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How to Decorate a Child's Room on a Budget

It's the place where your bare feet are met with plastic army men, toy cars, tiaras, as well as Barbies. Making a child's room all their own will help keep them more organized, as well as give them a special place to call their own.

1. Start out with having your child help you. After all, it is their room, as well as you want their space to reflect which they are, as well as what they love.
2. Grab a pen as well as paper, because your child will most likely come up with 50 ideas or more.
3. Start with a theme, even two different themes can work well together. For instance, tea parties, as well as a secret garden room. Airplanes as well as firetrucks.
4. Next is the bedding. Printed bedding costs more then solid color bedding - you can save some cash right there. If going with a solid color, choose a color that goes with the theme. You can add regular pillows, as well as even throw in a pillow with a picture on the front of it (maybe a picture of a fish for a nautical room).
5. Choose the wall color carefully. Pick a color that matches the theme, to make it look like it belongs together. If you're a renter as well as banned from painting the walls, you can still add appeal to the walls by simple touches.
6. Add solid color rugs, to save money, or purchase a printed rug that matches the room.
7. Add accessories to shelves, walls, tables, even the curtains. For an insect room, you can dab some glue to silk butterflies as well as attach them to curtains, walls, mirror frames, or tie ribbon onto them as well as hang them in a corner of the room, or from the curtain rod. Decorative knobs are a great way to jazz up old furniture, or give inexpensive Ikea-style furniture a designer look. You can even paint your own knobs as well as really save money!
8. Curtains can be expensive. You can get regular mini blinds, as well as hang a sheer panel in front of it. Sheers can be decorated using fabric paint. Stencil on your design(purchase stencils at craft stores) or freeh as well as the motif, either way, it will look great.
9. Match lighting with your theme. For a firetruck room, purchase a red table lamp with a shade. Stencil or freeh as well as a design onto that as well. Acrylic paints work great on lamp shades.
10. You can find inexpensive art prints online as well as at retail stores. Or you can have your child draw or paint a picture going with the theme, then frame it. Try stenciling designs on picture frames also.

• As you're decorating, be sure to ask your child if he or she likes the way the room looks. With this, it's important to keep them involved.

• Once you start a project like this, your imagination takes over, as well as you might not be able to stop.

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Added: Thu Feb 02 2006

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