On Jul 1, 7:30=A0pm, "xkatx" <xk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "meatnub" <meat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 1, 11:32 am, Clisby <clis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > meatnub wrote:
> > > Since our son has been cosleeping with us, we haven't done anything
> > > with his room. He doesn't even go in there except to maybe pull a
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> > > or toy out of a box (he spends most time downstairs, outside, etc.)
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> > > So we're thinking of moving him to his own bed in his room
> > > (eventually) and would like to decorate it.
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> > > I'd love to paint it like the jungle, under the sea, a castle.. but
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> > > can't paint. I mean, we can, i can draw a little, but it would be
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> > > amateurish and probably crappy looking. And then if he grows bored
of
> > > it? or doesn't like it? lol
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> > > So we could just do plain paint.. blue.. or some color.. maybe half
> > > color up top and different below but there's painting...
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> > > wallpaper...
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> > > murals, but they are expensive.
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> > > just wondering what other ideas are out there or are painting and
> > > wallpaper pretty much tried and true?
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> > What about plain paint in a color you think he'll like and a series of
> > big framed posters on the walls? It would be easy to change the
> > posters out for another theme later.
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> Hm, I like that idea, thanks Clisby!
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> Another idea - what about using a wallpaper border like safari
themed:http=
://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Pal%2592s-Border%252d-Oak%25285-yards%25...
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> and the wall area below the wallpaper border gets painted nice green
> to match grass in border (above border just an example) and wall above
> blue to match the sky ?
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> is this something people do?
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> then maybe hang a monkey or bird from the ceiling or something...
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> glow in the dark planets maybe... or stickers of planets and stars...
> on the ceiling.....
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> good ideas too?
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> When I was younger, my parents (well, mostly my mom) redid our rooms...
I
> remember picking out a border wall paper - it was the simple peel and
stic=
k
> wall border. =A0I picked a cow theme as I loved cows. =A0I helped my mom
p=
aint
> black on the bottom and we kept it simple and white on the top. =A0Then
th=
e
> border went around the middle, where the line was between the black and
> white bottom and top. =A0When I moved out years later, my brother took
ove=
r
> that room. =A0They ripped that wall border (it was simple and just
peeled =
like
> a big, easy sticker) off the wall and my brother decided on a
space-themed=
> border of the stickup kind.
> Maybe that is an idea... Half and half for the walls and then a sticky
> border in the middle. =A0If you keep to fairly simple colors, it
shouldn't=
be
> too hard to redo the border as the child grows and changes their minds
> (right now, teddy bears might be cute, but in a few years it could be
> jungle. =A0A few years after that it could be race cars or ninjas or
socce=
r or
> anything, really)
> What I did with what was originally DD's room was painted each wall,
> alternating between a light lilac color and a light pink - so one wall
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> all purple, the next all pink and so on. =A0I painted the trim a simple
wh=
ite
> and then put up those Pooh Bear wall stickers (all she loves since about
1=
2
> months is Pooh) and it looks fine. =A0Again, these stickers aren't
permane=
nt
> and easily come off by peeling them off and don't take the paint off -
eve=
n
> though I had used cheap, free paint to paint DD's walls.
> I, personally, wouldn't be bothered with something extravagant. =A0I
also
> wouldn't do permanant wall paper or wild colors that couldn't easily be
> matched with various stages - remember, trains or Care Bears won't
always =
be
> 'cool' as a child grows older. =A0Also, if castles are in right now,
they
> could be seen as "baby-ish" in 5 years. =A0I am artistic, and I'm
confiden=
t I
> could fairly easily do something fairly extravagant (like actually paint
> Pooh and his friends on the walls) but something like that just isn't
wort=
h
> my effort - somewhat time consuming and the thing that keeps popping
into =
my
> head is that I know DD won't enjoy Pooh forever. =A0DS's room, he's
alread=
y
> grown out of the Clifford the Dog border that we originally put up, but
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s
> room is 2 different shades of blue that I'm sure I could easily match
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yeah that's an idea we were considering - easy sticky border with
colors above and below the border. not quite sure if we want to do
that.. but if we do, it's easy to repaint and replace the border.
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