Decorating Kid's Rooms
This information applies to decorating all kids' rooms. But if you are looking for girls and boys specific information, see Decorating a Girl Bedroom or Decorating a Boy Bedroom.
Kid's Bedroom Furniture
A basic furniture style can be chosen that will span the themes and the ages, unless you decide you want to do some painting techniques while decorating kid rooms. If you do, you'll need to keep the long term goal in mind, or be prepared to repaint in a few years.
And speaking of furniture you can find some great deals on furniture and decor for your Kids' room online! So don't be afraid to shop online because many places offer special shipping rates to get your order.
And in reality, the furniture prices plus the shipping charges aren't bad when you figure how much time it would take you to hit all the furniture stores to make a choice, and then end up paying for delivery anyway. Who'd of thought we would be ordering furniture online for decorating kid's rooms and having it delivered to our homes?
Another consideration is kid's storage, whether in the form of shelves, armoires, chests or lockers. There's going to be "stuff", and it all needs to go somewhere.
Both WalMart and Target offer some great online deals, and Bellacor offers free shipping on specific items of furniture.
Decorating Kid Rooms with Accessories
After you have your basic foundation furniture, you can add in some theme items like pillows, posters, wall hangings, blanket throws, kid lamps, decorative drawer knobs etc. to add some punch to the room.
Using solid color bedding doesn't have to be boring. When decorating kid rooms, choose colors that will blend with several different child room themes. I've seen some really nice solid comforters that have a multi-color piping on the edge that adds a little extra spice. Then when you toss on a couple theme pillows or a throw, it really stands out and adds some punch.
If you are going with area rugs, I would again purchase basic styles. Theme rugs can be very costly, and limit your use when decorating kid rooms and you want to make changes later. However, a small theme rug makes a great wall hanging, and would look great above the headboard and often is less expensive than theme posters and prints.
On the other hand . . .
You can take this all as worth a grain of salt, if you don't mind spending a little extra money every few years when decorating kid's rooms. You can actually get some nice theme kid bedding in one of those 'bed-in-a-bag' packages. Some of them are poor quality, but if you only plan to use them 2 or 3 years, it'll still work as long as you've kept your walls and window treatments fairly basic.
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