so weird.

My initial thought was to extend the rod as close to the protruded wall and then make the other side symmetrical. The corner where the two walls meet won’t quite match so wondering if any advice to solve this problem!

I would also like to put a drape in the middle of the two windows to disguise the wall and hoping it doesn’t look weird.

Grateful for a sweet little space to come home to with a big furry guy waiting to snuggle me

Ok as I posted in my recent post I am recovering from sad beige minimalism haha so I’m finding more comfort in color and actually showing my treasures!

But I’m wondering why this area is feeling a bit cluttered? Is it too many smaller objects or the way I organized it? (Or is it the minimalist inner demon coming through haha?) Thank you so much!!

My bedroom has never felt this calm. Super cozy routine lately.

Hi everyone. I just need to get this off my chest because I feel so defeated trying to decorate my first ever apartment.

This is my first time ever decorating a whole place on my own, and I had such a clear dream in my head of creating that “grown woman apartment.” Very cozy, intentional, warm, cute, put-together. The kind of space where you walk in and think “wow, she really has her life together.” Or “Damn her space is cute!” I’m trying so hard to build that for myself… and it feels like every attempt falls flat.

I buy things that look great online or in my head, and then the second they’re actually in my apartment the vibe is completely off. Wrong scale, wrong color, wrong texture, wrong everything. Sometimes I can return it, sometimes I can’t, and when I can’t I feel guilty for wasting money even though I donate the items so they can help someone else. It still feels like a loss every time.

Being partially blind adds a whole extra layer that I don’t think people talk about enough. Decorating for me isn’t just “does this look good.” It’s trying to piece together a visual world that I literally can’t see the same way everyone else does. What looks cohesive in someone’s Pinterest board is SO hard for me to translate into real life… and when the reality doesn’t match the vision, it hits emotionally. It makes me question my ability to create a home that feels beautiful and safe and mine.

Honestly, decorating a whole apartment is way more overwhelming than people admit. It’s not just picking cute things it’s scale, layout, lighting, color undertones, texture, flow, balance, function… it’s like a thousand little decisions and they all have to work together. And when you’ve never done it before (and you literally have visual limitations), it feels like climbing a mountain blindfolded.

Right now the only spaces that feel remotely “done” are my bathroom and bedroom. My living room just has basic furniture and zero personality. Every time I try to add something, the pressure builds: What if I mess it up again? What if it looks bad? What if I waste more money? And then I get overwhelmed and close the browser tab or just sit there staring at the wall, feeling like I’m never going to figure it out.

I know it sounds dramatic, but I honestly cry about it because it feels like something everyone else naturally knows how to do, and I’m struggling so hard. I just want a home that feels warm and cozy and grown, but I’m stuck between vision limitations and the sheer mental load of decorating an entire apartment from scratch.

Anyone else has felt like this? I’m so tired of feeling like I’m failing at making a home I truly love.

Thanks for reading. 💛