DIY Bedrooms for Kids
Bringing your DIY creativity to decorating your children’s bedrooms is a great way to merge their wants and needs with your desire for an attractive space. I think most children want to have a relaxing, inviting bedroom to call their own, but they don’t know how to achieve it.
And as parents, we see the Pottery Barn catalogs, or something similar, and become disheartened that we need to forgo college savings if we want to give our kids a nice bedroom.
My daughter want a “Princess” bedroom, like many little girls her age. I wanted her to have anything BUT a princess bedroom. However, the more I thought about it, it was not the Princess bedroom so much that I objected to it was the licensed character bedroom that I objected to. And just for the record, I feel the same way about licensed characters for boy’s bedrooms too.
A Princess bedroom has to have a few things: pink, purple, and tulle. At least according to my daughter. However, this does not mean that the walls have to be painted one of these colors. I picked a subdued green color that is peaceful.
The bed was a tarnished faux brass that had definitely seen better days. I bought a fun purple spray paint that my daughter picked out to paint the bed frame with. Purple accents are much better, in my opinion, than an entire purple room. They are also much easier to replace.
I bought used furniture and refinished it myself so that it would have that shabby chic feel for less money than the stores are selling it for new.
That is the funny thing about shabby chic style, isn’t it? They charge an awful lot of money for something that looks well used.
I created Nursery Rhyme vignettes with vintage items, including toys and blocks.
These particular ones are located on top of an armoire in the corner of her bedroom.
