My living room is now
FULL OF CHARACTER Using a pretty pastel colour scheme and adding fun touches and clever styling tricks, Beam Irwin has created a living area perfect for socialising and relaxing
About me
I’m Beam, 34, a freelance props and interior stylist and maker of floral home decorations, which I sell on Instagram @bloomsbybeam. I live with my husband, Christian, 39, an IT specialist. Our home is a 1950s three-bedroom semi-detached house in Middleton, Manchester. I post home updates @aplacetogether.
My room...
MY PROBLEM LIVING ROOM Our living space had a good-sized open-plan layout, but it didn’t have much warmth or personality. I wanted to add lots of fun, happy colours to make the room more cheerful. HOW I MADE IT WORK We painted the walls and shopped around for furniture that would make the layout work better. I decorated the room with bargain finds from second-hand selling sites and I filled the walls with my own artwork. It took two years for me to feel that this room was finally complete. MY FAVOURITE PART My fireplace. It’s very photogenic and I like that I can play around with it by changing the mantel decorations or the artwork above. I love how flexible it can be. 104 yourhomestyle.uk
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‘Having a place that looks and feels restful was so valuable to us, especially during lockdown’
