It’s Wednesday which means it’s hump day and what better than to celebrate with a beautiful home tour courtesy of Sandra from Divine Day Photography. She’s here this morning sharing the eclectic and brilliantly fun bedroom of her four year old twins – Hosten and Georgia – and I just know that you’re going to love it.

There are so many gorgeous details that I’m not sure where to begin. Like Sandra I’m a bit of an eBay bargain hunter but if I’d managed to score the beautiful bedsteads she snagged for Hosten and Georgia, I’d be feeling very smug indeed. They are beautiful. Equally as impressive is how Sandra has managed to incorporate so many different themes, colours and ideas which somehow shouldn’t work together but completely and utterly do.

It’s clear that this beautiful space, however wonderfully designed, is a kids room too. You can feel that the personality of the children who sleep and play within it shines through, be that through the photos, or the toys, or their favourite books. I’ll stop my dithering now and pass you over to Sandra to tell you a little bit more. Don’t forget to check out the gallery at the end too.

The idea for my little 4-year-old twins’ – Hosten & Georgia – bedroom was to create an environment that was fun, alive and still paid homage to the 1850’s roots of the house. In fact, on a slightly creepy note, the names of the original children living in the house, Louisa and Alfred are inscribed into the glass window! It’s always been a kid’s room!

The beds were like so many favourites in my house, a treasure sourced from good old eBay! Georgia’s came very much weathered and I kept it that way. Hosten’s had less charm so I sprayed it gold and called it a day. I dressed the beds with quilts I made by sourcing fabric from Liberty. The cushions are lovely things from both Ikea and Zara Home.

Pictures are always helpful to add a theme or character to a room and since I was essentially doing this on a shoestring, I resorted to using wrapping paper plucked from the shelves at Liberty and posters I found from a trip to Paris.

My “crazy mother in design mode” moment meant adding a tent I grabbed at Fara in Notting Hill and then adding some papier-mâché masks of birds and a lion from the Conran Shop in Marylebone and a couple of Giraffes again in paper maché from Anthropologie on Regent Street. They have other savannah numbers too, which were very temping.

Their dresser is a Victorian chest in rosewood, which I picked up for a song from one of my favourite antiques haunts. The vendor there begged me not to paint it, so I listened and now I’m happy I did.

I also needed places to hide the plethora of knick-knacks and random Lego, Playmobile, Barbie bits etc. Zara Home came to the rescue again on this one for nice baskets with lids to make it all disappear! I also have a rule that what lives in the room stays in the room! With three kids this rule has saved me days of ferrying toys up and down, to and fro.

Ikea has its place in most homes and here I found their bookcase, shelves, frames and a touch lamp, handy for the kids to switch on at night to keep the boogieman away. The rag rug is from Zara Home again…I think I need a loyalty card for this store!

Images by Divine Day Photography