Bedroom makeover help...?
Question:i'm planning that my walls be a light purple.
I need some ideas of pink bedspreads. (include pistures please)
I also need some overall room ideas and things to hang on the wall, rugs, throws, pillows, etc. (include pictures if you have some please)
Thanks soooo much! and any addition advices, tips, recommendations, etc. will be much appriciated!
Answers:
Get rope lights and string them around the edge of your celing. It looks soo cool lit up. Door beads are fun, until they get annoying. I like Shag rugs, they feel good on my feet.
Hang photos and posters up on your walls, such as a favorite movie, or actor, and friends. Hang your own art up.
There are pretty cool bean-bag type chairs out now. Those are good for just sitting around.
Be creative, and don't be shy.
this place always has the most beautiful bedding. nothing in pink, but the photos are definitely good for a few ideas
Gathering samples is a great way to begin. You can start by looking through magazines, and catalogs. There are no hard or fast rules or must-do sequence for this process.
Bedding: You can start by going to www.wakeupfrankie.com which is an amazing site that ranges from cheap to semi-expensive items for your bed and room that apply to every kind of group there is, ie prep, punk, indie, player. I've purchased a ton from this site and it's amazing! There's a forum for discussing things to do to your room as well and you can find pre-designed segments that provide a detailed picture and a descriptive paragraph on how to decorate if forums aren't your thing.
Furniture: GoodWill, Salvation Army, Amvets, thrift stores, antique stores, and dumpster diving may not be your thing, and you might want good clean furniture to make new memories with instead of picking up peoples old ones. While these may be cheap alternatives, spending the money to find new furniture will be worth it in the future when you move out.
1. http://www.foamiture.com/ : This site sells foam furniture that is sturdy with a vinyl coat that allows every spill and no washing. Just wipe whatever you spilled off. The colors are somewhat strange but somewhat normal, too. Compared to the majority of other couches, chairs, and ottomans, this stuff is some of the cheapest NEW furniture you'll find. Plus, your friends will rave about how comfy and unique it is. A sofa is $199 and a chair is $139, but believe me, the cost is worth the fun of plopping down in one of them!
2. www.craigslist.com : Find your city and look at the furniture there. It's cheaper and more easily accessible than the other stores. It's more reasonable and you can bargain.
3. www.wickedelements.com :This site is kind of expensive, but once you actually see what you're paying for, you'll find it's reasonable. That doesn't make the price go down any, but it's still a nice thought and the images are nice, too.
4. www.ikea.com : Good site, good furniture, good prices. Cheaper than most places you'll find, but still on the expensive side if you're paying for it without a parent's help.
Decoration: You can go out and buy some things or stay in and create them yourself. Depending on your artistic creativity, you can make anything out of everything you've got lying around. For example, you can take a picture frame and add in a mix of puzzle pieces, photographs, ribbons and shells. Hang it on the wall.
1. www.partycity.com :You can find everything music and punk rock here for reasonable prices as far as cool decor goes.
2. www.wakeupfrankie.com : Once again, there's a forum and people you can collaborate with on your room.
3. www.ask.com : You can type in different types of projects you want or simply "teen room makeover" and you'll get lots of options.
4. You can make your own tables out of tires or trash cans and you can snatch stop signs and street signs. Take plain lampshades and add dangling trim and paint designs on it or add pictures or small stickers. Put up fake awards. Magazine clipping collages work well. Take a band shirt that doesn't fit anymore and stretch it over some corkboard and -voila- you have a bulletin board that rocks. Put up shelves and show off collectables or little trinkets.
5. Take a styrofoam ball and get some tacky glue or a hot glue gun. You can either buy small pieces of a mirror in a craft store or break cds up and glue them together to make a disco ball. Take sharpies and color some of the pieces for a cool reflection effect.
6. www.hottopic.com :Cool posters and trinkets, also some awesome blankets. I bought one for my room and it's REALLY soft.
7. www.spencersgifts.com : They've got more than enough in all the themes you want for your room. They have sweet lights and amazing posters. They've got a wide variety of music and funky items for your room, so buy away!
Walls: You can do everything with these. Just a little imagination and you're good to go.
1. You can cover a wall entirely with posters.
2. Cut designs out of sponges and paint them on the wall.
3. Write your favorite song lyrics or phrases in glow in the dark paint and black light.
4. Draw your favorite characters from shows on the walls.
5. Splatter the walls, checkerboard them, make them diamond-like, polka-dotted, stripes, or solid.
Lights: These make great additions to the room in ways you might not recognize. They set moods and make cool effects.
1. String rope light around the room.
2. Put Christmas lights (net, not string) on the ceiling and hang CDs and mini guitars.
3. Put lamps in the corners of the room and swap out the normal lights for black lights or colored lights.
4. Get the lights you can screw in and hang lights that can be adjusted.
Mix and match everything for a really cool look. It'll be difficult to make up your mind at first but once you get a final solid idea, the rest is going to be much easier. Also, while a lot of this stuff may seem too dark or these places may seem too out of a stereotype, they sell a ton of stuff that fits all kinds of people regardless of the appearance of the stores themselves.
Also, make sure you make an accurate sketch of the design for your room before you paint anything or buy anything. Draw out what you want your room to look like. Start buying things then. Once you've got what you want, see if there are any changes you'd like to make to the sketch. If not, find a friend or two, and paint away!
If you need anything else, backlash_symphony@yahoo.com. Good luck! Till later!
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