036. Buy a dressing table and finish the guest room

Before Christmas the 2nd bedroom was a mess! It was a dumping ground for, just, stuff! Everywhere! Look at these pre-Christmas mess photos:




It's took a little while and a threatening visit from my parents to get us finally finished off in here. Look at how wondrous it looks now!

Completely full of IKEA, but I love it! I wonder how long it will stay this neat?

036. Buy a dressing table and finish the guest room

I finally got my dream dressing table. It's from IKEA and is from the Hemnes series. The drawers are also Hemnes and it all fits together beautifully.

The drawers and dressing table are now full of all my wonderful beauty bits and pieces.

The guest room isn't exactly finished, but this is as good as it's going to get at the moment. Now we've just go to decide if we want to keep the bed, or ditch it for a sofa/sofa-bed instead.

036. Buy a dressing table and finish the guest room

After a day shopping in Westfield Stratford and a stay over in an Essex Travelodge it was time for a visit to IKEA to finally buy a dressing table and drawers. The time has come to finish the 'guest room' and get it looking pretty and organised, just like we did with the office last Christmas.
I settled on the perfect IKEA Hemnes dressing table and chest of 6 drawers to match. We have Hemnes living room furniture as well, it's one of the series that IKEA make that's solid wood and it's important for us to have long lasting as well as good looking furniture.
Unfortunately the Lakeside branch had sold out of the dressing table, but we did manage to get the all important chest of drawers. So much more about tidying the guest room is about replacing my broken drawers and organising all my things into a new set of drawers that it was more important we came away with those.
We also picked up an Ingolf chair to go with my dressing table (when we order it online) and a few other bits such as frames and three packs of the Skubb boxes for inside my new drawers.
When everything has arrived, been assembled and is looking perfectly tidy, I will share more pics! The above pics were taken in store today, I really love the fairy lights around the mirror! I think that might be a step to far.....