7 ways to revamp your bedroom

1.    Lets start with the furniture. I love to move everything around in my room, I always change my desk and bed around for a different outlook and I’ve done this so many times. Your room often needs a refresher, especially if you spend a lot of time in your room. With a little shifting around, voila, I magically become an interior designer. If you think your bed would look better in the other corner or you think your desk should stick out from the wall, then try it! You can always change it back. If you don't fancy lugging heavy desks around at first, you can always grab a piece of paper, draw the shape of your room and try out the furniture in different places before you move them.

2.     Decorate your walls. I found this cute red Oxford canvas in a charity shop, I've used maps, postcards as well as birthday cards to make my plain white walls more interesting and personal. I also added some Cath Kidston style bunting that I got for my birthday-you could also buy some funky material, download a pattern from a website and make your own. Another common decoration is fairy lights. These are very pretty, give a cosy atmosphere and aren’t very expensive-I bought these for 6.99 from amazon.

3.     Next, the bed. It's a pretty vital part of your room, it is a BEDroom afterall. I love buying new bedding, and it gives you the opportunity to change or enhance the colour scheme in your room. You can also get throws and cushions to brighten it up and make it more comfy and homely.

4.     Spread out jewellery over your room, hang it from the walls or display it to add colour and interest to your room. It’s a really good way of showing your own style and individuality, it's also easy to reach.

5.     Put up more shelves to create more room to store or display things - the life of a bookaholic is cursed with putting up shelves and creating ever-growing piles on the floor...these actually make brilliant bedside tables! 

6.     Add a plant or two. These make the room look more exotic. Even if you aren’t good at keeping things alive-get cacti or a little palm tree, as they only need watering occasionally, or you can get artificial plants.

7.    Create a collage of family photographs. These are ones from my childhood of my family and friends, and it's always nice to remind yourself of memories from that time. It also adds a lot of colour and provides a focal point for the room.

'Omg, you were home-educated???'

Why?

Some people choose home-ed because of religious reasons, however my parents felt like primary school was simply there for childcare and they wanted us to grow more freely, apart from the rules and levels that you have to climb in school.

Isn’t it against the law??

In the UK it is perfectly fine to educate your child at home, as long as the education they receive is suitable to their ability and aptitude.

But don’t you have to be a teacher?

Nope, you don’t have to have any formal education whatsoever to instruct your child at home.

Do you have any friends?!

Contrary to popular belief, I have a social life! Growing up, I had friends at my local home-ed group as well as from my dance classes and friends living in my village. Unlike the image that some people have, just because I’m home-ed it doesn’t mean I wear long, flowery skirts and sit at home crocheting all day…

But you’ll miss out on school’s valuable life lessons!

Valuable life lessons? I feel like I’ve learnt many more things to prepare me for the adult world from my family and friends at home than I would have at school. I know how to have a conversation, prepare for a job interview and bake a loaf of bread… what more could I ask for?

Can you wear your pjs all day??

Strangely, this is one of the questions I get asked the most, and the answer is, you can if you like, but you have to remember that we actually want to get up and learn because it’s fun. I can imagine if you were in school then came straight out you’d want to work in your pyjamas bcause it would be a novelty, but in reality, we prefer to get dressed and ready for the day.

What’s a typical day like??

That’s exactly it-there isn’t a typical day for a home-edder. We had things like an art class to go to or a group meet up to attend, but the point is that nothing is ‘compulsory’ like it is in school. We never really had a specific time to start or end our working time, just as much or as little as we felt like doing that day. One day I wanted to do a huge essay on Jane Austen’s history, so that’s what I did for about a week. I remember this one time when my 3 siblings and I took a week to prepare a whole Egyptian burial, my sister made an elaborate gold mask for the mummy, we all made clay models to be the servants in the next life as well as the  canopic jars. My brothers painted an old cardboard box to bury me in after I was wrapped in toilet paper as the mummy!