Room Decorating Ideas for Girls


"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous." - Coco Chanel.

Let's face it! Girls innately fit both the above bills. It becomes extremely important therefore, that the room decor for girls should naturally ooze sophistication and functionality at the same time. Girls room decorations should definitely be extensions of their personalities, even if it breaks set conventions and norms. So, pre-condition your mind with some of the tips below, as you explore room decorating ideas for girls, further.

Room Decorating Tips for Girls

"Giggles and curls, ribbons and bow,
they're so adorable, from their head to their toes
" Anonymous.
The perfect picture of a doll, isn't it? However, what if your girl is all about gym gear, black nail paint and football type? But obviously, concentrate on complimenting her character. Pink may be a pretty and a 'girly' color, but she might not like it. So, just open your mind to other room painting ideas for girls. Allow her to decorate her space. Let her paint it azure if she is fond of the sea. You have the rest of the house to impose your likings upon. Try to come up with interesting color combination in tandem with your daughter's tastes. If you feel that painting her entire room red would be too much, and yet your girl is insistent upon getting the room done up in that color, convince her to get at least one wall done in white or some other soothing color. This will also give the room a colorful twist and maintain the visual equilibrium. Also, placing a huge photograph of your girl on top of the bed will help her to obtain that 'my domain' feeling. This will aid her to identify her space faster, as transition is often very difficult to accept for girls.

"Experimentation is an active science." Claude Bernard.
How else do you expect her to stand out in the crowd! Understand that, for a girl, her room is her place of pride. She should be able to show it off to her friends. Let it be her den. So, if she suggests to have her palm-prints on the wall, do not shriek! Instead find a creative way to incorporate it. For instance, place wooden photo frames on top of the prints. Personalized and cool! So, creative thinking is the goal here. Put up a whiteboard and a soft board for your girl to display quotes, photographs, paintings, posters and whatever else catches her fancy. Let her be the queen of the castle, and choose whatever she wants for the room, pertaining to you budget of course.

"A little dirt never hurt." Anonymous.
Yes. Young and active girls of today do get dirty with their hectic outdoor schedule. Naturally, you shall have to do all the cleaning up. So try not to clutter her room with unnecessary furniture and difficult-to-reach nooks and corners. Also consider light-colored wooden floors and linoleum coverings, in order to spot dirt easily. Maintenance should therefore be kept in mind while coming up with room decorating ideas for girls.

"God created boys, Full of spirit and fun. To explore and conquer, To romp and run." Anonymous.
As a mother, you do not have to be told how true it is in the case of girls of today, as well. So, everything about the room has to be minimalistic in nature. Besides, with growing space-constraints of today, kids' bedroom decorating ideas have to be simplistic without compromising on the functional factor. So, instead of a big dresser, give her a long mirror put up directly on the wall along with cute shelves to keep all her bric-a-brac. Also, girls need a lot of closet space. If you do not have space to build her an extra-large cupboard, then use up other spaces available. Make drawers under the bed or construct cabinets under the windows. Smart designing of bedroom furniture serves the purpose and saves space, too.

"The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war." James S. McDonnell.
If you take bedroom decorating as an art, which enables you to instill constructive motivation in a person, then you have won the battle. Your girl should want to come back to her room and not run away from it. Use the space wisely to cut out negativity from this personal space and turn it into her comfort zone. Make it bright and stuffed with colorful pillows, so that she is comforted in her room when depressed. For instance, if your girl is comforted by the sea, then see to it that her room is loaded with sea memorabilia. You can line up a school of starfish of variant sizes and shades on a photo rail molding, a pelmet or even the shelves. Or place an ocean flora in her room, made by sticking shells to wooden sticks or skewers, and then sticking them into a glass container stuffed with synthetic foam and sand. Remember to arrange the larger shells first, and then fill the gaps with the smaller ones. Build a small library or reading nook with lots of cushions and carpets at one end of the room so that it doesn't look like a study, but serves as one. Also, having DVDs of films adapted from famous books will inspire her to read up as well, instead of whiling away time.

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them" Napoleon Bonaparte.
Thrive in the meaning of this saying. Room decorations for girls need not always be expensive, since money is an important consideration while doing up a house. Cheap room decorating ideas are easy to come by, especially for a girl's room. Remember, girls are very attached to every little trinket in their room. So just recycle, they won't mind at all. Use all the frocks she has grown out of, to make her a wall hanging, cushion covers or a quilt. She will love to reminisce in the remnants of her childhood. You can also use old furniture parts creatively. For instance, take an old window shutter and paint it. Ask your kid to then stick an array of little decorations such as shells, stars or sequins. You can then place your daughters favorite photos on the slats for her to relive her best moments everyday! Encourage your kid to create props for her own room. She can make photo-frames with ice-cream sticks or lampshades with colorful paper. She can even make permanent showpieces for her room line a marine mosaic which requires inexpensive things like sand and shells. All she needs to do is fill a big bowl with shells and then press shells onto the surface of the sand in decorative patterns, topping it with a starfish. If your girl is fond of flowers but your budget does not allow an expensive vase, then fret not. Just take a big conch shell and place it firmly on a dish of sand. Next, adjust pre-soaked floral foam inside the shell to hold the flowers. Your natural vase is ready.

Now, with these golden rules by heart, you are ready to move ahead and explore more kids' bedroom interior design ideas beyond the obvious. Room decorating ideas for girls are always in plain sight. Just look around and you shall stumble upon one!

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