Tips on How To Frugally Decorate and Change Your Child’s Room To Accommodate Their Teen Years

by FurnitureGuru on July 26, 2009

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Many kids have the same Style in their bedrooms all through their childhood and when they become teenagers, they want a cooler style and some updated items that will take their room through their teen years. This will give you tips on great ideas to redo your teenagers room in a great but inexpensive way like making your own decorative pieces using art supplies, frames and foam board.

Teenagers are very opinionated on what they like and don’t like so selecting the kind of theme for their room should be the easy part of the entire project . Once your son or daughter selects the colors that they like and the type of vibe they choose] to have in the room you need to come up with a plan to make it all easiset method to change a room and also a less costly method . Many younger adults like to use bold colors in addition to stripes. Use masking or painters blue tape to measure out and section off spaces where you want to have different colors or stripes painted. Don’t forget , that darker colors make a room seem smaller than it really is.

Typically the focal point of a room is the bed and this typically is one of the items that must be replaced for your new teen . Often times you purchase your child a twin bed from the moment they get out of a crib and by the time they are in their teens , they have trouble sleeping well for the rapidly growing bodies. Also, many younger children have bunk beds and that is something that they absolutely do not want their friends to see once they become older . So buying a new bed that can take them into their young adult years would be the next step. A double or a queen size bed are the typical option depending on the dimensions of the room and also the size of your child .

Therefore, the next project would be making the headboard for the new bed frame to save money rather than buying one at the store. Select a fabric that you would like to coordinate with the curtains and use that for the headboard . You can typically locate good fabric remnants for a lower price at fabric stores and use cheap MDF board which is the least expensive type of wood. Measure the size of the bed and then have a person at the home improvement store cut it to your needed size . By batting and a strong staple gun and cover the board with a lot of cushioning followed by the fabric to make a beautiful custom headboard.

To decorate in a fun way purchase inexpensive frames and art paper and either have your son or daughter paint some artwork using the colors of the room or cut out pictures from calendars or magazines that they can place in frames . These are a bargain and can be changed out frequently.