The bedroom is the place where we spend a large portion of our lives when one is at home, especially when we are kids. Therefore, the right bedroom décor can help in creating a comfortable environment for members of your family. When it comes to children, one has to take utmost care to design and use the right materials.
It should be safe enough for a baby and exciting enough to please any teenager. Another Thing to consider is making the room easily changable so that a growing child doesn't have to deal with their baby toys when they start getting older.
Article by Kashmira Lad
Baby Bedroom Decor:
You can choose from a variety of topics that need to be visually soothing and pleasing to the eye for your little bundle of joy. Cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny and Winnie the Pooh are some of the most popular ones that can adorn the walls or even the bedding. Another option would be to go in for fantasy themes. Pretty pink fairies or Aladin will add to the charm of the room.
Or you can go for an aquatic theme to bring in some cool blues and refreshing greens. Use cute ocean animals, sea theme murals, theme bedding and unique bed canopies to turn your room into an aquarium. Coordinate with matching wall hangings, toys and wallpapers.
Varied shapes of flowers and floral patterns can also be used when it comes to kids’ bedroom décor. Your kids’ bedroom can be transformed into myriad hues of realistic, graphical or cartoon style floral designs. If all this is way too fussy for you, then you can plan it in such a way which will only require a few modifications once your child starts growing up.
Tween Bedroom Décor:
I would recommend you really first consider the nature of your child before embarking upon any new ventures for your kids’ bedroom decor. Your tween would probably have the best solution for this. The decor has to be fun giving a flow to his creativity. For a kid who loves sports, you can use sports equipment in his bedroom in a creative way. Hang a hoop if he loves basketball or use a hockey stick as curtain rod.
If he/she is completely into music, you can plaster some cool posters on the walls or even reserve a special portion of the wall to display the guitar. If your child simply loves the sand and the surf, you can translate this into a theme and use it as an innovative bedroom décor idea.
Get a mural or better still, get stencils that your kid can use and display his/her own talent on a particular portion of the wall. It can have the palm trees, sandy beaches and the cool, blue seas.
The dainty daughter may prefer a special area to display her stuffed animals and dolls. An easy access to these items would also help the room to remain neat and tidy at all times. Pretty lacey curtains and a display area for her favorite dress or bonnet can do the trick.
The bottom line is to converse with your tween and find the best possible option.
Teenage Bedroom Décor:
This is definitely one of the phases when your child will consider himself to be an adult without actually being one. The bedroom decor themes for your teenager should border on being fun with a touch of maturity as well. No teen would like to be treated like a child, so do plan it out before you do anything. He/she will definitely appreciate the faith you have bestowed in him/her.
Time to push away the showy display of the toys. Bring out the denims, since denims form the next skin for most teens. Different paint techniques are available for denim looking walls or simply use denim trimmings on the pillow covers. Rip up an old pair of denim jean and use that for the cords or covert a chair with it.
Most teens by this stage are heavily influenced by Hollywood, you can get Hollywood straight into the bedroom with movie posters , props and movie memorabilia. Add lots of shimmer, sequins, glitz and glamour to make this room fit for a Hollywood star. Though a little lavish to some, you can even have cinema style seating and decorate the furniture with some jewels.
Bring the deserts and the oasis in the bedroom with an Egyptian theme. Think Cleopatra, unique artifacts, wall paintings and exotic fabrics with animal prints. The lighting and the color used for the rooms would aide to create a tropical atmosphere and your teen can feel like a true Egyptian King or Queen.
Kids’ bedroom décor has gone beyond just the plain and the obvious. Keep the budget in mind before you plan your theme and the safety should be the prime concern when it comes to dealing with tiny tots. Be creative and watch the smile unfold on his/her lips. This page was viewed on Buzzle.com on 9/28/2009 8:30:32 AM. More info: URL accessed: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/kids-bedroom-decor-bedroom-decorating-ideas.html HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 REMOTE_ADDR: 196.209.23.88 REMOTE_HOST: 196.209.23.88 Copyright 2000 Buzzle.com All rights reserved google_ad_section_end author start
By Kashmira Lad
