How to Accessorize a Child's Room

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Accessorize your child's room with age-appropriate furnishings. Use toys in creative ways and decorate so that maintenance is easy.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Bedspreads
Cup Hooks
Curtains
Display Shelves And Stands
Night Lights
Shelving
Throw Pillows
Area Bulletin Boards
Bulletin Boards
Monofilament Line
Toy Chests

Step1

Ask older children how they want the room and accommodate them as much as possible. A 12-year-old girl, for instance, may tell you to ditch the dolls; a 7-year-old boy may want his toy cars lined up on a bookshelf.

Step2

Add storage for treasures such as action figures, model planes, dolls and stuffed toys. Hang a shelf above a window or a closet door for seldom-used items; other options are bookshelves or wire shelving for closets.

Step3

Provide a display area such as a bulletin board for displaying children's artwork and souvenirs such as photos, birthday cards and concert tickets.

Step4

Match the bedspread or throw pillows to the window treatment for a coordinated look.

Step5

Avoid trendy motifs such as the newest animated movie character for the bedspread, curtains and wallpaper. These looks quickly become dated and are expensive to replace.

Step6

Consider a night light to help navigation toward the bathroom or to reassure a young child who's afraid of the dark.

Step7

Hang lightweight, fragile items such as model planes and kit dinosaurs from filament line attached to a ceiling-mounted cup hook. This keeps the items out of harm's way but within view.

Step8

Display a photo of your child in his or her room; it's a self-esteem builder.

Tips & Warnings

Never leave items with small parts accessible in the room of a young child. They pose a choking hazard.

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on 11/22/2005 When we decided to decorate my 3 year old son's room, we didn't want to use a trendy cartoon character that would go out of style in a year. Instead, we got a reversible red and blue comforter, a bright green blanket, orange sheets, bright yellow dust ruffle and bright blue curtains. My husband spray painted each of the five blades on his ceiling fan a different color (red, orange, yellow, green and blue). Then we bought some colorful prints from art.com that had a plane, a train engine, a car, a helicopter, a boat, and a spaceship. We placed them in frames we had spray painted with the same bright colors as the ceiling fan. We bought a stoplight style lamp to accessorize. Now, my son has a terrific room full of bright colors that he just loves. If he gets tired of the transportation theme, he can still have the bright colors. The colors will go with almost any other theme he chooses.

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on 11/22/2005 If your child is afraid of the dark, consider buying and installing a night light. It will help reduce the fear and nightmares your child might have.

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on 11/22/2005 After we decorated my son's room, and painted his ceiling fan blades in bright colors, my daughter wanted her fan blades painted pastel colors to go with her Disney Princess theme room. The problem was, we couldn't find many pastel spray paint colors. We solved that problem by getting some Disney Princess wall clings (that you can easily put on and take off) and we put one princess face on each blade with a few of the other clings. This was a quick, easy and inexpensive solution. We often get questioned about that fan. My daughter calls them the "Dizzy Princesses." :-)

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