Kids bedroom's - where do I start?

[Olive]

im both girls rooms ive bought some cheap canvases and some nice material to cover them, i just use a staple gun, cheap and easy, the best thing is you can easily change the material as they get older and change likes etc.. (there hung on the wall)
im going to buy some wall decals too, but there more exxy

[Mum2SweetCs]

For DD's room i got a nice timber white bed frame, some nice matching timbre drawers

those removable stickers, some nice girly curtains, a rug, and $8 canvases from kmart. I used commando sticker things so that i dont have to drill holes in the wall.

PM me your email addy if you want, I can take pics tonight and show you.

[kawazuki]

a neautral base, so say a nice stoen colour.
white = dirty quickly =annpoying
we just did teh kids rooms with a stoen colour wall, then one colour featur wall. we chose green shades, so cody got dark green adn teh girls got this pale teal green.
then they have a timber beds and i just made romans, i wouldn't go lace as it gets dusty = asthma. and it dates easily
so if you want it looking mondern, maybe some good block out blinds with a nice material curtain over the top as decoration, non functional.

then get nice linen, always makes a room look good, and some fun painting for teh walls, or storage boxes the kids can show off fav toys, this will grow with them so def last 5 years.
if you go white boxes hanging on walls with boxes in them then added storage for lkittle toys colouring stuff
also i like a line of rope suspended against a wall with pegs then they can peg up their artworks from school and its easy to change..
anyquestions just ask
we haev just finished teh house here ready fro sale lol

[MrsFabuloso]

What about light shade, or lamps too. We want to put up some floating shelves in our kids rooms too for those special little things I want to display for them, but don't really want them playing with! In DD's room I got a beautiful little mirror in the shape of a heart with a flower boarder. She absolutely adores it! I am also going to get her some crystals and chimes to hang in her window. In DS's room I have made a cushioned area with some big pillows and little cushions for him, he loves it and I often find him sitting there or falling into the pillows, lol! I have gotten a cheapo rug for each of their rooms too, and then just some nice bedding.

[Salad]

Just subscribing as I am looking at doing the same thing

[Liviam]

What fabulous ideas!!! I absolutley love the string to hang up their artwork (I had no idea what I was going to do with it all). I'm going to go with neutral walls and decorate. I love that idea. I didn't think of the kids out growing wall colour. I'm getting their names cut in wood to hand on their doors.

I'm going to go to spotlight/lincraft to buy some canvases and material. This never occured to me. Oh I'm so excited!!! What kind of canvases do I buy? Am I looking for ones like the blank canvas board that artists use?? DS is going to be cars/transport because he got a track mat for his birthday. DD is probably going to be a flower/butterfly theme.

It's the curtains that are going to be hard. Both of their rooms get all day sun. So I'm thinking a thick block out roller blind in a neutral colour and then the decorative curtain strips down each side of a bright colour. Thinking pink/purple/yellow for DD and red/blue for DS. Do you think that these strips of material need to sunblock out too? Would a roller blind be warm enough in winter? They have verticals at the moment and they are just terrible.

[Olive]

i get the canveses from reget shop, go low etc.. as they are cheaper!

[Liviam]

Kawasuki with the non functional curtain material so you mean the full length of the window or a strip down each side?

Olive that was exactly what I was thinking. I saw some when I was there today. Their rooms are really quite small so I am loving these ideas.

Is there anything I need to avoid with small rooms that will make them look smaller?? Can I do anything to give the illusion of a bigger room??