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Garden Themed Kid’s Bedroom

Every child has a unique type of choice. Some of the children like gardens and the atmosphere of the garden. So you can prepare a garden themed bedroom for your child if he or she likes garden and its atmosphere. Mostly, the girl child likes garden themed bedroom. You can increase your girl child’s adventure by creating a garden themed bedroom for her at your home. You can follow some of tips written below, which can help you to create a garden themed bedroom for your child:

For preparing the floor of her room you can provide a grassy look to the floor in her bedroom. For this you have to purchase some remnants of green shag carpet. After purchasing this type of carpet you have to cut some pieces out of them and scatter them in the room for creating a grassy look of the floor.

For the wall treatment of her garden themed bedroom, you can paint the walls of the room with light blue colored paint. It will provide a natural and perfect look to your child’s room. You can paint the walls with sky blue color and can also paint some white clouds on them for a natural look of outside. You can place some pickets in her garden themed room also and can install some hand made and hand painted flowers in these pickets for her garden.

For preparing the bed, you can use a garden arbor as a headboard of his bed, and can give an extra look to her bed. After fitting the arbor as a headboard of her bed, you can decorate this arbor with silk flowers and some other decorative things. For the bedding of her garden themed bedroom, you can choose some plane bed sheets, pillow covers and some fabric crayons. You or your child can draw the pictures of different flowers, birds and garden related things on the bed sheets and pillow covers. For getting best results, you should follow the instruction given on the crayon box. You can also purchase the fabric of the bed sheets and pillow covers with garden related print on it.

For her dresser, you can paint the name of different flowers of her choice on her dresser. For doing this you require a stencil kit, paintbrushes, paints of her choice. After getting all these things, you can start your work. You can fix the letters of the names of the flowers with the help of adhesive spray on the back of every letter. After fixing the letters you can cover the remaining part with the help of paint. You have much creativity in you then you can paint the pictures of the flowers on the dresser also.

For the window treatment in her room, you can wrap the curtain rod of her room with silk flowers and can hang the curtains with flowers and butterflies painted on them. It will provide an extra look to her room.

To hide the disorder or clutter of your child’s room you can prepare some storage place for her room. You can purchase some pots of terra-cotta and can paint them well, and use them for storing pens and pencils and other small items in her room. You can also use some big flower pots for keeping your child’s dirty clothes in them. These pots will work like laundry baskets. You can paint the outside of the flower pots with your or your child’s choice.

Your little child will definitely like this garden themed bedroom.

Sports Themes for Girls’ Bedroom

Sports theme is the best idea for the girls’ bedroom. By creating this sports theme bedroom for your daughter, you can reflect her passion for the sports. There are different types of sports, on the basis of which you can create a sports themed bedroom for your daughter.

  • Basketball: You can put a basketball banner on the wall of her room. In this banner, you can also add your daughter’s photograph in basketball outfit. Name and logo of her team can also be printed on the banner. You can also place a basketball basket on the wall. You can paint her room with her favorite basketball teams’ color. You can prepare the headboard of the bed in the shape of a basketball and cover it with the fabric with basketball color. You can also add your creativity to make it more exciting, by adding the detail related to basketball on the fabric, with fabric paint.
  • Softball: It is a simple game. It makes the room simple also. For this you have to paint the wall of her room with white paint. After painting, with the help of paint make thin dotted stripes on the walls which look like stitching in a baseball. You can prepare a pegboard by writing the word “Champs” on it with the help of paint. You should use simple window treatments for her room. You can add a baseball on the each end of the curtain rod. You should purchase bedding for her bed, according to the favorite team. You can also use some throw pillows with the fabric, with print of famous teams’ uniforms. You can paste some bumper stickers, which you can easily purchase on internet.
  • Football: Girls often like football. So you can prepare a Football themed bedroom for your daughter. You can use pale yellow color for painting the walls of her room. For the window treatments and bedding, you can use denim fabric. You can also purchase wallpapers with football printed on them and can paste them on the walls. You can decorate the dresser of her room with football shaped knobs.
  • Soccer: For the theme based on this sport, you should paint a large soccer ball on the wall of her bedroom. There is no need to paint the ball with black color. You can paint it with her favorite pastel color. Wall treatment related with this sport can match with bedding of any style. You should purchase simple bedding and window treatment for her room. You can purchase quilted pillows matching with soccer ball’s color which you have painted on the wall.
  • Gymnastics: For a gymnastics theme, you should choose bold colors. You can use lime green, black and white, or use red, white, and blue for Gymnastics theme. You can also use the colors displayed in the Olympic rings: black, blue, red, yellow and green, and there are many wall murals featuring the Olympic Rings that would enhance the design. If she competes, she might want to use the colors of her gymnastics team. You should provide necessary space for her trophies and medals. In between the shelves, you could also display framed pictures of your gymnast in action.
Decorating Kids Room – Train Themed Bedroom

Train themed bedrooms are often requested by youngsters of either sex. There are different types of material available in the market by which parents can prepare a train-themed bedroom for their children. If your child likes trains, there are several tips that can help you to create a bedroom based on train theme.

You can start with the walls of the room. You can get a related mural for an accent wall and paint the adjacent walls a coordinating color. You can use red, blue or green colors for the wall. Firstly, you have to draw a curvy line on the room walls at a height, which can easily be seen. You have to paint the color like green, red and blue, below that line. You have to draw the line with thin black color. Then you have to paint another line beneath this line and perpendicular lines to the parallel lines for creating a train track. Now you have to start with the simple train engine for creating train cars. You can write your child’s name on these train cars.

In train themed furniture, you can use any type of furniture style. It should not be so formal. For the child’s room you can purchase a bed in a form of “Thomas the Tank”. You can also carve a train shaped bed of plywood, painted with train like colors. For the bedding, there are several styles for train themed bedroom. You can purchase bed sheets, and pillow covers with print of train, or train related things on it. You can also purchase curtain panels matching with this theme. You can also save your money, by mixing and matching your general things with the theme.

Purchase a stoplight for the child’s room in a shape of floor lamp. You can also install a train track on the wooden shelf in your child’s room. This shelf with train track can be built all around the room. You can display a working train or train made by wood, on this wooden shelf. Working trains can be run wirelessly or from an electrical outlet while stationary train cars from a train set simply makes a great accessory. Use train images for artwork on the walls. You can hang paintings of train on the walls of the room. For an extra effect, you can hang a conductor’s hat in the room. You can paint the child’s dresser with black color and put stickers with cities name on it, which will provide resemblance of a traveling trunk in the train.

You can light the room with a side table lamp with a train theme or fix a small train onto the base of a plain table lamp with the help of glue to enhance your train theme.

Decorating Kids Room – Create Hawaiian Themed Bedroom

Every child wants his bedroom to look different. Different people apply different types of themes for their child’s room according to their mood and choice. Hawaiian is one type of themes. With this Hawaiian theme, your child can enjoy his or her vacation at your home.  You can also involve your child in preparing this Hawaiian themed bedroom Following are some tips for the Hawaiian themed bedroom:

For a Hawaiian themed bedroom, you should focus on the ocean, surfing, ships, and sea wildlife, or all of them in a combination. You can also look around your house to get anything that you can use in the room. You can also use your family vacation photographs, or an old print or painting with a beach, ship, or ocean for your child’s room.

While deciding for a color scheme, you should keep in mind the color choice of your child. Texture of the Hawaiian themed bedroom should be soft and relaxing. You should use blue, orange, yellow and green color for boy’s room and pink, red and orange colors for the girl’s room. You can use any background color that you see near the ocean for the bedroom of your child. You can apply grass colored wallpaper for the walls of bedroom also. It will give a natural look to your child’s bedroom. Color scheme of the Hawaiian themed bedroom also depends on the size and shape of the room. If you apply a dark color, it may make a room look smaller and on the other side light color make it look larger. If you can paint well, then you can also paint a beach or a ocean scene on the walls of the room.

For the floor of the room, you can use a good quality of commercial carpet. There are different designs and patterns available in the market. You can also purchase carpet matching with walls. The use of commercial carpet will provide an extra look and beauty to the texture of the room than any other type of carpet. Other than these carpets, you can also use other types of natural floor covers, jute rugs etc. to provide a natural look to it.

The furniture of Hawaiian room is also very important. For the Hawaiian themed bedroom, furniture should be of different type. It should be simple and of light weight. Its color is not as much important, as its style. You can also use bamboo for the windows and headboard treatment, to provide a different look to the furniture of the room. You can also use extra seating furniture with light weight in the child’s room. You can add a Hawaiian touch to the new as well as to your old furniture also. You can paint the sea flowers on the surface of the furniture to give it an extra look. You can also give a new look to your child’s toy box, with your painting skills.

Hawaiian themed fabric includes prints with bold floral on it. Mostly seen flower on this fabric is hibiscus. This fabric is available in a multicolor combination for e.g. black and red etc. You can make the quilt cover, bed sheets and pillow covers with this fabric. You can also use this type of fabric for the window and door treatment also. You can use seashells as curtain holdbacks in this room.

You can provide a final touch to the room by placing containers with full of seashells or sand. You can also decorate picture frame for your child’s room by using seashells on its edges. Your child will really enjoy his room with this theme.

Decorating Kids Room – Nascar Furniture and Crafts

If you have a little NASCAR fan in your home, and if your child enjoys anything mechanical that has wheels, use a cool car and truck bedroom theme in his room. This will be a great surprise for him. Or if your child is into NASCAR, use cars and colors from that sport. Select your child’s favorite vehicles to create a car and truck bedroom he’ll love. There are some tips to prepare a NASCAR themed bedroom.

You can bring the excitement of races in your child’s room with a finish line painted across the floor. You require masking tape, stencils, paintbrushes and paint cans of colors of your choice. After gathering the required material, you can create the finish line on the floor with the help of these things. After making line, you can write the word ‘FINISH’ with the help of stencils, and stencil adhesive spray, and fill the word with paint. Allow the paint to dry, after drying you can remove the stencils.

For the walls of the room, select a color scheme. If your child is a NASCAR fan, use the colors of his favorite car for the walls and ceiling. A garage theme bedroom calls for a gray-blue paint color. Or opt for your child’s favorite shade of blue such as deep blue, sky blue, pale blue and aqua blue if you want a general car theme. The blue can serve as a sky backdrop of all the cars and trucks racing around his room. You can also paint the numbers of the favorite drivers of your child. You can also create a street or racetrack on the ceiling or the wall. Paint a racetrack on top of the ceiling or on the wall with gray paint and a wide sponge brush. Allow the paint to dry before painting white lines in the middle of the track, and allow the paint to dry. You can attach small racing cars to the ceiling with the help of glue, as they give actual look to the race track. With the help of stencils and paint, you can create a wall border of cars and trucks to tie this theme together. You can also place a mural that matches your theme for the walls.

For the bed and bedding, you can use a car bed and bedding set that matches your theme. You can also toss some decorative pillows shaped like wheels, cars and trucks on the bed to make it different. There are Licensed NASCAR bedding coordinates are available in many different styles. If you have a certain driver in mind, chances are there is a bedding set with their name and number on it. You can then match sheets sets, pillows, valances and window curtains and wallpaper. For window treatment you can also hang curtains that match the theme you have selected. Choose curtains covered with racecars, dump trucks or bulldozers, or a print that has all kinds of cars and trucks.

For the dresser, you can use a storage cabinet with many drawers on it to store your child’s clothes and other things. You can also paint a dresser or chest with a bright red color so it looks like a toolbox.

You can also use some accessories for the room that match your theme. Install shelves in the bedroom so your child can display his construction trucks, model cars, race cars and other toys. Allow your child to decorate these shelves with car stickers if he likes. You can also pin up some checkered flags on the walls. If you choose a garage theme, display a set of plastic tools on the wall. You can also place a lamp on a bedside table that has a car or truck for a base. You can use framed artwork of cars and trucks for the wall or can hang up posters of his favorite cars and trucks on the wall.

If you try to apply this theme on his room, it will be a great surprise for him. He will really enjoy his room.

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