How to Design a Disney Cars Themed Bedroom
Kids love the story of Disney Cars. Lightning McQueen, a rookie race car driver eager to succeed, discovers that life is more about the journey (instead of the finish line). Encourage your child’s sense of imagination by designing his very own Disney Cars themed bedroom. With a backsplash of new paint, a few accessories and furniture revamping, his bedroom will surely become his favorite hang out.
Start with the Walls
Nothing makes characters come to life like a fresh new backdrop. Choose paint colors that coordinate with the Disney Cars color palette (such as ice blue or a mild tint of green). Choosing light colors will make it easier as your child grows (and his bedroom changes). These colors will also accentuate accessories that you choose for the room. Consider painting base boards a bright white to make wall colors stand out.
Furniture
If purchasing new furniture is a budget breaker, consider painting your existing furniture fun colors that tie into the Cars theme. Keep the room from becoming too busy by choosing a single color for headboards, footboards and dressers. Painting a bed red gives it a “car like” feeling. Purchase solid white knobs for dresser drawers, which contrasts nicely against a fresh coat of paint.
Consider purchasing an inexpensive toy box and applying a new coat of paint. Your child can place fun Cars Foam Decorations on the toy chest to liven it up. Purchase a Cars themed comforter, which can be found at most retailers. Another comforter option is a solid bedspread that matches the Cars color palette.
Accessories
There are plenty of fun accessories that can bring life to your little one’s room. Check out the Cars Victory Lane Blue Grey Wall Boarder. This border is super easy to apply and won’t leave damage on walls (this is especially convenient if you rent).
If you aren’t a wall board fan, consider using Disney Cars Foam Wall Decorations. These accessories contain nine mini soft foam shapes you can place all over the room. If you decide to redecorate later on, the shapes can easily be removed without causing damage.
Finish off your child’s room with a Disney Cars Smart Tiles Light Switch Cover and a Decorative Wall Hook to hang your little auto racer’s favorite items (so they don’t get lost).
Creating a Disney Cars themed room will liven your child’s imagination. He can fall asleep and wake up with his favorite characters. Getting your child involved in the decorating process will help build the excitement.
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Decluttering Your Child’s Room
Over the last few years, there has been a huge push for decluttering and, in fact, there have been many articles on it and on the benefits to your health, your budget and your peace of mind that decluttering can bring.
Because of this push, more and more of us have made the leap to declutter if not all, at least most of our house. We have had garage sales, given stuff to good will and found proper places for everything else. We have worked hard to get everything done and we are usually very happy with the outcome.
That is, until we walk into our children’s bedrooms. At that point, we realized that all that energy spent decluttering was lost because the biggest clutter was safely tucked behind closed doors. Toys are strewn everywhere, there is very little space to put anything new and nothing seems to have a proper place. Even clothes that could easily go into a Wonder Pets – Storage Hamper have missed their destination and are now on the floor instead of where they should be.
Thankfully, there is a way to make order in all this chaos and it can be done within a day or, if it is really bad, over a weekend. All you need to do is follow these tips.
Tip Number One: Assign a number
Okay, I have probably lost you here but before you start putting things away, you will need to assign a number to everything. This should be the following:
One: The Must Haves. These are all the toys that will need to go somewhere, like in a Disney Princess Horizontal Storage Bin.
Two: The Unsures. These are things that your child is on the fence about. Does she want to pack them up, give them away or keep them out to display.
Three: The Giveaways. These are all the toys and clothes that your child has outgrown and you won’t be handing down to your other children.
Four: The throwaways. As much as your child will protest, there are just some things that can’t be salvaged. Throw them away and don’t look back.
Five: The Storeables. Any clothes or toys that can be packed up and brought out later. This can be for younger children or for any seasonal toys you have.
Tip Number Two: Have a variety of storage
When you have all the toys sorted, it is time to start storing everything you are keeping. There will be a number of items that you can place on shelves or on the top of dressers as a decoration but most things you will want in a toy box.
While I am not a huge fan of toy boxes, I do find bins and hampers to be the ideal. These can be tucked onto shelves or placed into closets and you can really add a bit of a theme to your storage bins.
Also, you can use them to keep toys separated. For instance, a Disney Princess Horizontal Storage Bin can be a perfect place for a girl’s dolls and all the accessories that go with them, while a Disney Pixar Cars Storage Bin can be the perfect storage bin for all of the car tracks that your son has.
Tip Number Three: Be creative
The last tip that I am going to mention about decluttering is be creative. Many times we create clutter by using conventional shelving and storage options, which take up much more room than we really need.
To cut down on the bulk, use hanging bins, such as the Disney Tinker Bell Hanging Mesh Storage. This can be an excellent way to get those smaller items up and out of the way or you can use one to store an assortment of art materials that your child uses.
Remember, in the end, the best option is to have a space for everything while making the decluttered space kid friendly.
How to Design a Disney Princess Themed Bedroom
Thinking of redecorating your little princess’ room? Why not give her some royal company? The Disney Princesses have mad a majestic comeback in recent years, and the crowned heads can offer an imperial touch to any girl’s room.
For those of you who don’t know (have you been living with the ogres?) the Disney princesses consist of Cinderella, Snow White ad Belle, Jasmine and Sleeping Beauty. With a wide line of furniture, bedding and accessories, decorating with these noble ladies will be magical, and give any girl a bedroom that is enchanting.
For a truly regal appearance, begin with the walls. There’s nothing plain about princesses, especially those from Disney, and no need to set them against a plain backdrop. Try alternating a paint roller length of matte paint with a roller length of satin in the same color. The walls remain monochromatic, but the effect of vertical, satin/matte stripes is stunning, and will transition easily as your child grows and her bedroom changes. Any color from the princesses’ palette will be striking in this alternating finish. By using the colors (or a lighter shade) of the princesses’ dresses, you ensure a perfect match. Because hot pink is the dominant color in most of the furniture and bedding, use a lighter shade of pink, if this is the chosen wall color. For girls who want a livelier look, choose three represented colors, painting individual walls a solid tint. Tie the bold look together by leaving one wall white and adding crowns and hearts to it, using the Disney princess palette. Commercial wallpaper and borders are, of course, readily available in almost any style imaginable. You can even make your own (more cost effectively) by purchasing paper table clothes at a party store, trimming the border from them and using decoupage medium to adhere them to the wall. (Leftovers can adorn light switch covers and plain picture frames, or anything else you can decoupage.)
For kings or queens who don’t own their palace (that’d be you dads and moms who rent), or who aren’t sure their princess will stick with one theme for a long period of time, there are alternatives.
Wall stickers are a relatively new item on the decorating scene. These cool little decorations can be moved without damage, so removing them or taking them with you in a move is possible. Using a panel of princess fabric as “wallpaper” is another option. Simply use heavy starch to attach the fabric to the wall; it will come down easily and the starch will wash away with soap and water. Painting murals on muslin or painters’ canvas also gives you an easily-removable option that provides an imperial bang. Your hand-painted mural can be hung as a tapestry, or adhered to the wall with fabric starch. A floor mat can be created in much the same way, using outdoor latex paint and painters’ canvas, finished with a polyurethane glaze. These removable items make a princess room a financially-feasible possibility for those who rent their homes, or for girls who are likely to change their theme in just a couple of years.
Furniture is next. Beds, vanities, headboards and storage benches are all available for your girl’s bedroom. Because most of the furniture is less expensive, it is primarily pressboard or plastic, with the toy box selections being fabric. For higher end furniture, there are bonuses; for example, the wooden toddler bed transitions from toddler to twin size. Available at stores nationwide or online, creating just the right look for your daughter’s castle is simple. Prices are reasonable, ranging from the low $30’s into the mid-$100’s for the less expensive line, and into the $500’s for items such as the Disney Princess Twin Carriage Bed. As always, there are options for do-it-yourselfers. Dressers are harder to find. A coat of paint and faux gold-leaf, stencils and a new set of drawer pulls (cut “crystal” acrylic, or perhaps wooden pulls decoupaged with princess stickers) will solve the dresser dilemma. Making your own crown headboard and princess shelves is as easy as a jigsaw, a piece of plywood, paints and a little imagination (Disney inspired, of course).
Accessories are available in most popular retail stores. From comforters, lamps and curtains to picture frames, bookends, trash cans and clothes hampers, these princesses are the hottest thing going. Comforters may feature the princesses as a group or individually, and in the “traditional” pink, green or purple backgrounds. Most individual accessories are priced under $50, while accessory sets range into the low $100’s.
Bedrooms are a statement of identity and a place of privacy or sharing, depending on the moment and mood of your princess. There’s no reason, with the wide variety of Disney Princess bedroom items available, that it cannot also be enchanting.
How to Design a Hannah Montana Themed Bedroom
To design a room with a theme can be a simple task if one is able to locate and purchase the necessary components to bring the room’s decor together. Fortunately if one is seeking to decorate a little girl’s bedroom in to a Hannah Montana Shrine, the possibilities are endless.
Even before entering the bedroom, a silver heart shaped door hanger stating “Back Stage pass required” announces a rock star may exist waiting beyond the door. Make your way in to the room, and a myriad of options await. Turn on the light switch with the Miley Cyrus and friends light switch cover, and a Hannah Montana Acrylic lamp on the bedside table lights up. Additional Hannah Montana electrical outlet and light switch covers are located around the room showing many options for designs on the cover faces. Focus on the bed as the center point, and two popular comforter sets make matching window treatments a no-brainer. Pick the dark blue and pink dotted bed spread (with matching sheet set) and the record shaped throw pillows will accent the motif. Pick the turquoise blue and purple bed set and the matching furniture will follow. Six different throw pillows and a fleece blanket add versatility in additional bedding comfort.
The furniture is designed for a tween’- someone defined as a preteen, between the ages of eight to twelve years old. The soft, cloth covered headboard is created for a twin bed, as are the bedding sets. The headboard design will match the turquoise and purple bedspread and skirt, with the ever present guitar and Hannah Montana’ logo ensuring a visitor will know the young girl’s passion for Hannah Montana. A matching side table with light blue flowers and guitar, bentwood tween’ chair and a bentwood directors chair add the finishing touches to the furniture. Place one of the chairs in front of the fully functioning 15” LCD TV created to imitate Hannah Montana’s live stage setup and the tween will never want to leave her room!
On the walls hang Hannah Montana signing posters- press the button on each and one will play ” If We Were A Movie” , the other “Pumpin’ Up the Party” by the one and only Hannah Montana. A life size bright blue guitar offers hanging space on the wall with four sturdy hooks. A three-piece picture ensemble hanging by a tiny guitar offers the tween a place to display 4” x 6” pictures of her pals surrounded by gold-tone art and rhinestones. Dozens of different stick on wall appliqués allow for the tween to create her own style with Hannah Montana, flowers, friends, and guitars. A clock on the wall in the shape of a guitar reminds the tween to keep her eye on the time. A black denim door organizer with Hannah Montana logo hangs on the back of the door with multiple pockets for the tweens many activities and busy life. Leave the Hannah Montana diary with Marabou Pen on the bedside table for the tween to write down her hearts secrets and the room will be complete.
