It's really tricky when you don't have enough bedrooms (two bed flat). I can remember always wanting my own room at that age too, so I know how important it is to have at least some personal space to call your own. With very limited funds, I have done this to their room. I looked around the internet a lot for some inspiration but couldn't really find much, so I thought I'd post about it here in case anyone else is in the same boat and could get any ideas.

I am at least lucky enough that the room has two windows. I didn't want to do anything permanent or costly, so I found some dividers that can be moved around to suit them, and can make a completely enclosed room if needed (I found everything on amazon and Ikea).

I also took down their bunk beds, and bought two singles with storage space underneath for their clothes.

I had this old table in the garage so I painted it up for my son to use.

The beds took up more space than I was expecting!

This is where you walk into the room. (I took these before hoovering, oops!)

Love this new alpine bedding for my boy...

Otter is also very impressed with the quality of her new room(s)!

I found these ladder style shelves very cheaply online and they are great for small spaces.

And this that she can fill up with her collection of stationery. It has wheels so really handy to tuck in a small gap.

Big boy desk!

I hope this arrangement will do for a couple of years at least!

...This was how it was before, I loved it but I know times are changing and kids grow.

Btw this paint was Farrow and Ball (Light Blue) but it showed up the bad plastering of the walls and it had a very patchy finish which after removing all the blue tack, looked dreadful. It was also a lot darker than it appears here. For more practical reasons I painted it white. 

I'm going to sell the bunk beds. So sad! : (

The End.

This place is in Ventnor, so not far from where we live. I have been coming here since I was tiny...

I hope we will have plenty more relaxing holidays to come this summer, and soon we will be celebrating one year since we got the keys to our flat! A very happy day indeed.

It really meant a lot to see them so happy decorating their little tree in their room considering we were homeless this time last year.

Our flat smells like marmalade.

We made lots of things using fresh greenery but has since shrivelled up, so you'll have to take my word for it that it did look nice.

I bought enough fairy lights to wrap around the earth.

I am so happy that I got all that decorating done in good time for xmas! Very satisfying.

Even the bathroom got xmassed.

I'm sure there will be some more xmas posts to come because we are really making it last this year. Hopefully it will be a peaceful and healthy xmas for everyone.