Updating a teen's bedroom can be done simply with some paint, wall art, and personalized fabrics.
The most important thing when decorating a teen's bedroom is to allow the teen input so that the room really is a reflection of who they are. Just like the rest of us, teens can have very stressful lives and they need a place to retreat and feel comfortable and happy. They are searching for who they really are and designing their own bedroom provides an outlet where they can express themselves creatively. Here are some ideas to get everyone started.
Color
Planning your color scheme is the first thing you want to do before you start decorating. Bright colors are very popular at the moment, such as a vivid pink and candy-apple green. Color schemes in the same hue are very pleasing to the eye. Think about staying in the cool colors, with greens, blues, and purples, or go with a warmed-up bedroom in yellows, oranges, and reds. Boy bedrooms are traditionally focused on navy, but other color schemes are just as functional. A khaki with green tones is soothing or use a crisp red and white to make the room pop. Let your teen visit the paint store and browse through all the paint chips to see what catches their eye. Alongside the paint chips are many booklets with color scheme ideas and suggestions.
Artwork
If your child is already artistically inclined, they may already have artwork ready for hanging on their walls. Have them pick their favorite pieces and then design the feel of the room around them. If they don't have anything ready-made, there are many ideas they can choose. Buy blank canvases at the craft store and invite their friends over. Each person can create their own masterpiece for hanging in the art gallery/bedroom. Kids love photos of themselves. Have them select images you've already taken or have a mini photo shoot in the backyard with the digital camera and find enough photos to make collages or blown-up posters for wall art. Even a regular poster can become art. Have your teen shred the poster into long strips or rip it into bits and then put it back together in a ramshackle style on a colored tacky board and frame it.
Words
Stencil words on the wall for impact. Find a spot above the door, the window, or the bed. Then help the child choose what they would like to say. Maybe they have a line from a poem they wrote in English class or a favorite lyric from a song. If they can't think of anything, borrow a quote book from the library and have them peruse it for great ideas. Or they can simply put their name somewhere or a simple saying, such as:
Sweet Dreams or Friends Welcome Here
Ribbon
This idea is especially great for girls' rooms. Updating current plain fabrics or inexpensively purchased monochromatic pillows, bedding, and curtains is easy with some beautiful ribbons. Ribbon can be sewed on easily (and may even be taught in your child's home economics class!) or you can find iron-on ribbon or peel and stick ribbon. You can keep the ribbons all of the same thickness and style or mix it up with skinny and wide ribbons and scalloped edges or plain. Ribbons come in different patterns and every color in the rainbow. First find colors to suit your theme at a fabric store or a craft store. Then apply the ribbon to your choice of fabric. For example, if you are doing a pillow, you can stripe it, weave it, or outline the edges. Consider doing a valance for the windows made of dangling ribbons. Dangling ribbons can also be looped and sewn over the edge of a hoop along with a long sheer fabric and placed above the head of the bed for a princess effect.
Makeshift Fabrics
Use everyday objects as fabrics. Make an old favorite athletic jersey into a pillow. Who else can say they have a Brett Favre #4 jersey pillow? Use team pennants and let them drape down side by side for a window valance. Use the high school colors for pom poms as the decorative hardware at the end of the curtain rods. Cut out pieces from baby clothes and other fabrics that you couldn't part with and make it into a quilt. The ideas are endless!
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I think that it would be a really good idea just to put words up to
describe your personality. ( for example if you are a really laid back
person than you would put up something like peace,harmony,or loce. ) those
are some good ides just to liven up your walls/ bedroom.
-~Me~
Aug 22, 2008 3:27 PM
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that sounds nice! also words of inspiration and emotion would be cool...
not words like hate and stuff, but confidence, laughter, crazy, creativity,
etc. I dunno though i prob wouldnt ever do that...lol
Sep 15, 2008 5:09 PM
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You could paint the walls black with all different color polka-dots!
Nov 6, 2008 1:01 AM
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Hmm... I actually think you're pretty right. I'm 15, and currently
designing my own room! Nice ideas, tbh. But yeah, i'm thinking of using a
color scheme of Pink and White? But I have brown furniture that i'd never
want to replace (Antiques!)... Do you think that it'd still look good?
Dec 27, 2008 3:46 PM
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my opion is like if you are intrested in fasion make it look like your
personality is like.
Down 2 earth could be like maybe blue and
light colered walls. Put up posters or light some candles.
This
is just me.My room is BIG...I sleep on a couch...Lots of candles and plants
and books...I have a T.V. a and a computer...jewlrey and makeup and
hairthings...some things on the wall...2 closets...a painio...and its the
only one on the top floor
I hope my opionion is useful.This is
just me
"me"
Jan 26, 2009 7:07 PM
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Hey i'm a fourteen year old chick and i think this is the most awsomest
website since facebook! So many ideas! i'm truely in decorating
heaven!!!! thanx so much 4 the ideas *cassie*
Mar 23, 2009 8:18 AM
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well im 16 and about to do own room and its centered around my
comforter,bohemian, so my walls are light blue and inside window dark
blue...i like the word idea n i think i need 2 make sum changes :)
Apr 13, 2009 1:08 AM
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i have like 2 different sides to me so im going to split my room in two on
one side have 'a fine mess' stencilled on my wall cause im never organised
and my bedroom is always a tip and on the other side i might have something
like 'Manhattan from the Sky' or 'Behind Enemy Lines' (my fave 2 songs) or
maybe even 'Reverie'. (to dream while awake) cause i do it all the time. ahh this website has given me sooo many ideas. also i love old black and
white photos! so im gonna look around town and see what i can fine.
May 22, 2009 11:24 AM
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Living in a brighter way can help with almost every problem that you may be
having. I have the thought that you may want to add lighting in your living
space, not to much though maybe just a couple of lamps. A nice yellow to go
on your wall would look good also, now don't go to bright or then it will
look this bright pee lol..
May 26, 2009 4:13 PM
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Before I went to college, I covered one of my walls with a collection of my
favorite record albums that I found at yard sales and thrift stores. This
was inexpensive and a fasastic focal point of the room.
Jun 15, 2009 11:02 AM
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I don't know what to do. My daughter Gianni is a tom-boy and insists on
having a football themed room centering around Reggie Bush (her fav
football player) I keep telling her that she will grow out of the football
and boyish phase and start to like girly things.(She wants to love boy
things forever though.) Her room is currently pink and yellow (her little
sister, Nueva, picked out the colors while she was on vacation with her
friends.) They used to share the room, but now she has the room to herself
and can't stand the girlyness of it. It's almost like i have a teenage
son, not daughter...UGH! HELP ME!!! -Stay at HOme Mommy
Jun 16, 2009 1:07 PM
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this is a good websitee. i like some of the ideas even down here on the
comments. my sister just moved out of the house so i am getting her room.
im siked!! but i am trying to look for ideas on decorating because i want
to start out new and fresh in my new room. i need to figure out ways to
stay organized and cuteee. annyy ideas??!
[:
Jun 16, 2009 1:40 PM
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Stay at Home mom:
Here are a few suggestions:
compromise w/ your "daughter". Maybe put up some football
things, that can easily be taken down when she's grown out of the phase.
You could paint the room a color both boys & girls like (maybe blue?).
I also strongly suggest that you use the stencil words to put up some
slogans of bands, or things she saaya alot. ~Shh~
Jun 29, 2009 6:52 AM
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hi. for my room i choose a bright yellow, a darker pink, and white. i am
thinking about putting the words live. love. laugh on my walls in pink and
having the main wall color be yellow with some white accents... i think it
will be a very "happy" room.
