On Jul 2, 1:00=C2=A0pm, Chris <chrissype...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 1, 11:27=EF=BF=BDam, meatnub <meat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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 book
> > 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 we
> > can't paint. I mean, we can, i can draw a little, but it would be very
> > 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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> Borders and paint are as far as I will go due to the nastiness of
> wallpaper removal. lol. You can actually create a really nice themed
> room just with the beds, comfortors, curtains, and accessories you
> place in the room. Places like paint stores, such as Home Depot or
> Lowe's, have decorating books you can glance through and they have
> some really awesome kid room ideas in them.
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> We are currently working on a train-themed room for our 2 1/2-y/o, as
> he adores trains. I've so far bought a train luggage rack and a train-
> station-style clock to hang in the corner. He already has a gazillion
> trains. At this age, the age-appropriate decor can be outgrown by the
> time they are in kindergarten though too. I'm contemplating what to
> put on the walls still. There is a really neat mural he would love,
> but I dunno about how it goes on and it is expensive. I've also tossed
> around painting his room to look like the inside of the Polar Express
> passenger car too - not sure if all of that effort would be worth a
> few years, but I do love to see them thrilled and happy about "their"
> spaces.
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> My oldest currently has an army plane themed room with the photo/plane
> border in the center, below that painted army green, above that
> painted khaki (sp?). He has a plane-themed duvet cover and blue
> camouflage bedskirt and sheets because the border has a blue border.
> We bought plane-themed pics and statue-of-liberty with some red
> throughout to bring out the red decals on some of those planes on the
> border. We bought a huge wooden plane propeller that is hung on the
> wall as well - about 6' in length. I also went to an army surplus
> store and bought some of that camouflaging netting they place over
> things to hide things from aerial view and made them curtains and
> bought a pair of silver plane-shaped tiebacks from Pottery Barn to
> hang them.
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> My daughter's room was initially our nursery and I used the Woolie
> (sp?) to paint combination colors in there that turned out to match
> her new theme so I only changed the border in her room. She has
> flowers, butterflies, and dragonflies, cute bugs, as her theme. I
> bought canvas pictures and created the art in there myself. I bought
> some bug-shaped art figures that were meant to hang themselves and
> glued them onto the canvas after painting a base them for each. I also
> bought some clay and made some shapes myself that I painted and glued
> on also. I also bought some pieces from a store made out of metal or
> brown cast iron of some sort - they looked rusty and looked like they
> were probalby meant to be outdoors, but they went with our theme, so I
> bought them and bought about 6 colors of spray paint. I spray painted
> them with all 6 colors to match the room. You can find all sorts of
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I found out that murals are nothing but the picture turned into panels
of wallpaper. you get like 6 or 8 panels, and have to apply paste and
the whole 9. forget that! especially for a child who's tastes will
change every few years.
you are right - as far as decorating without wallpaper/painting. and
accessorizing. that's what we're thinking of doing right now.
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