We know you can’t get enough of the Rock My Style Home Tours and so we’re sure you’re going to love today’s mini house with mega style. Helen’s one-bed is pocket-sized but clearly demonstrates how you can live stylishly in small space. Making the most of the square footage Helen and her boyfriend have chosen a simple colour scheme and stamped their personality all over their teeny home. Over to the Lady of the House…

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I bought my one-bed cluster home back in 2010 originally as a solo-dwelling. Since then the house has had to miraculously stretch to accommodate my boyfriend, two fishtanks and a rescue African Pygmy hedgehog, with various rescue wild hedgehogs in the garden.

It is an unusual design with a mezzanine bedroom over-looking the lounge. It is open-plan and what it lacks in floor space it makes up for with a high ceiling so it doesn’t tend to feel cramped. It is fairly bright in here, there is a huge velux skylight which lets in a lot of light – I like this in the morning because it helps wake us up! You can see the stars and the tree too. I love the tension wire lighting from Ikea although it wasn’t easy to get up there. We had to put up a scaffold tower to install them when I moved in so it won’t be easy when a bulb goes.

I chose the dark grey (Night Jewels 3 from Dulux) in the bedroom as I wanted a colour that tied in with the rest of the house. It is a really nice colour and is matt which works really well as there is quite a lot of light coming in, so doesn’t show up any imperfections in the wall.

I chose to decorate my open-plan home white to give an illusion of space adding accents of black and grey scheme throughout, it is open plan so I wanted to have a theme running all through the house. I softened up the monochrome with different textures, metal, leather, cozy blankets, ornate frames – It could easily look cold and bare otherwise. My favourite feature has to be the gallery wall. I used some ornate frames for the display which I painted with a matt black acrylic graffiti paint – it was a great way to add some decorative impact to the room without taking up any valuable space. I also incorporated keys, letters, skulls which were either already black or I painted to match the frames. The pictures in the frames are sentimental photos or pages from books such as Alice in Wonderland.

Lots of my little knick knacks are gifts or sentimental items that find their way to me. I volunteer at Animals in Need at the weekends caring for wildlife, so I try to incorporate my love of nature into my home. I also collect lots of odd little items, like the Lego figures. I made those as a present for my boyfriend collecting all the bits in the Lego shop.

Storage is tight with two people here now, but we use boxes from Ikea and try to fill every cupboard. We both have lots of books and the shelves here only really have my books on – we will need a library wall in our next house! The shelves in the kitchen were less a style choice and more of a kitchen necessity, but we thought they went well with the wallpaper.
I added a colourful replica Hang it All rack in the porch because my nan had one when I was little and I spent my childhood thinking the colourful balls on it were great.

My bathroom wallpaper is called “Bleeding Heart” from Lars Contzen. It has a strange pattern with weeping hearts and bitten apples – I couldn’t buy anything normal!

I have wild hedgehogs in my garden that I rehabiliate and release or provide long term care for. Indoors I have Samson the African Pygmy hedgehog who is around four years old. He was rescued and handed in when his owners didn’t want him anymore. He was overweight and grumpy, but after putting him on a diet and giving him lots of attention he has settled in very well.

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{The Particulars}
  • Who: Helen, the other half and the hedgehogs (it’s a tight squeeze)
  • What: 1980′s 1 Bed Cluster Home
  • Where: Northampton
  • Style: Monochrome, Scandinavian, Modern with Woodland and Ornate Accents
{Key Features}

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I think my favourite element of this pad has to be the awesome gallery wall, very closely followed by the hare heads. I want them all over my house. Helen has very kindly listed lots of her sources in our fancy grey box but if there’s anything that you want to know about in more detail then please drop her a comment.