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Bedroom Decorating Ideas

How to decorate a bedroom with modern coastal or modern cottage home decorating style. Before and afters, decorating tips and ideas, and inspirational rooms.

Best wallpaper for creating warmth. (Hands down.)

Best wallpaper for creating warmth. (Hands down.)

Bonjour friends! Well, if you’ve opened a decorating magazine in the past year, you’ve certainly noticed that graphic wallpaper is all the rage. Despite my past wallpaper aversion (created by our first fixer upper), I’ve been so wooed by these new wallpapers that I even decided to create a wallpaper accent in our master bedroom which I shared awhile back. (Picture posted below.) I absolutely love the visual interest and style statement that geometric wallpaper like this makes, but the best wallpaper for creating warmth doesn’t come in a bold pattern. READ MORE

 

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Wallpaper Accent Wall in the Bedroom: Reveal

Wallpaper Accent Wall in the Bedroom: Reveal

Did you catch my last post about Wallpaper Aversion Disorder?  Those of us who’ve had the pleasure of removing decades of wallpaper typically swear the stuff off.  After all, what goes up must (eventually) come down.  Decor trends, like everything else, are cyclical.  And once you’ve stripped wallpaper, you can never go back. It’s a fool me once, kind of a deal. Well, at least that was my theory…READ MORE

 

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Room Makeover: Twin Boy Nursery to Toddler Room (without changing everything!)

Room Makeover: Twin Boy Nursery to Toddler Room (without changing everything!)

Let’s face it:  We spend a lot of time (and money) decorating babies’ nurseries for the amount of time they’ll use it!  Funny isn’t it? When you’re pregnant, it seems like ‘The Nursery’ is going to be a permanent thing.  Every little detail is planned out with the precision of shuttle launch, and we easily justify dropping more cash on it than our own bedrooms  (“because they’ll only be a baby once” :-))

But time flies, and within just a couple of years, Mr. Monkeypants is climbing out the crib that you just put together (or so it seems) and he now wants a Lightning McQueen bed, and the whole room needs re-thinking.  I learned this lesson on my first child (now 8).  So when the time came to decorate our twin boys’ nursery just over 3 years ago, I tried to choose nursery decor that would work well in a toddler room too.  It just seemed like such a waste to have to start from scratch again within 2 years.

Nursery to Toddler Room Decor

 

Well, recently, the time came when we could no longer keep the boys in their cribs. When Noah greeted me one morning holding a large bolt to Jack’s crib, I figured that it was probably time ;-).

First things first.  I had to do something about that chocolate wall!  OMG, what a mess. You can’t even imagine. I swear some nights they’d throw their bottles at the wall just to see who could splat more milk.  But I was still much too sentimental about that large ‘elephants’ wall quote (which I’ve  talked about here a few times, most recently in the post Elephants, spiders and the ’80s) to paint over it yet.  So, instead, I decided to re-paint only the part of the wall that was the messiest with large horizontal aqua and white stripes.  This gave the room a fun punch of new color, but allowed me to salvage the wall quote.

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