Decorating a Girl Bedroom - Lose the Baby Look!
I feel a decorating a girl's bedroom project coming on! She's ready to get out of that toddler bed, and she wants to get rid of the baby room, and have a big girl's room. Did you use one of those convertible cribs? If so you already have your headboard. But if you didn't you'll need to look for a new one, or redo an old one.
When decorating a girl bedroom there are so many cute things you can use for a headboard. How about using a section of old picket fence, or buy a new section and paint it, or make your own with pickets. I like the ones that are higher in the middle. They just seem to have more style with a little shape.
Paint it your color of choice, or leave it with the old worn finish. If you do leave the old worn finish, at least put a coat of water based satin varnish over it to keep the paint from chipping off and make it safer for her.
Make a crayon headboard using a section of regular fence with wider boards. You could cut the tops of the boards in the shape of a crayon tip and paint each board like a crayon, or just leave the top the way it is, and paint the part that isn't the tip of crayon a background color of your choice on all the boards!
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Mix and match items. Matchy matchy is not really necessary, and can sometimes be boring. By mixing it up a little when decorating a girl's bedroom, it makes the room more interesting and gives the opportunity to try new things one at a time.
Decorating a girl's bedroom is so much fun! Get her involved too! It's her room after all. You'll find all kinds of cute girl's furniture at places like RoomForKids Kid's Furniture and my all time favorite CompanyKids®
DIY Decorating A Girl Bedroom
You know all those inexpensive white accent pieces you can buy? Like a shelf with pegs, or the one with three little drawers in it? It seems everybody sells them. But maybe you don't want such a bright white, or you want a totally different look. If you want to re-do one, lightly sand it first, wipe off the dust, then use Kilz2 primer, let it dry a couple days, then paint with your semi-gloss color of choice. Then let that set a few days before you hang it up or use it. This makes sure your primer and paint have cured.
I decided to take the short lazy route, and didn't sand mine before I used primer (Bin1,2,3). I let it cure like the instructions said, and after I was done painting my design on it, my paint literally peeled right off! Yuckola! Next time I sanded and used the Kilz2. The Kilz2 worked better for me and it's on my list of favorites. I've used it on several projects, including the interior and exterior of my house!
Remember, get her involved in this decorating a girl bedroom project. She's the one who has to live in there. Something easy for her would be to let her decorate her furniture or walls with Wallies. In fact Wallies would be excellent to use on the white accent pieces mentioned above.
Company Kids has several types of wall decor, and some really cute storage pieces among other things that work perfectly for decorating a girl bedroom.
If you're looking for girl's bedding CompanyKids® and RoomForKids are my favorites for the younger ones. If your daughter is a little older, you can head on over to Shop Domestications
for some very nice bedding sets.
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