The 5 things I’d tell my child to buy for their university room to make it feel like home

Neutral home office with wooden desk, patterned upholstered armchair and pinboard on wall above desk showing fabric samples.

Interior designer and content creator Rebecca Constable is one of Ideal Home's new Open House contributors, sharing her thoughts on demystifying the process of designing and decorating a home, and helping people work out where to spend and where to save.

Despite having left formal education over 20 years ago, I still get that excited back to school feeling as September approaches. And although it seems picking out stationary in WH Smith no longer carries the allure it once did, for those preparing for university there is an even more exciting piece of admin to be done.