How should I decorate my boys room?
Q. I have a 8, 3 and 3 month old in the same bedroom. I want to move but the 3 bedroom apt are full and we can't afford a house right now.
Answer
A decorating theme is a great way to begin decorating a room for a child. If you're like most parents, you've probably spent lots of time thinking about decorating your new child's room even before he joined your family. While bunnies are cute and teddy bears are darling, you might want something different for the bedroom or playroom.
There are lots of great themes for boys' rooms. A special theme will provide both the focus and the inspiration for a special one-of-a-kind room and can be adapted as your child grows. Time to get started!
Bug's Life
From bees and ants to frogs and reptiles, creatures of nature often capture a child's attention. Browse theme ideas at Posh Tots including a Bug Off Table and Chair Set, Bug bed linens, and or frog lamp.
Favorite Animals
What boy wouldn't love a room focusing on his favorite pet? Whether it's a dog or cat, bird or snake, using this theme will make your son (and his pet) feel particularly at home. Be sure to put up lots of pictures with your son and his best friend around the room and make sure you have stuffed animals scattered everywhere.
Playhouse / Playtown
This theme will provide a wonderful scheme for decorating your son's room and provide lots of wonderful playtime possibilities as well. A whimsical or the cute playtown chest can be your starting point. Or, do a border in kids designs or paint a mural of a street scene on one or more walls. Name the storefronts for family members ("Katie's Groceries", "Ted's Puppet Theatre", "Todd's Bike Shop", "Anne's Pet Heaven", "Sara's Video Den", or Dennis' Book Nook").
Safari
For a safari look, find wonderful, colorful animal wallpaper borders and fabrics at any wallpaper store. Paint the walls blue, tan, ivory, or any of the colors in your wallpaper border. Make pillows and valances from coordinating leopard-print fabrics, and find some stuffed lions and tigers for the corner. Mount a butterfly net, binoculars, or straw hat on the walls. Use colorful matboard and frame some of your child's artwork to display. Maybe he'll draw some lions!
Rustic Cabin
Most every child loves spending time at camp or in the mountains. And what parent doesn't have happy childhood memories of hiking, boating, fishing, or just enjoying the outdoors. Birdhouses, bears, moose, and fish might show up in wallpaper borders, in fabrics, bedding, and accessories. For a rustic room you might also choose comfy plaid patterns, flannel fabrics, and log or pine beds. Accessories might use forest themes of animals, mountain scenes, or natural materials such as pine cones, leaves, and sticks. Take another cue from camp and use a sturdy trunk to store toys. With a room this nice, who needs a vacation?
Rain Forest
Choose a colorful jungle border, or try a jungle area rug. Soft fabric snakes and colorful stuffed birds or butterfly cutouts can add to the decor. Make pillows of animal or jungle prints and use themed accessories. Grrr!
Race Cars
With car racing, you think black and white checkered flags, and a finish line. Find an area rug with a car track design. A car bed might be fun, or decorate the walls with a car wall appliques. Add some framed calendar photos or posters of race cars, and put up narrow shelving to display car collections. Zoom!
Outer Space
Take a trip to the stars using a space theme. An Apollo bed set, outerspace border, or star-studded rocking chair might be just the items that inspires your child to reach for the stars. Paint reflective planets or stars on the ceiling in arrangements of the constellations.
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines
If Dad is in the service, you might let your boy feel patriotic with a room painted in camouflage and outfitted with tanks and desert colors.
Sports
From soccer to baseball to football, sports is a theme that spans the generations. To use a baseball theme for example, use a headboard made from bats, hang curtains from bats used as curtain rods, make a baseball lamp, or hang shelving to display gloves, pennants, and trophies. Paint the room in the colors of your son's favorite team. Sports themed rugs, furniture, and beds are another possibility. Create similar looks for other sports, and you'll have a room that is a big "hit" with sports fans. Play ball!
Wild Colors
Go wild by starting with a lively area rug designed in fun colors for a child. Take your cue from the rug for colors and designs for the rest of the room. Use color everywhere! Paint every surface of a bookcase a different color, and do the same with headboard slats, drawer fronts, and chair legs. This is a great way to help your little one learn his colors! Find a fabric to compliment the rug and use it to tie the room together with window valances or floor pillows.
Movie or Cartoon Characters
There's something for everyone in this theme! Whether your son has been captivated by Mickey Mouse, Alladin, Lion King, Toy Story, or Scooby Doo -- you'll probably be able to find bedding, lamps, and other decorative items that use these themes. Towels for the bathroom and toys will be easy to add.
Pirates
The story of Peter Pan can inspire creative parents to design a wonderful room. Boys intrigued by the notion of pirates will love a room using blue ocean themes, ship masts, portholes, netting, treasure boxes, and secret play hideaways.
Knights and Castles
Artistic parents can faux paint castle walls, murals, and blue skies for a truly memorable room. Use the theme of "A Sword in the Stone" or "Camelot" for inspiration. Find another take on this theme offered by for Mercy's Sake in their Galahad collection.
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
There are lots of colorful choices in bedding, fabrics, and wallpaper that feature transportation themes. Make a train track border around the room, hang airplanes from the ceiling, or go wild with a car-shaped bed.
Cowboy Kids
This is a fun theme where you can let your imagination run wild. Think bandana valances, chaps wall hangings, tin stars, horses, rope borders, and more. The baby dude designs offered by for Mercy's Sake offer some fun possibilities. Or check out OliveKids.com Camp Wilderness or the Wild West theme designs from PoshTots.com for more creative examples of this theme and products to add to your decor.
Dinosaurs
From cute and stylized to realistic and ferocious -- dinosaurs themes are still popular. If you suspect this is a passing phase for your little one, then opt for solid color bedding and walls, using theme elements in borders, sheets, valances, and posters.
A decorating theme is a great way to begin decorating a room for a child. If you're like most parents, you've probably spent lots of time thinking about decorating your new child's room even before he joined your family. While bunnies are cute and teddy bears are darling, you might want something different for the bedroom or playroom.
There are lots of great themes for boys' rooms. A special theme will provide both the focus and the inspiration for a special one-of-a-kind room and can be adapted as your child grows. Time to get started!
Bug's Life
From bees and ants to frogs and reptiles, creatures of nature often capture a child's attention. Browse theme ideas at Posh Tots including a Bug Off Table and Chair Set, Bug bed linens, and or frog lamp.
Favorite Animals
What boy wouldn't love a room focusing on his favorite pet? Whether it's a dog or cat, bird or snake, using this theme will make your son (and his pet) feel particularly at home. Be sure to put up lots of pictures with your son and his best friend around the room and make sure you have stuffed animals scattered everywhere.
Playhouse / Playtown
This theme will provide a wonderful scheme for decorating your son's room and provide lots of wonderful playtime possibilities as well. A whimsical or the cute playtown chest can be your starting point. Or, do a border in kids designs or paint a mural of a street scene on one or more walls. Name the storefronts for family members ("Katie's Groceries", "Ted's Puppet Theatre", "Todd's Bike Shop", "Anne's Pet Heaven", "Sara's Video Den", or Dennis' Book Nook").
Safari
For a safari look, find wonderful, colorful animal wallpaper borders and fabrics at any wallpaper store. Paint the walls blue, tan, ivory, or any of the colors in your wallpaper border. Make pillows and valances from coordinating leopard-print fabrics, and find some stuffed lions and tigers for the corner. Mount a butterfly net, binoculars, or straw hat on the walls. Use colorful matboard and frame some of your child's artwork to display. Maybe he'll draw some lions!
Rustic Cabin
Most every child loves spending time at camp or in the mountains. And what parent doesn't have happy childhood memories of hiking, boating, fishing, or just enjoying the outdoors. Birdhouses, bears, moose, and fish might show up in wallpaper borders, in fabrics, bedding, and accessories. For a rustic room you might also choose comfy plaid patterns, flannel fabrics, and log or pine beds. Accessories might use forest themes of animals, mountain scenes, or natural materials such as pine cones, leaves, and sticks. Take another cue from camp and use a sturdy trunk to store toys. With a room this nice, who needs a vacation?
Rain Forest
Choose a colorful jungle border, or try a jungle area rug. Soft fabric snakes and colorful stuffed birds or butterfly cutouts can add to the decor. Make pillows of animal or jungle prints and use themed accessories. Grrr!
Race Cars
With car racing, you think black and white checkered flags, and a finish line. Find an area rug with a car track design. A car bed might be fun, or decorate the walls with a car wall appliques. Add some framed calendar photos or posters of race cars, and put up narrow shelving to display car collections. Zoom!
Outer Space
Take a trip to the stars using a space theme. An Apollo bed set, outerspace border, or star-studded rocking chair might be just the items that inspires your child to reach for the stars. Paint reflective planets or stars on the ceiling in arrangements of the constellations.
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines
If Dad is in the service, you might let your boy feel patriotic with a room painted in camouflage and outfitted with tanks and desert colors.
Sports
From soccer to baseball to football, sports is a theme that spans the generations. To use a baseball theme for example, use a headboard made from bats, hang curtains from bats used as curtain rods, make a baseball lamp, or hang shelving to display gloves, pennants, and trophies. Paint the room in the colors of your son's favorite team. Sports themed rugs, furniture, and beds are another possibility. Create similar looks for other sports, and you'll have a room that is a big "hit" with sports fans. Play ball!
Wild Colors
Go wild by starting with a lively area rug designed in fun colors for a child. Take your cue from the rug for colors and designs for the rest of the room. Use color everywhere! Paint every surface of a bookcase a different color, and do the same with headboard slats, drawer fronts, and chair legs. This is a great way to help your little one learn his colors! Find a fabric to compliment the rug and use it to tie the room together with window valances or floor pillows.
Movie or Cartoon Characters
There's something for everyone in this theme! Whether your son has been captivated by Mickey Mouse, Alladin, Lion King, Toy Story, or Scooby Doo -- you'll probably be able to find bedding, lamps, and other decorative items that use these themes. Towels for the bathroom and toys will be easy to add.
Pirates
The story of Peter Pan can inspire creative parents to design a wonderful room. Boys intrigued by the notion of pirates will love a room using blue ocean themes, ship masts, portholes, netting, treasure boxes, and secret play hideaways.
Knights and Castles
Artistic parents can faux paint castle walls, murals, and blue skies for a truly memorable room. Use the theme of "A Sword in the Stone" or "Camelot" for inspiration. Find another take on this theme offered by for Mercy's Sake in their Galahad collection.
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
There are lots of colorful choices in bedding, fabrics, and wallpaper that feature transportation themes. Make a train track border around the room, hang airplanes from the ceiling, or go wild with a car-shaped bed.
Cowboy Kids
This is a fun theme where you can let your imagination run wild. Think bandana valances, chaps wall hangings, tin stars, horses, rope borders, and more. The baby dude designs offered by for Mercy's Sake offer some fun possibilities. Or check out OliveKids.com Camp Wilderness or the Wild West theme designs from PoshTots.com for more creative examples of this theme and products to add to your decor.
Dinosaurs
From cute and stylized to realistic and ferocious -- dinosaurs themes are still popular. If you suspect this is a passing phase for your little one, then opt for solid color bedding and walls, using theme elements in borders, sheets, valances, and posters.
How much money do you need to make on average to live comfortably on your own?
Alex Anxie
Okay, my family is nagging me to go to college, but i have no idea what i want to do in life since I graduated. My original plan was to join the army or national guard or something but I found out I've got some medical conditions that auto DQd me. So no I have no idea what to do... I really wanted to join the army not for money, but just because it was just something I wanted to do so I could say I accomplished something in life. You know, have that honor of having been a soldier and all that. So I feel like that's a large part of life I'm going to miss out on, never get to experience, and just kind of makes me feel bad.
So now... I really don't know. I'm guessing I just want an easy career. I don't really care about making a ton of money. I jsut want enough to live comfotably, and retire on. Also to be able to save up a few hundred dollars a month in case I have kids or something so it will be a lot of money for their school or whatever else. I don't use that much resources when it comes to heating and air. In winter I just wrap up more, only time I use the heat is for showers, and sometimes in the morning. Only air is the most used thing and only when it's really hot. I eat about 80 dollars worth of food a month -ish. that's going out to eat a few times. Mostly I eat stuff I make at home.
I want to find a tiny cheap house or apartnent or something. So I can work at a regular store and support myself that way if I can only find a minimum wage job. But cheapest places around where I live, just for a 1 bedroom apartment is like 500 dollars Then I'm guessing utilities are like about at least 100 If I go sparingly on it, and 100 for misc other stuff. and about 100 for food. I'm guessing I'll eat more when I work more. then car insurance for me is like 120 for a small car, although I'm on my families plan so idk if it will to up. Especially being so young. So that's at least 920 at minimum while living on my own. And that seems to be if I really go sparingly which wouldn't be comfortable.
Anyone have a list of easy jobs though? I'd at least like to have a job anyways, preferably something that's not a lot of manual labor. I love working nighshifts, at least as the cashier at the store because there aren't many people there so I'm just standing there most of the time. Although I don't work there anymore. And I only worked from 5pm to 12 so it wasn't really night shift, I was just there during the night and it was nice. So since I naturally stay up really late/dont mind working like that "I hear a lot of people don't like night shifts" I figure I would like it.
So... any job ideas?
Maybe I'll work on getting a degree just to say I have one. But what? Only subject in school I liked was science and history, but I sucked at math so that leaves science out of the picture. I guess maybe I can get a degree in history. Then maybe be a teacher... I guess. Because that's really the only thing I can think of that a degree in history would be good for. Any other ideas?
Answer
Nobody can answer how much money will you need. Too many variables, mostly location. Costs a lot to live in California for example. Ohio is much cheaper.
Job or career ideas:
Delivering pizza?
College degrees are overrated. Sure, you need one if you want to be a rocket scientist but most people should not go to college, especially in this internet age when you can learn anything you want on the internet or from books. Student loans are anathema, as is all debt.
Sorry about the non-military thing. Being a Veteran has many advantages. But there are other ways you can do good and which look good on your resume. There are various forms of search and rescue, whether it be the ski patrol, becoming a paramedic or perhaps police work. Depending on where you live, there may be jobs sitting on a fire lookout tower and living in a trailer under it.
A minimum wage job will not allow you to raise kids or send them to college, let alone provide for a wife. If that is your goal, you'll have to do better. As for math, I made a good living for many years being an independent contractor in the handyman and remodeling biz and "tape measure" math and ability to keep a written budget was plenty enough for that.
Car insurance will cost more than you think. Since 2002 I have been a class A (18 wheeler) truck driver so have taken every safety class known to man and at age 57, for liability only (high limits) on an old minivan costs me $172 every 6 months and I have a clean record. That's cheap! Due to age yours will cost more, way more, depending on your State.
Consider motel management, aka "night clerk".
A history degree is like a literature degree; won't help you get a job.
A huge growth industry is in the security biz. Guards, systems, surveillance, cameras, software, installation.
How about sales or working a support call center?
Nobody can answer how much money will you need. Too many variables, mostly location. Costs a lot to live in California for example. Ohio is much cheaper.
Job or career ideas:
Delivering pizza?
College degrees are overrated. Sure, you need one if you want to be a rocket scientist but most people should not go to college, especially in this internet age when you can learn anything you want on the internet or from books. Student loans are anathema, as is all debt.
Sorry about the non-military thing. Being a Veteran has many advantages. But there are other ways you can do good and which look good on your resume. There are various forms of search and rescue, whether it be the ski patrol, becoming a paramedic or perhaps police work. Depending on where you live, there may be jobs sitting on a fire lookout tower and living in a trailer under it.
A minimum wage job will not allow you to raise kids or send them to college, let alone provide for a wife. If that is your goal, you'll have to do better. As for math, I made a good living for many years being an independent contractor in the handyman and remodeling biz and "tape measure" math and ability to keep a written budget was plenty enough for that.
Car insurance will cost more than you think. Since 2002 I have been a class A (18 wheeler) truck driver so have taken every safety class known to man and at age 57, for liability only (high limits) on an old minivan costs me $172 every 6 months and I have a clean record. That's cheap! Due to age yours will cost more, way more, depending on your State.
Consider motel management, aka "night clerk".
A history degree is like a literature degree; won't help you get a job.
A huge growth industry is in the security biz. Guards, systems, surveillance, cameras, software, installation.
How about sales or working a support call center?
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