Home Decor Blog

Any little girl will love Fairy bedroom décor. She will be able to create her own magical world in which to pursue her hopes and dreams. Making her room into fairyland is easy because there are so many fantastic accessories available both in stores and online. You’ll be able to find bedding, pillows, shams, wallpaper, lamps, and a plethora of other items that will turn her room into a mystical, private haven. Many of the items you can buy create specific theme rooms, such as an English bedtime story room or a Tinkerbell room.

Close your eyes and imagine a world of fantasy, a world where magical things happen every day, and anyone can become the princess or fairy they dream of being. Dreams become realities there, and imagination goes a long way towards creating a magical world your daughter can call her own or share with you. With a pinch of pixie dust and some whimsical furnishings, her room can become her ivory tower of pure delight.

To start with you need to have an idea of what your daughter wants if she’s old enough to tell you her ideas. It’s no good just to create the room of your dreams when she’s the one who’s going to live in it. Help her decide on a solid wall color, and paint the walls. If her room has hardwood floors, you’ll be able to add a colorful rug that matches the walls or else a patterned one that introduces a light-hearted mix of colors.

After the painting is done, it’s time to find the magical trimmings that will bring the room to life. With a little effort, you’ll be amazed at what you can find. There are wallpaper borders, clocks, pictures, decorative shelves, and a multitude of different figurines that sit, hang, and even serve functional purposes. Try revving up the walls with a coat of clear paint containing glitter. Soon the room will sparkle with a magical aura. Or you might try painting climbing plants on the walls that wind their way up to the ceiling. Make sure to hide plenty of tiny fairies in the vines!

When deciding on fabrics, remember that fairies are light, fanciful creatures, and select only thin, delicate materials. One special effect you can achieve with fabric is to create an airy curtain that will encompass the bed and send your little one on her own magic carpet ride each time she climbs in for a rest. Start with sparkly, fairy-themed fabrics. Drape them over the existing curtains and from the ceiling to make a secret place for all of her dreaming.

If you have a large budget, you can even purchase entire groups of sparkling fairy furniture. For a fairy effect at a lower price, you can purchase furniture in soft pastels and accent it with fluffy, whimsical pillows and throws. If the bed is varnished wood and you don’t want to cover the original finish with paint, you can buy easily-removable accessories to stick on the bed. You’ll be able to achieve the same kind of magic without the permanence.

To create delightful lighting effects, start with lamps and fixtures in basic gold, silver, and white. Let your creativity run wild as you create magical lampshades using gauzy fabrics, faux gems, feathers, glitter glue and anything else you can dream up.

It doesn’t matter if your daughter is a baby or a teenager, you can decorate her room as fairyland using age-appropriate accessories. The older your daughter is, the more she’ll be able to contribute to the decoration of her room.

In all aspects of life teenagers are starting to express themselves and assert their identity. That is why if they liked the music you played when they were 10 years old, they will very quickly consign that to the box marked “un-cool”. The same is true of household decor or interior designs.

Fortunately it is relatively easy to work with your teen to give them much of what they want without too much financial of other sacrifice.

In most homes we are talking about the teenager(s) bedroom though if you have space a teen den or games room in the loft or over the garage is a cool idea.

A few design tips:

Colour and style

This is easy to deal with and also can make you appear to be a pretty cool parent. Work with your teenager to choose the colour scheme, even if you think you would never, ever, use black, purple or psychedelic patterns on the wall or ceiling.

For practicality use standard emulsion paints that are easy to retouch or change as tastes change. Walls and ceilings will soon be covered in posters and so on, but as long as the wall construction is sound you do not need to worry about sticky tape or Blu-tack (Fun-Tak) on the walls. Picture tacks and drawing pins are not the end of the world - just impose some adult rules about safety in relation to electric wiring and plumbing.

If graffiti is a design idea why not paint one wall in special black-board (chalk-board) paint?

Storage and furniture

You will probably want to work with what you already have in the interest of economy. But remember a growing teen will need a bigger stronger bed, which always raises the possibly embarrassing issue of whether it should be a double bed. Likewise bigger and more clothing calls for a taller wardrobe.

What ever you do make sure there is plenty of storage space and hooks on door backs. It will not prevent the sedimentary accumulation of clothing and detritus on the floor but at least there will be no lack-of-space excuse.

Function

If you can separate function, DO SO! If you can separate play from study then you will have visibility (if not control) of your teen’s time management. In an ideal environment split sleep, study and play if possible. You may say that there is insufficient space but you could cheaply install a desk, a light and a computer under a staircase.

You might be able to clear out all the junk that usually lingers in a garage; old tins of paint, golf clubs and so on often mean there is no room for the car. With a bit of thought a corner of the garage could be turned into a teen den. Put down some end-of roll carpet, a second hand club sofa and an armchair, a book shelf, some anglepoise lamps or spot lights and a mp3 docking station plus hi-fi amplifier. A quilt or throw and an electric fan heater work well for colder nights. Your teen can chill out here with friends and have their own private space. And it will not matter too much whether it is neat and tidy in adult eyes.

Conclusion

Finally, interior design with a teen in mind is one area where you do not need to feel that you are making a concession or sacrifice to a rebellious or angst-ridden offspring. In fact you may not get the appreciation you deserve for your efforts until your teen is ready to leave home for college or the big bad world. The acid test then is to see if they still want to come back to stay in the room they grew up in (and to eat good old fashioned home cooking!).