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Zoe
I am a 13yr old girl and I want to make my bedroom feel like a place I actually want to hang out in because at the moment it is sort of boring. The problem is I can't paint the walls and I only have a budget of about $60- $70. I want to make it indie or vintage looking. If anyone has any tips on how I could do this it would be greatly appreciated!!!
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The best place to go will probably be to resale shops like Good Will. Check in your phone book. And yard sales, check your newspapers or look out on Friday and Saturdays on the corners. This will stretch your dollar. To get it right, go slow, and don't be anxious to buy all you need right away.
Even if you can not paint your walls, there are things you can do with your walls.
1. hang sheets, or curtains on them by using small nails to tack around the top of the walls. Sheets and curtains can be found at both of above. If you have some ideas on the colors and designs you like, you could get white sheets and then, buy some Ritz dye, at the grocery store, and go in the back yard with your designs that you made on paper, and paint them onto the sheets. Don't get discouraged. Usually once you get all the white out of the sheet, or paper, what ever you are drawing on it will look better. Decide wether you want the sheets flat or to be ruffled along the wall.
2. You can use the same material to cover your lamp shades. If you do not have lamps, you can get them cheap at the above sources as well, and indirect lighting softens the room. You could even use a stencil and draw that on the lampshade or the sheets. Blue guns are great for crafts, and don't cost much, go to a sewing store for these.
3. You might be able to find discontinued wall paper at a paint store. You can staple this to the walls, and it should only leave very small punctures. Even if you can't find all one pattern you can mix patterns or only do one wall. It really brightens up a room.
4. If your room is small, be on the look out for mirrors. You can paint all the frames a certain color or gold, silver, or pewter for a retro look. You can even make a wall full of mirrors. Often putting them opposite the light source (window) in your room can increase the light and the sense of the outdoors in your room.
5. You could drape one of the sheets above your bed like a canopy, by stapling it to the ceiling. Have someone help you, as one staple tends to pull out while you are trying to get the next in. Someone holding it in place until you get enough staples to hold it where you want helps.
6. You will need a yard stick or tape measure, a hammer, stapler, some small thin nails with large round heads. Ikea, tends to have cheap good tool kits all together for about 10$. Put your name on the box and the tools so they don't walk off.
7. Using the same materials and designs make a few pillows for your bed or chair. The trick is to repeat a few colors though out your room. This ties the room together.
8. If you see some pictures for the wall that you like cheap enough, pictures on the wall often really help make the room. Even if you can only find frames, draw the pictures yourself...remember as long as you fill in ALL the white spaces, almost anything you draw will look good.
Good luck, x
The best place to go will probably be to resale shops like Good Will. Check in your phone book. And yard sales, check your newspapers or look out on Friday and Saturdays on the corners. This will stretch your dollar. To get it right, go slow, and don't be anxious to buy all you need right away.
Even if you can not paint your walls, there are things you can do with your walls.
1. hang sheets, or curtains on them by using small nails to tack around the top of the walls. Sheets and curtains can be found at both of above. If you have some ideas on the colors and designs you like, you could get white sheets and then, buy some Ritz dye, at the grocery store, and go in the back yard with your designs that you made on paper, and paint them onto the sheets. Don't get discouraged. Usually once you get all the white out of the sheet, or paper, what ever you are drawing on it will look better. Decide wether you want the sheets flat or to be ruffled along the wall.
2. You can use the same material to cover your lamp shades. If you do not have lamps, you can get them cheap at the above sources as well, and indirect lighting softens the room. You could even use a stencil and draw that on the lampshade or the sheets. Blue guns are great for crafts, and don't cost much, go to a sewing store for these.
3. You might be able to find discontinued wall paper at a paint store. You can staple this to the walls, and it should only leave very small punctures. Even if you can't find all one pattern you can mix patterns or only do one wall. It really brightens up a room.
4. If your room is small, be on the look out for mirrors. You can paint all the frames a certain color or gold, silver, or pewter for a retro look. You can even make a wall full of mirrors. Often putting them opposite the light source (window) in your room can increase the light and the sense of the outdoors in your room.
5. You could drape one of the sheets above your bed like a canopy, by stapling it to the ceiling. Have someone help you, as one staple tends to pull out while you are trying to get the next in. Someone holding it in place until you get enough staples to hold it where you want helps.
6. You will need a yard stick or tape measure, a hammer, stapler, some small thin nails with large round heads. Ikea, tends to have cheap good tool kits all together for about 10$. Put your name on the box and the tools so they don't walk off.
7. Using the same materials and designs make a few pillows for your bed or chair. The trick is to repeat a few colors though out your room. This ties the room together.
8. If you see some pictures for the wall that you like cheap enough, pictures on the wall often really help make the room. Even if you can only find frames, draw the pictures yourself...remember as long as you fill in ALL the white spaces, almost anything you draw will look good.
Good luck, x
Does anyone have any pictures or ideas for a techno-style bedroom?
adagio_75
My 15 year old sister-in-law wants to change her bedroom design from a mostly leopard print theme to techno. I want to help her but I really don't know what techno design for a room would look like. She doesn't have alot of money to completely refurnish the room so items like her leopard print area rug, leopard print lamp shades and picture frames will have to be used. Any ideas or pictures would be great.
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When I think of a techno style bedroom I think of lots of fun bright cheery colors with nice white sleek backdrop. For a techno styled bedroom; you could do a modern look. Go for clean, straight lines if possible. I would go for a white or neutral backdrop with pops of color. If some new furniture pieces are in your budget look for white furniture (bed frame, dresser, desk, nightstand)or you can repurpose old furniture and paint it white. For accessories look for bright colors like orange (for a lamp; can’t afford a new lamp you can take an existing lamp, sand it down and spray paint it in an high gloss orange (or whatever bright colors she likes), yellow (picture frames, pillows), and green (pillows, vases for flowers, etc.). If she doesn’t like those colors, you can do any color combo that she will like. You can find a cheap/good looking area rug @ Wal-mart in white, but if you don’t look for white (or another color) bath rugs and connect them together with carpet tape to make a large area rug. You can also change out the lamp shades for a cheap cost or you can cover existing lamp shades with fabric to match the new room décor. For the walls you can blow up her favorite DJ album covers and frame them; or you can get vector silhouettes of DJ’s like this : http://garcya.us/blog/free-dj-vector-graphic-art/ or http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2286211/2/istockphoto_2286211_dj_at_turntable or http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4306917/2/istockphoto_4306917_dj_silhouette.jpg or http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/iconsnew/bittbox.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5671904/2/istockphoto_5671904_beach_party.jpg or images like these and have them blown up to put them on the walls. You can also blow up varying silhouettes of dancers and put them on the wall (http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5753237/2/istockphoto_5753237_spring_girl.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5768186/2/istockphoto_5768186_just_wanna_have ). Also music notes and headphones (http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5481959/2/istockphoto_5481959_grunge_headphones.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5802696/2/istockphoto_5802696_headphones.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5881226/2/istockphoto_5881226_hand_drawn_musik_retro.jpg would be a cool option also. For bedding you can do something simple like white with a bright colored throw and pillows or bright colored bedding with white pillows and one bright colored accent pillow. Also for bedding you can do bedding in a fun solid color and do an image transfer of her favorite DJ or techno image. Hope this gives you a few ideas, good luck :)
When I think of a techno style bedroom I think of lots of fun bright cheery colors with nice white sleek backdrop. For a techno styled bedroom; you could do a modern look. Go for clean, straight lines if possible. I would go for a white or neutral backdrop with pops of color. If some new furniture pieces are in your budget look for white furniture (bed frame, dresser, desk, nightstand)or you can repurpose old furniture and paint it white. For accessories look for bright colors like orange (for a lamp; can’t afford a new lamp you can take an existing lamp, sand it down and spray paint it in an high gloss orange (or whatever bright colors she likes), yellow (picture frames, pillows), and green (pillows, vases for flowers, etc.). If she doesn’t like those colors, you can do any color combo that she will like. You can find a cheap/good looking area rug @ Wal-mart in white, but if you don’t look for white (or another color) bath rugs and connect them together with carpet tape to make a large area rug. You can also change out the lamp shades for a cheap cost or you can cover existing lamp shades with fabric to match the new room décor. For the walls you can blow up her favorite DJ album covers and frame them; or you can get vector silhouettes of DJ’s like this : http://garcya.us/blog/free-dj-vector-graphic-art/ or http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2286211/2/istockphoto_2286211_dj_at_turntable or http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4306917/2/istockphoto_4306917_dj_silhouette.jpg or http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/iconsnew/bittbox.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5671904/2/istockphoto_5671904_beach_party.jpg or images like these and have them blown up to put them on the walls. You can also blow up varying silhouettes of dancers and put them on the wall (http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5753237/2/istockphoto_5753237_spring_girl.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5768186/2/istockphoto_5768186_just_wanna_have ). Also music notes and headphones (http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5481959/2/istockphoto_5481959_grunge_headphones.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5802696/2/istockphoto_5802696_headphones.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5881226/2/istockphoto_5881226_hand_drawn_musik_retro.jpg would be a cool option also. For bedding you can do something simple like white with a bright colored throw and pillows or bright colored bedding with white pillows and one bright colored accent pillow. Also for bedding you can do bedding in a fun solid color and do an image transfer of her favorite DJ or techno image. Hope this gives you a few ideas, good luck :)
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