Decorating a Child's Room
So, your goal should be to decorate a child’s room in a way that is perfect for them. Make it personal, here's how:
• Get Inspired! A great idea would be to bounce around several ideas before you actually start decorating. Determine what they would love now, and if it is something they will love 6 months down the road as well. Start by looking in your child's favorite books, magazines, etc. This will give you an idea of things they like. Then look in decorating books, and get ideas online of things you can do and personalize just for your child. You'll get great inspiration for a theme, and this will make the decorating process faster, less expensive, and more personal.
• Involve your children! Ask your child what they would do, what they would want, and incorporate some of their ideas. This will give them a sense of pride in their room. Ask their favorite colors, artistic interests, story or movie characters, and other preferences.
• The three R’s. Once you have chosen a theme for the room you want to reinforce, repeat, and reiterate the idea. So, shop for fabric, wallpaper or border paper that will reinforce your chosen theme. Select a main print that will set the tone for the whole room, and use repetitive elements throughout the room to show that the decorating is not haphazard.
• Choose a background color to use on the painted walls, floors, and ceiling. Then select coordinating fabrics, accessories, and prints that mix well with the main colors.
• When decorating a child’s room it is important to choose a focal point for the room. What you choose does not matter at all. While many choose the bed as the main point of interest, you could focus on a display shelf, a painted wall mural, or decorated play area. The focal point should really reinforce your chosen theme, and can be anything you want it to be.
• Get creative. Use things that are not going to be found in every child’s room in the country. Your child’s room should be unique to them, and not be made up of things they will find in their friends rooms, per say. For example, if your child loves tennis, string a net behind the bed for a headboard; place tennis balls onto the tips of clothes hooks, or as the ends of your curtain rod. Have fun with the theme, and do not buy everything ready made.
• Personalize! Nothing makes a kid feel more at home then a room decorated with their things. What do I mean? Well, for example, you can decorate a child’s room with their artwork displayed tastefully in nice frames. Or you can set projects, crafts, etc. on well-placed shelves or make an artistic display on the wall. Basically, utilize things that your children love and have created themselves to decorate the room. This can be done tastefully, and artistically.
• Details! For any type of decorating, whether it is decorating a child’s room, or decorating a dining room, details matter. Use embellishments on handles, knobs, etc. Add details, through coordinated color, fabric, and print. Decorating a child’s room is fun, and you are sure to enjoy it as you and your child create a fun and functional living space that can be enjoyed and shown off with pride for years to come. Unless you want to redecorate every few years, try to use prints and styles that will not be quickly outdated, and make sure you get your child’s input so that they will still love it a year down the road.
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• Get Inspired! A great idea would be to bounce around several ideas before you actually start decorating. Determine what they would love now, and if it is something they will love 6 months down the road as well. Start by looking in your child's favorite books, magazines, etc. This will give you an idea of things they like. Then look in decorating books, and get ideas online of things you can do and personalize just for your child. You'll get great inspiration for a theme, and this will make the decorating process faster, less expensive, and more personal.
• Involve your children! Ask your child what they would do, what they would want, and incorporate some of their ideas. This will give them a sense of pride in their room. Ask their favorite colors, artistic interests, story or movie characters, and other preferences.
• The three R’s. Once you have chosen a theme for the room you want to reinforce, repeat, and reiterate the idea. So, shop for fabric, wallpaper or border paper that will reinforce your chosen theme. Select a main print that will set the tone for the whole room, and use repetitive elements throughout the room to show that the decorating is not haphazard.
• Choose a background color to use on the painted walls, floors, and ceiling. Then select coordinating fabrics, accessories, and prints that mix well with the main colors.
• When decorating a child’s room it is important to choose a focal point for the room. What you choose does not matter at all. While many choose the bed as the main point of interest, you could focus on a display shelf, a painted wall mural, or decorated play area. The focal point should really reinforce your chosen theme, and can be anything you want it to be.
• Get creative. Use things that are not going to be found in every child’s room in the country. Your child’s room should be unique to them, and not be made up of things they will find in their friends rooms, per say. For example, if your child loves tennis, string a net behind the bed for a headboard; place tennis balls onto the tips of clothes hooks, or as the ends of your curtain rod. Have fun with the theme, and do not buy everything ready made.
• Personalize! Nothing makes a kid feel more at home then a room decorated with their things. What do I mean? Well, for example, you can decorate a child’s room with their artwork displayed tastefully in nice frames. Or you can set projects, crafts, etc. on well-placed shelves or make an artistic display on the wall. Basically, utilize things that your children love and have created themselves to decorate the room. This can be done tastefully, and artistically.
• Details! For any type of decorating, whether it is decorating a child’s room, or decorating a dining room, details matter. Use embellishments on handles, knobs, etc. Add details, through coordinated color, fabric, and print. Decorating a child’s room is fun, and you are sure to enjoy it as you and your child create a fun and functional living space that can be enjoyed and shown off with pride for years to come. Unless you want to redecorate every few years, try to use prints and styles that will not be quickly outdated, and make sure you get your child’s input so that they will still love it a year down the road.
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