Caroline Burke | Burkatron

just before christmas I decided to finally tackle my spare room. when we moved in it morphed into a dumping zone where we left old furniture, mirrors, boxes of paintings and bags of clothes.. I tried really damn hard to ignore it but eventually I caved.

I started going through all the junk and arranging collections of the furniture we no longer needed. I separated the clothes and homewares into three categories (keep, donate and eBay) and it made a huge difference! once the room was cleared out we replaced the two old windows, painted it again to freshen it up and put down a new white floor which really brightened up the space.

the room is long and narrow so I had planned to buy a daybed and make it into a guest room but it occurred to me that it would probably make a much better office. it's one of the brightest rooms in the house and my desk fit perfectly into the dead space behind the doorway.. so I hijacked it!

I had quite a large collection of clothes but I've managed to cut it down to two clothes rails (the rest fits into my big vintage dresser.. just about.) I decided to use the other two thirds of the room as dressing/storage space so all my clothes are officially confined to one room. yep, james is pretty happy about that part.