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How to decorate your first apartment bedroom

When it comes to your first own bedroom or apartment, the focus is usually more on your lifestyle than a decorating style.

Three young people with lots of moving boxes, bags and furniture, obviously moving into a new room. Big windows in the back.
Three young people with lots of moving boxes, bags and furniture, obviously moving into a new room. Big windows in the back.

Ready to settle in? Check!

Regardless of budget and circumstances there’s a few things you will need to fix:

  • A bed or day-bed
  • Some sort of storage solution
  • Lighting, preferably a few different light sources
  • A desk
  • Extra stools for friends
  • Perhaps a few decorations
  • Pizza!

VIHALS bedside table seen from above with a cutting board on top, filled with slices of pizza. A hand grabbing a slice.

Friends + Extra chairs = True

You can’t have too many friends, especially when you’re moving and need some helping hands. Consequently, you can’t have too many extra chairs either, so make sure to become familiar with these two words: Stackable and foldable. 

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Three young people eating pizza, sitting around VIHALS bedside table in a room with stools, moving boxes, bags etc.
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Lightweight, lightworked, lightpriced and heavily handy!

Yes, you need storage, here and now. VUKU takes care of all the hanging stuff, it clicks together like a tent, no tools required. 

A corner of a room with white and purple walls, ÄLGANÄS clothes rack and VUKU wardrobe. Red BUNKEFLO pendant lamp.
Close-up of VUKU wardrobe in white polyester with the zipper half way down and some clothes visible inside.

Multifunction is the answer

The VIHALS day-bed with storage boxes underneath will be at your service 24-7, regardless of whether you want to hang out, organise things or sleep.

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VIHALS day-bed with black/white bedding and an orange bedspread, storage boxes pulled out underneath. Bedside table in back.
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Storage for things you don’t want to store away

Sometimes it is the odd little collectibles and personal favourites that set the mood in a room. They need somewhere to be, but don’t want to be stored away.

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Close-up of IVAR shelving unit in pine, hung on the wall next to a desk. The boxes are filled with magazines and cameras.
The back of a red SMÖRKULL office chair in front of a desk surrounded by IVAR shelving units in pine.
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Let’s get serious

Even if life is a party, there will be moments when you need a desk to study, work, pay bills or just sort things out.

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A bright red office chair by a MITTPLAN desk, with several IVAR shelving units in pine above and by the side of the desk.
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Hanging pictures without making holes in the wall is truly fine art.

Why make holes in the wall if you don’t have to? ALFTA self-adhesive hooks are super easy to both attach and remove.

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A corner of a room with a lot of red picture frames being hung up with the help of ALFTA adhesive hooks.
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Moving made so easy you won’t mind doing it again

Moving, getting everything in order and making yourself at home is easy, with the help of some good friends.

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Moving-in-mess with DUNDERGUBBE moving boxes, blue carrier bags, stackable stools, a clothes rack with lots of shirts.
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Looking for more tips to help you improve your bedroom?

A bed with black/white/striped SLÅNHÖSTMAL bed linen in front of HYLLIS shelving units with green plants on top.
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