Now it's gone all cold outside, you're going to be spending a lot more time in your dingy flat due to you know, you getting old and no longer thinking it's fun to trek across town in zero degree weather with the threat of a train failure due to poor weather hanging over you head. Thanks to this (and your flatmate and his weird friends) you're going to be spending a lot of time in your room. Shame it doesn't look like the ones you spend your lunchbreaks dribbling over on Pinterest.
While we can't help you massively with that - what we can do is give you easy, cheap ways to cover up the worst of your rented nightmare of a bedroom's flaws.
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That battered old dresser
That hideous chest of drawers your nan gave you when you moved in to yor first rented house? While rather roomy and very useful it looks like hell. Being penniless though, you’ve got no option but to soldier on with it. You’d paint it, but that seems like a lot of effort. These sexy little knobs (54p) screw in super easily and do a stand up job drawing peoples' attention away from the nicks and scuffs on the body. Which is what you want really.
Those blu-tack marks on the wall
Now you're grown up enough to take down your perfume advert collage from the wall, you're left with a bunch of unsightly blu-tack marks that scream 'filthy bedsit' from the top of their sticky little lungs. Cover them up with these super cheap frames (£3.99) which are made for records (pinch them from your dad) or you can fill with art you've printed out secretly on your work computer. The point it, they're big and cover up alot.
Your legions of crap
If you're under the impression that displaying all your trinkets and the like around your room makes it look homey and lived in, then you're wrong. It actually only adds to making the whole room look like the dwelling of a mad woman. You don't have to throw your stuff away, but you do need to hide it. These boxes (£1) are greats for hiding all manner of sins. Including that teddy bear you brought back from slags on tour to Malaga in 2007. Vomit stains and all.
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Your stained and dirty bedding
Bedding is something that needs to be invested in; like that stuff your mum and dad have had for ten years that's still the comfiest thing that ever existed. That's what happens when you buy into quality my friend. Sadly you can't afford quality and all the duvet sets you can afford feel like they're probably flammable. Sadly though yours are fucked; covered in fake tan and ketchup stains that no amount of the fake Vanish Oxi Action powder you bought a Poundland will shift. So while you're saving for Egyptian Cotton, cover the whole bed with this nice (and very affordable) bedspread (£6.99).
That tattered and hated globe lampshade
Something of a standard in rented accomodation, the old IKEA paper globe lampshade collects dust, rips if you so much as touch it and exists purely to inform visitors to your room that you're in an age of perpetual studentism. This snazzy lampshade* *(£7) is the pop of colour your boring white room is after, plus, it'll give the whole thing a cosy warm glow. Excellent for winter.
**Total: £19.52 **
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.