Decorating For A Boy
March 7, 2010 by Forest Talbot
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Redecorating for a child who has outgrown the look that the room was once done is can be a very exciting time in not only your life but in your young mans life. You need to make sure that the style you decorate this room is will show the personality of your little guy. Have them be able to put in some input as far as what is bought to do the room in, color and accessory wise.
Of course, the project cannot start until a theme for the room has been selected. This may be the most difficult aspect of the entire effort. After all, the young man is getting a themed room. With that major decision out of the way, to him everything else is a cinch. Selecting a decorating theme may be easy if the young man already has very strong feelings about a particular subject. By now he has been exposed to cartoons, movies, videos, books, his friends’ opinions and the choice of a room theme may come easily.
If not, you may have to help him decide among a multitude of options. Whatever theme is selected, the marketplace stands ready to provide you with an impressive array of offerings that are theme related. Paint colors, bed coverings, wall coverings, rugs, lamps and bed lights, furniture, desks, etc. can all be themed and coordinated.
Once a decision has been made on the room theme, the rest of the project goes fast. If the theme chosen is Disney World, say, your son can be surrounded by elves and princes and princesses and Lion King and cartoon characters and on and on. The characters can be on his walls, on his bed, on his area rug and also on his ceiling. He can live with them and visit them as often as he likes.
Jungle themes are very easy you can get several objects that are animals you would find in the desert and place them on the walls. Also get a rug that has a jungle animal or theme on it.
With a theme like sports, his walls can be covered in college and professional player posters, his lamp can be a football, his rug can be a gridiron.
Race cars or dinosaurs are some other choices that a lot of young boys will pick for their theme. You can buy some great looking dinosaur pictures to put up on the wall and get many other accessories to make the room one that looks prehistoric.
A unique idea is to have your little guy paint on a wall, this will be their own addition to the room, and will surely bring in their personality. Plus it will be an excellent way to let out some of his creative juices. Or go and have a football field placed on the wall with a picture of your little guy running down the field. Either way it will add nicely to the room.
This room will be a great project for you and your little one to do together. Your son will feel great about adding to the project too.
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