Lottie’s Velveteen Rabbit theme is showhome bedroom winner

The Velveteen Rabbit is the 9-year-old’s favourite book

An Orchard Fields primary school pupil has won a competition to have her book-themed design for a bedroom brought to life in a local showhome.

9-year-old Lottie Betts’ favourite book is The Velveteen Rabbit so she used the story as the basis for her vision, which designers brought to life in the bedroom of the showhome at Banbury Rise.

Lottie joined Banbury Town Mayor, Councillor Mark Cherry, to see the decorated bedroom and collected a first prize £50 Waterstones voucher.

The competition was run for Bloor Homes by the interior designer Carrie Edwards.   She visited Orchard Fields Community School in October to provide the students with a brief with the aim of turning the winning design into a real bedroom in time for World Book Day.

Lottie said: “It was a lot of fun designing the bedroom and has been my favourite school project, I was very pleased to win the competition. The Velveteen Rabbit is one of my favourite books and I thought it would look nice as a bedroom. I really liked walking around the new bedroom that I designed!”

Carrie Edwards said: “Our school competition challenge was for the pupils to design their perfect bedroom based on their favourite Book. The children came up with some fantastic ideas, but Lottie’s beautiful design of the ‘Velveteen Rabbit room’ really stood out as the winner.

“Our team’s interpretation of it was to install a pale blue carpet and hand painted woodland mural around the walls. The fun bunkbed maximises the sleeping space whilst the wardrobe and table / chairs give options for storage and play. Artwork around the room is taken from the book itself.”

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Published: 06/03/2025 11:36am by Banbury FM Newsteam

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