How I Furnished My Student Flat In Shoreditch With Retro Style

Life in a student flat starts rough but gets colourful. The carpet smelled like beer, but we made it ours. No student can afford Mayfair prices, so we hunted retro. We carried a wingback through Dalston. The colours clashed, but that’s why it worked. Old accent chairs carry memory, and we don’t need polish, we need real. I’ve fallen asleep in a battered contemporary leather armchair with a book, and those seats carried us.

Markets spill chairs onto the streets, and Smithers down in Shoreditch knows it. We wandered past Smithers one Saturday, and the place was full of funky retro chairs. we were broke students, but it’s the pride of the living room. We’ve all shoved sofas through windows. It’s part of student life. Furniture with scars feels built for students. Brand-new looks boring, but real pieces stay alive. every dent becomes part of the flat. By the end of the year, the cracked window gets forgotten, but you remember the sofa.

When you think furniture, forget the catalogue shine. Pick up a vintage armchair, and make it part of your story.