Gossip Girl bedroom - Mine and Serena's

[NOTES: All photos are mine unless stated]

Serena's bedroom at the Waldorf's. [source: christinatonkininteriors]

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. 

The butterflies in this room are more 'colder' [source: Paul Villinski]

Scattered and on a non-white background. [source: Paul Villinski]

A blue version, in a circular shape. [source: Paul Villinski]

In a living room setting, 'flying up the wall'. [source: Paul Villinski]

My bedroom in my flat.

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. 

(Kath Kidston style patterns) £12 - Next

(Mirrored) £2.99 - Home Bargains

  

(Patterned) Homemade - Using Paperchase gift wrap

(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