How to Cheaply Decorate a Kid's Room
Your growing child's interests and decorating style are constantly changing. Instead of spending hundreds or thousands of dollars updating your child's bedroom decor annually, learn how to decorate your child's bedroom on a tight budget. Keep the redecorating project under $100 by doing the project yourself using budget-friendly decorating tips. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Paint with primer
- Paintbrush
- Paint tray
- Painters tape
- Spray paint
- Fabric
- Sewing machine
- Needles
- Thread
- Safety pins
- Old T-shirts
- Pillow stuffing
- Picture frames
- Acrylic paint
- Poster board
- Oil paint
- Watercolor paint
- Canvas
- Storage baskets
Instructions
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Give your kid's bedroom a complete makeover with a simple and inexpensive paint job. Purchase all the painting supplies you need -- paint and primer, paintbrush and paint tray -- for under $50, and transform a boring bedroom into a spaceship cockpit or fairytale castle. Use painting stencils or computer print outs to paint immaculate images, murals and shapes on the bedroom's walls.
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Paint bedroom furniture to complement the bedroom's new paint job. This is a great decorating project for a furniture set that doesn't match. Paint furniture a solid color or use multiple colors to paint furniture in designs that harmonize with the surrounding wall colors. Remember to use paints appropriate for the furniture materials and rely on spray paint for better coverage on vertical surfaces such as table legs and bedposts.
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Customize a bedspread and pillow shams to dress up your child's bed. Use surplus fabric from your crafting collection or purchase material on sale at your favorite craft store. Hand sew the items, or put your sewing machine to use, using a pattern to create the desired styles.
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Sew throw pillows to place on your child's bed and any seating in the bedroom. Make pillow covers from your child's old school and club T-shirts to create decorative keepsakes. Simply cut off the sleeves of the shirt to create a tube of material, turn the material inside out and sew the open ends together. Leave a fist-sized hole in one side to turn the pillow inside out and stuff the pillow with stuffing available for under $5 at your local craft store. After stuffing, pinch the remaining material together and sew a straight stitch to close the pillowcase.
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Create decorative wall art for your child's bedroom by framing images from old book jackets, calendars and computer printouts. You may also paint artwork onto poster board with acrylic paint or paint decorative wall art on canvas with watercolor or oil paint if those materials are within your decorating budget.
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Hide clutter by placing large, decorative storage baskets under your child's bed and on shelves in the room. These baskets can hold clothes, shoes, art supplies and toys.
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Tips & Warnings
Remove all furniture and toys from the room before painting. Protect carpeting and fixed furniture with old bed sheets or plastic sheeting.
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