As you can see, before was not a pretty sight! This space was definitely about utilizing as much space as possible, on a hideous old £5 wooden trolley I had all the intentions of doing up when I first bought it. It took up a small space in my bedroom and obviously had everything on display, which meant it could end up pretty messy sometimes! It was functional, but just not at all what I wanted.
After spending almost four hours walking around all the second hand furniture shops I knew existed in Bolton and finding nothing, I'd almost given up hope! That is, until I went to Preston on Wednesday with my Mum and saw this in the window of a second hand store. My perfect, dream dressing table! I knew I had wanted an old, 1940s era art deco looking dressing table, but most of those are a dark coloured, heavy wood which wouldn't go with anything in my room, so I was incredibly lucky to find this one already upcycled into something more suitable. And even better, it had been newly reduced so was within my budget! It still cost me £45 which was a hefty lot of the money available, so I scoured around my usual charity shops and car boots looking for bits to add on it. Here's where I spent my money:
1940s dressing table: £45.
Silk flowers in a jar: £2 (TK Maxx).
1950s Blue Hyacinth talc: £1.50 (car boot).
1950s Bourjois powder pot: £1 (car boot).
Luckily I already had quite a few things I know would look lovely on the new dressing table, so I didn't have to spend too much on decorations. I am so, so in love with it, it looks so much cleaner, tidier and overall prettier in my bedroom and I know it'll be a piece of furniture I keep forever. I actually had to rearrange my entire room to get it to fit in, so the whole room looks so new and improved! Thanks so much to Money Supermarket for asking me get involved!
*I was provided with the £50 budget by Money Supermarket.
