How to decorate a child’s room in fairy theme
I promised my niece I would redecorate her room and have it finished by the end of summer. She wants a fairy theme room and I don’t know where to start from
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The first place to start is with your budget and the time you personally have available to dedicate to this. Redecorating can be as simple as painting the walls plus buying new bedding and curtains, or it can involve adding wallpaper borders along the top of the walls, installing huge vinyl printed murals, painting a mural yourself, hanging mobiles or other objects, lamps, furniture, replacing wall to wall carpeting, adding throw rungs, decorative pillows, even making or buying large decorative pieces.
Next, talk to her parents and ask what their boundaries are. I’ve painted rooms fire engine red (which is challenging to later paint over and some might object to), repainted wood furniture, and created dinosaur murals that stretched across walls. I’ve made original framed paintings, installed ceiling medallions and replaced the overhead light fixture with a chandelier, built box valences and headboards, knocked out walls and added them - including framed doors.
This includes your skill set or what you are willing to hire people to do. As someone with a background in set building and dressing for stage and film I can go completely bananas building functional or purely decorative items if it strikes my fancy and you are foolhardy enough to turn me loose without restrictions. I've turned an entire basement into a flagstone walled dungeon with torches on the walls, a mad scientist's lab, a guillotine for photos and a staircase with rock walls and stalactites just for a Halloween party!
Third, what are the color preferences of the child? Would they prefer pink and purple, blue and green, are they very specific and picky or flexible?
You can find quite a few references for ideas and it can be completely overwhelming. Knowing what you can eliminate because it is too expensive, difficult, time consuming or is just in the wrong color scheme can save you and the child from being frozen in indecision when faced with a cavalcade of choices.
This a fairy themed bedroom:
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Themed bedroom blog
But so are these!
Wood US blog
From Novocom
These require substantially different levels of effort.
Fouth, create a Pinterest page and drop images of anything that fits within your parameters on it. Check the prices of decorative items before adding them. Don’t include $95,000 genuine antique Tiffany lamps if you aren’t Jeff Bezos.
Use the image tab of search engines with “fairy themed bedroom”, “fairy room decor”, “fairy room” and other variations. Search on Pinterest itself, as others may have found more obscure pictures and might have already pinned them.
Now sit down and go through prescreened reference photos with your niece. Point out that you can’t use every single idea and some things may get in the way of each other. Have her identify her favorite things and make a list of them. Limit it to what you can realistically do in the time available, and pass your estimate because something will fall over and break, take longer to dry than you thought, something unplanned is certain to happen unless you are just replacing a bed spread and hanging a poster on the wall.
Finally, haul out your wallet and buy what you need, then put on your painting clothes and let the transformation begin!