Bedroom design for teenage girl?
Question:going to be 16 in august. it is a medium sized room, with a single bed, cream carpet, and pale pink walls. these cannot be altered. at the moment most of the walls are covered in magazine cuttings and photos. how can i make it look more grown up? its quite cluttered, and looks messy and quite horrible!
Answers:
Have you damaged the walls with tape or anything that holds up the magazine clippings? If not, take them all down and put them in a scrapbook (or throw them away), except for your three favorites.
Here's the important part if you want a nice looking room: Pick an "inspiration piece" and use those colors or that motif in the rest of the room. If you have to stick with your current comforter, you might use the colors in that as your jumping off point.
Pick ONE color that appears most in your inspiration piece OTHER than pink. Buy a few pieces of posterboard in that color to use for cheap mattes and put no more than three of your favorite pictures, magazine clippings, or whatever centered attractively on the mattes. (Cut them to the sizes you need.) Arrange those on your walls and you'll have a whole new, much more grown-up look, and still keep your favorite things displayed.
Go through the clutter and make some tough decisions about what you can't use/wear or don't want any more and get rid of it - either donate it to a charity or have a yard sale - you'll feel so much better with the clutter gone!
If you still need additional storage after you've narrowed down your things, get some under-the-bed storage boxes so it won't be able to take over your room.
Last, but not least, follow the "one in, one out" rule - if you bring something new IN, you have to toss something old OUT. Best of luck!
Get a few picture frames at thrift stores or yard sales. Spray the frames all one color. Put the photos & magazine cuttings in those frames in a collage manner. The things inside the frames can still be cluttered and layered, but the tidy coordinated frames will make things look much neater.
...of course nothing freshens up a room as quickly and easily as getting rid of stuff. If you toss out as much as you can bear to part with you will find the redecorating project goes much better.
It’s a good idea to know what you have before you begun to change things. As you begin to pull your design ideas together, think about your preference and what will work in your room. Let's face it; we've all got to start somewhere when it comes to home decorating ideas.
revamp the magazine cuttings and photos, by framing. The size and syle of the frames can add a more grown up touch.
try to make your room look punk's crib, celebrity's crib, or make your room look simple. buy things will help you organize your things and clothes. add some framed pictures on the walls. if you don't have frames for your pictures, go buy frames. try to get more new small furnitures for you to get comfortable in your room. if u don't have tv, go get it.
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