how cool girls are decorating their bedroom
and there's not an LED strip light in sight
The cool girls are making a conscious effort to be sustainable and it really shows in how they decorate their bedrooms. They’re working with what they already have, buying second hand instead of new and transcending their bedroom into places of worship, creating shrines for themselves in front of their mirrors.
If you’ve ever zoomed into the background of the cool girl you follow online and caught a glimpse of her room in a mirror selfie, you know that the cool girl bedroom is a sort of designed chaos that can’t be replicated - the items are too niche or one off or weird. The cool girl bedroom is messy and deeply personal. A cool room needs to reflect you, your values, your inspiration, your lifestyle. Here’s how the cool girls are decorating their bedrooms.
The dressing table as a shrine
The dressing table is the cool girls shrine, they’re taping pictures of their friends to the mirror and renaissance art on the wall, there’s ominous quotes from a fortune cookie blue tacked to a jewellery box. Before them is a collection of things which mean something, amongst an array of candles, books and backs of earrings.
The cool girl dressing table is messy and undone, its a place to sit and be surrounded by the things that make you up, both inside and out. The table is filled and flamboyant, it’s a reflection of who sits there.
Inventive Storage
The cool girls are displaying their jewellery and heirlooms, but there’s not a display case in sight. They’re using vintage silver serving trays for plating up their necklaces and wine bottles from dinner parties past to stack up their bangles. There’s books piled up next to the bed to make table at just the right height. They’re getting inventive with their storage, re-using and re-purposing where they can. Things are easy to grab up and put on before running out the door.
Bedding Undone
When it comes to bedding, there is no theme but mismatch. The cool girls are layering their patterns, they’re mixing grandma’s hand-me-down floral sheets and childhood pink pillowcases with luxurious linen Piglet In Bed pieces.
Romanticising the Room
On the bedside table there’s always a book, a lamp and a fresh vase of flowers. The cool girls know that by romanticising their bedroom, they’re creating a space to dream and to dwell. Their bedside lamps are vintage or unique and there’s not an LED strip light in sight.
A xx