[NOTES: All photos are mine unless stated]
This is Serena’s bedroom, nice tones or yellows and light
wood, then with this ‘burst’ of dark coloured butterflies above her headboard.
I love her room, it looks really girly and even with the butterflies looks
grown up.
Her butterflies are by Paul Villinski, who gathers his
butterflies in certain shapes, or they ‘fly off’ into particular tangents. They
are 3D ‘paintings’, some of what he has done have involved the process of recycling
beer cans from New York and crushed them to form the butterflies. In Serena’s
bedroom i think the dark tone causes them to stand out, and they are bold
against the background colour. Although they are dark the rest of the room
still allows it to be a warm space, i have seen the same butterflies in a white
room and they don’t have the same warm feeling like her room does.
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| The butterflies in this room are more 'colder' [source: Paul Villinski] |
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| In a living room setting, 'flying up the wall'. [source: Paul Villinski] |
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| My bedroom in my flat. |
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| My butterflies. |
I have always loved butterflies, one of my favourite places
is a butterfly house where i can spot all the different types of butterflies
whilst adoring them and their patterned wings, all different sizes. My mum
bought me my Kath Kidston style printed ones from Next one Christmas and i have
just put them on my bedroom wall with my other abstract wall butterflies, and
some of which i have handmade. The difference between mine and Serena’s (other
than the money they cost) is obviously the colour/patterns, although mine are colourful,
they sit on a plain wall. I can’t decorate my rented house so i have to make
do. I have attempted to put them up in ‘flying off’ positions. I would like a proper
Paul Villinski one for my bedroom and another for my living room once i have my
own house one time, to create more of the look Serena has going on.
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| (Kath Kidston style patterns) £12 - Next |
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| (Mirrored) £2.99 - Home Bargains |
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| (Patterned) Homemade - Using Paperchase gift wrap |
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| (Glittery) Free - From a wedding recently |
Butterflies seem impossible. How can these ridiculously delicate
creatures, apparently blown about by the merest breath of wind, actually
fly many thousands of miles to migrate? How is it that an innate,
intergenerational GPS guides them year after year to the same tree? Are
we more like them than we suspect, or could we be? -Paul Villinski
