Decorating For Your Teenager

By Marsha Wallis

If you have teenagers, you know that decorating their rooms can be fun but it can also be costly as their tastes seem to change from week to week. When you are decorating a room for your teenager, it is best not to use permanent products such as wallpaper or a certain pattern in wall to wall carpeting because their tastes alter so frequently. What is in style one minute, may be outdated and blah the next. When decorating the for your teenager, a far better option is to use removable such as area rugs, paint, duvet covers and inexpensive window treatments to decorate for your teenager.

Duvet covers can be purchased easily enough or you can even make them. It is best to use a duvet cover that is similar to a giant pillowcase for the comforter, than to keep changing the colors and styles of the bedclothes. This is true more of girls than boys. You can sew together a duvet made from two sheets and affix Velcro to fasten it together, slipping a white comforter in the cover and instantly changing the style of the room. This is easy and inexpensive to do. What is more important, it can be changed easily if the style suddenly becomes unpopular.

Inexpensive window treatments include blinds and curtains that can be found in home improvement stores as well as discount stores. These are the best option when it comes to covering the windows in his or her room and can be changed if the style changes. You can even make your own curtains if you are handy with a sewing machine.

Room color reflects personality. Most teenagers like either the very dark or the very bright, nothing in between. They most probably swing from one extremity to another. Using paint to color your teenager's room is a better choice, especially if you know that he'll be changing the color every three months, if you're lucky he waits that long. Wallpaper is a hassle to remove, whereas paint on the wall can be redone whenever a new choice of color sprouts up.

Accessorizing the room to make it look more trendy need only some few essential items, one of which are area rugs. They come in various colors, shapes, sizes and designs that your teen will surely find something he likes. An area rug can also add color and personality to the room. Similar to a trouble-free repainting of the wall, an area rug can also be replaced without much effort. If your teen decides to let go of a geometric patterned rug and go wild with animal prints, a mere difference in rug seals the deal.

Decorating the room of your teenager can be fun, but you just do not want to put a lot of money into the project. By using less permanent decorating ideas such as duvet covers, paint, area rugs and inexpensive window treatments, you can give the room the dcor that you are seeking for a lot less money than you can imagine. If you want to make your teenager happy, take these decorating tips and help them decorate their room the room of their dreams with the style and colors that they like. For now. - 30198

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