I need some decorating tips for a kids bedroom?

Arthur G

We are moving into an apartment and my kids will be sharing a room. They are a four year old boy and a two year old girl. I need some decoration ideas for their bedroom that I can do in an apartment. I know I can't paint or nail too much stuff to the walls.

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Use solid colored bed spreads or comforters that will compliment each other but are boy/girl colors ...
Get some stackable Organizer shelves & cubby for books, toys, etc.
and use colored fabric lined baskets or boy/girl colored crates @ Michaels Crafts or JoAnns to store the small stuff...
Put easel backed pictures on top of the shelf/cubby units for added color.

I'm trying to decorate the kids room and need nursery pictures to see what I like best?

habibatAll

it's for a girl toddler

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marthastewart.com is one good site. Examples:
http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/petite-suites?lnc=828bdfc3832ee010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&rsc=taxonomylist_home_decorating-kids-rooms-nurseries
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/simply-colorful-nursery?lnc=cd1eab78367ee010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&rsc=taxonomylist_kids_decorating-kids-rooms
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/nursery-art?lnc=cd1eab78367ee010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&rsc=taxonomylist_kids_decorating-kids-rooms

cookiemag.com is another good site. Example:
http://www.cookiemag.com/gear/2006/10/roomservice?currentPage=3

dominomag.com is also a good site. Examples:
http://www.dominomag.com/galleries/rooms/bedroom/kidsbeds4
http://www.dominomag.com/magazine/2007/01/woodycrest_slide31
http://www.dominomag.com/galleries/paint/paint_rainbow_23

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Ideas for kids bedroom and building shelves!!!!?

Christen

We live in a beautiful home only the 2 extra bedrooms aren't very big. I need ideas on how to better store stuff so my sons room is more roomy and better organized. I plan on making a huge wall shelf that goes up high on the wall and painting it navy blue and getting red canvas containers and putting up there to hold some stuff and decorating it with the sports theme and a couple stuffed animals. Its gonna be huge. I'm excited about my project but maybe you got better ideas or more ideas on how to make my sons room amazing. Eye appealing and organized. Thanks for all the help I can get.

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A kid's bedroom should feel safe, comfortable and have a touch of whimsy. Important considerations are the child's age and interests. If your child is a book lover, collector of Beanies, dolls or baseball memorabilia, you can honor these interests by creating a special space in her room. With your guidance, your child and you can make a great decorating team.

Step 1

Have a chat with your toddler. Does he have a favorite superhero or cartoon? A favorite color? Your son will always remember your respect for his opinion, so this is an important first step.

Step 2

Paint the room and a few furniture pieces to match the walls, such as a bedside table and a headboard.

Step 3

Decorate your toddler's room with bright colors of your (and his) choosing. Find some "big kid" furnishings. Toddlers are learning to dress themselves, so find a short dresser with big knobs. Paint them in bright colors. This allows toddlers to easily pull out the drawers and experience choices in the way they dress.

Step 4

Place a group of cubbies on the floor or hang them on the wall at a height that's reachable for your toddler. Paint them in bright colors, and label them in big letters for things like crayons, books, Playdoh, etc. Cubbies are a great way for kids to learn groupings of objects and organizing. If they go to daycare, they can put their daily arts and crafts projects away in their cubbies until you hang them up later.

Step 5

Frame their artwork. Choose a group of colorful, inexpensive frames and put your child's best pieces into them. Hang them where your child can admire them while dozing off to sleep.

Step 6

Purchase a large toy box at an unpainted furniture store. Paint it in colors that suit your child's tastes. You and your child can paint it together, or he might want to put handprints in different colors all over the box.

Step 7

Choose bedding in colors that complement the paint on the walls and other furnishings. Clashing colors and too much busy-ness should be avoided. Even kids need an oasis.

Step 8

Lay out a soft rug near his bed, especially if you have hardwood flooring. It's a nice way for little toes to meet a new day.

Step 9

Make a space for their collections. Bookshelves can store more than books--they're also a good way to showcase memorabilia. Hang pictures of superheroes, cartoon characters and sports figures or place them on shelves.

Step 10

Realize the importance of consulting with your grade-schoolers or preteens before you decorate their bedrooms. Many preteens will love taking more responsibility for a project like this. It allows them to express their individuality and even show off some innate design skills. Encourage and support their good choices, and provide the structure where needed.

Step 11

Find a big, soft chair or a bean bag and put it near a window or in a corner. It's place where a child, no matter what age, can dream, read or listen to music.

For storage:

Step 1

Make More Storage Space in the Closet

Adding additional rods for hanging clothes is a way to make more storage space in the closet.
⢠Take the existing clothes rod and re-install it at the height where dresses, pants, house coat, or other long items will hang just so they are off the ground.
⢠Install an additional rod above the first rod so shirts, skirts, suit jackets and shorter items will hang.
⢠Organize the clothes on each rod by color, season, etc.

Step 2

More Shelves Make More Storage Space

Instead of piling items on top of each other on one shelf, add shelves.
⢠Look in the closet, pantry, kitchen, and bathroom to see if more shelves can be added.
⢠Most existing shelves can be moved up or down a notch to provide the space necessary to hold items properly and provide room for additional shelves.
⢠Take all items off the shelves and organize according to height or how much the item is used.
⢠Start with the lowest possible position and put the most used items on the shelf.
⢠Place the second shelf one â two inches above the items on the lowest shelf and place the next items.
This will create more storage space for linens, clothes, food, cleaning items, etc.

Step 3

Storage Space - Canned Good Container

Make More Storage Space â Use Storage Containers

Storage containers can be plastic totes that stack on top of each other or pre-made units for closets, pantries, or other places in the home.
⢠Look around the home to see where items may be stacked and determine what needs to be stored appropriately to make more space.
⢠Look at a local hardware or retail store to find a storage container to properly store those items. Spice racks, canned good units, stackable closet drawers, DVD/CD storage units, under-the-bed containers for off-season clothes are all items that will create more space.
⢠Place items in the storage container and see how organization creates more space.

Step 4

Walls Make Storage Space

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help decorating my kids bedroom?

princessta

my kids share a room my daughter is 8 years old and shes into hello kitty stuff, and my son is 3 years old and hes into spider man lol....for now they are sharing a room and hes still scared of sleeping on his own, my son will have his own room when hes ready to sleep on his own. for now his room is being used as a toy room. i need ideas or atleast pages where i can look at pictures ive googled and its frustrating lol

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Keep their furniture simple and the colors neutral but decorate with hello kitty pillows and spider man pillows

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When do you start decorating for Christmas?

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WTF

My lil child brought up Christmas decoration yesterday. I said gurl, its still September watchu talkin bout Christmas decoration. Well she said so she could hurry Santa Claus along to bring her presents this year. Am I the only crazy one decorating for Christmas and it aint even Halloween yet?

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When it comes to kids it seems to never be too early!=)Its nice of you to do that for your daughter,your helping to make her memories..=)I have reminders of Christmas in my home
year 'round,with items I have for decoration,,like a Santa cookie jar,pot holders,coca cola Santa pictures at various locales,and the guest bedroom is in red , green & gold colors,dedicated to Christmas..I usually bring it all out of the closet Thanksgiving weekend though....As you can see it is my favorite Holiday!=)

How would I go about designing an Audrey Hepburn bedroom?

Lulu

My room is teeny tiny and my mum is allowing me to do whatever I want to it, I want an Audrey Hepburn style room, my family has bought me a few pictures. What colour scheme/furniture would look best to work with the theme? I am 16 next month if thats important...
She was an old hollywood actress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn

Tada!

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Audrey Hepburn was a very stylish lady of the times. She was most famous in films in the 1950's. So I would choose things from that era.

She worn pearls, tight waist belts to show off her tiny waistline, she carried a fashionable purse always and a hat.
She was always very put together.

One of the ideas in decorating in that time frame was to do a black and white decor with splashes of pinks, blacks or grays. Sometimes reds. They had silver fabrics too with lots of shimmer and elegance.
Choose things with lots of sparkle she was a Hollywood star!
Poka-dots were really in fashion.

Furniture was a modern now retro style, very streamline in style or to the other extreme of curves more Victorian in style and often in white or deep wood tones. Tufted headboards on the beds with tacks.
Art nouveau mirrors , elegant chairs, Chrystal glass sparkly lamps.
You can likely find much of the furniture are used stores or Salvation Army stores. A little paint or furniture polish they will look new again.

http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/designs_slide6.php

http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/designs_slide4.php

http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/furniture_showroom.php




http://www.target.com/gp/search/186-4363527-3883358?field-keywords=vintage-50s-furniture&AFID=Google&CPNG=Furniture&LNM=vintage_50s_furniture&LID=23399036&ref=tgt_adv_XSGT0504

http://www.efurniturebuys.com/productdetail.asp?productid=3027&refid=bizrate

http://www.poshliving.com/catalog/Bedding-Bath/Bedding-Collections/Serena-and-Lily-Tess-Bedding-Collection/1106/21165/product_detail.asp

Here are some links to some decals of dots to carry through the idea of poka-dots onto your walls. The poka-dots were usually black on pink or black or red on white. You could paint your room pink and put some dots all over a wall and a few scattered in limited areas on other walls to tie it in.

http://www.dezignwithaz.com/removable-wall-stickers-otherz/bubble-cloud-wall-decals-p-588.html

There is bedding on the market with dots on it to follow through with the dot design plan. Some examples on links below.

http://www.pbteen.com/products/p1351/?catalogId=53&bnrid=3782901&cm_ven=Shopping&cm_cat=Shopzilla.com&cm_pla=Feed&cm_ite=Shopzilla.com


http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Kids-Durham-Polka-Dot-Quilt-Set/3465575/product.html?sec_iid=33969

Or you could paint a large silhouette of Audrey Hepburn on one wall.
Take a look at this link to see what I mean.

http://www.dezignwithaz.com/graphic-wall-decals-characters/dreamz-home-wall-stickers-p-600.html

When you follow the links above scroll and click on the other things on the site when you get to them. Many have lots of ideas for you.

Best wishes have fun and make the room about your love for Audrey Hepburn and your personality too.

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I need some decorating tips for a kids bedroom?

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Arthur G

We are moving into an apartment and my kids will be sharing a room. They are a four year old boy and a two year old girl. I need some decoration ideas for their bedroom that I can do in an apartment. I know I can't paint or nail too much stuff to the walls.

Answer
Use solid colored bed spreads or comforters that will compliment each other but are boy/girl colors ...
Get some stackable Organizer shelves & cubby for books, toys, etc.
and use colored fabric lined baskets or boy/girl colored crates @ Michaels Crafts or JoAnns to store the small stuff...
Put easel backed pictures on top of the shelf/cubby units for added color.

How should I decorate a hipster room?

Chrissy

I wanna decorate my bedroom at my lake house because it still had my kid stuff in it. What should i do to make it look hipster?

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well i recommend putting pictures all over the walls and cut out paper and make letters out of it and put quotes on wall also, and like get vintage vinyls and have them laying around
and lights from your christmas tree just hang them in your window lol(:

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How should I decorate a hipster room?

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Chrissy

I wanna decorate my bedroom at my lake house because it still had my kid stuff in it. What should i do to make it look hipster?

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well i recommend putting pictures all over the walls and cut out paper and make letters out of it and put quotes on wall also, and like get vintage vinyls and have them laying around
and lights from your christmas tree just hang them in your window lol(:

How can I decorate a bedroom that is used for a boy and a girl?

Allie G

I have a little boy and a little girl that are a year apart. Right now they are 1 and 2. I dont know how to decorate their room. I am trying to find a theme and colors. Any organization tips are welcome to. They have so many toys and their bedroom always looks cluttered even when I clean it. I am a first time mom and a first time house buyer. I have no idea how to decorate their room. Please help!!! Thank you!!!

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great bedroom ideas for kids sharing bedrooms
http://kidsthemebedrooms.com/shared-bedrooms/decorating-shared-bedrooms.html

Great theme bedroom decorating ideas, pictures and fun decor
http://kidsthemebedrooms.com

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