Decorating bedroom for a 10 yr old girl... help! Posted: 02-07-08 16:43pm
Ok this is quickly becoming a nightmare.
We live in an old (built 1900) Victorian.
I hate Victorians and will never buy
another one. It looks gorgeous from the
outside, but inside it is lots of rooms
all closed off from one another.
It doesn't "flow".
Downstairs there is a kitchen, a room that
kids play video games in (I don't know
what to call it, lol!), a dining room, a
family room (where the tv is, etc.), and a
formal living room.
The second floor is similar to the first,
and it used to be a 2 family. (My aunt
lives on the third floor.) There are 3
bedrooms and half bedroom, and an oddly
shaped, large kitchen. The kitchen is
what we are making over into our DD's
room, because of the size, and because we
don't use it as a kitchen. We took the
fridge out long ago, and I just had our
contractor box in the stove, counters, and
stove/oven so they are hidden behind wood.
(I might want to make it a 2 family again
in the future, so I didn't want to rip
everything out.)
Here is the problem. My DD cannot decide
on a color scheme. I let her pick out her
comforter set first to establish the
colors, and it has pink, white, and a tiny
bit of black. She was going to have the
walls painted a very light pink, and then
have a pink wall to wall carpet installed.
Today she announces she hates pink, it is
her worst color. ARGGHH!!!
I told her to make sure what she wants,
because a comforter is a small mistake,
but there is no going back once the walls
are painted and the rug is in.
How can I let her see views of different
furnished bedrooms so she can see what
different color schemes look like?
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Bridget
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Posted: 02-07-08 16:55pm
ratemyspace.hgtv.com is a fun website.
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Katrinadoodle
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Posted: 02-07-08 16:56pm
have her pick a color and google "[color]
rooms"?
Or go to the grocery store and get some
home living-type magazines
OR get the JCPenny's catalog and flip
through the bedroom sections.
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acruz
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Posted: 02-07-08 17:07pm
Oh, yeah! JC Penny's has GREAT room ideas!
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Posted: 02-07-08 17:10pm
pbteen.com (Pottery Barn Teen, in case you
didn't know. I didn't! I thought it was
"peanut butter!!") has a great selection
of stuff AND on the website it shows
sample rooms.
ugh pepto bismal room a big no no yuk in
the 10 yr old community
my daughters room ( she is 10 ) is 2 walls
silver berry (across from each other) and
2 walls silver blueberry both light but
very neet colors that they can work with
as they grow lol shai picked slv brry and
des picked slvr blu brry and both decid3ed
to have 2 walls each diff color from the
other lol and they go together perfectly
menards is were we p/u the paint good
luck 10 yr olds are finiky arent they
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Posted: 02-07-08 19:34pm
CaNdItAs CrAzY LaNd
wrote:
ugh pepto bismal room a big
no no yuk in the 10 yr old community
my daughters room ( she is 10 ) is 2 walls
silver berry (across from each other) and
2 walls silver blueberry both light but
very neet colors that they can work with
as they grow lol shai picked slv brry and
des picked slvr blu brry and both decid3ed
to have 2 walls each diff color from the
other lol and they go together perfectly
menards is were we p/u the paint good
luck 10 yr olds are finiky arent
they
what?
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Mommy35
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Posted: 02-07-08 19:37pm
take her to Home Depot or Lowes. They
have all kinds of colors and accents that
match and compliment eachother. If she
has a color of a stuffed toy or something
that she likes you can scan it and get
shades that will match. It's really neat.
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Verizon-y
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Posted: 02-07-08 19:54pm
CaNdItAs CrAzY LaNd
wrote:
ugh pepto bismal room a big
no no yuk in the 10 yr old community
my daughters room ( she is 10 ) is 2 walls
silver berry (across from each other) and
2 walls silver blueberry both light but
very neet colors that they can work with
as they grow lol shai picked slv brry and
des picked slvr blu brry and both decid3ed
to have 2 walls each diff color from the
other lol and they go together perfectly
menards is were we p/u the paint good
luck 10 yr olds are finiky arent
they
Yes, very finicky, lol! What color is
silver berry?
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Verizon-y
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Posted: 02-07-08 19:55pm
Mommy35
wrote:
take her to Home Depot or
Lowes. They have all kinds of colors and
accents that match and compliment
eachother. If she has a color of a
stuffed toy or something that she likes
you can scan it and get shades that will
match. It's really
neat.
picture eeyore the 2 colors he is...well
kinda like that but prettier
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Verizon-y
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Posted: 02-07-08 22:46pm
Wow, so actually silverish, neat.
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young Girl
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Posted: 02-09-08 00:33am
hey future has she decided yet what color
she would like?
you know i always liked baby blue and
brown. lol maybe im just wierd though
or like a pale green. pastel colors are
usually great.
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