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Tips:
•Start looking in your child's favorite books, magazines, decorating books, and even online to find inspiration for a theme.
•Your theme can be reinforced with fabric, wallpaper, and a border. Select a main print that will set the tone for the whole room.
•Choose a background color to use on the painted walls, floors, and ceiling. Use your main fabric print to guide you.
•Select coordinating fabrics, accessories, and prints that mix well with the main fabric. Use the colors in the print for inspiration.
•Our Eyes find symmetry in odd numbers, so keep that in minds when working with scallops or collections of items.
•Safety should be of primary consideration when selecting items for a child's room. Keep electrical cords and blind or shade cords out of the way, use non-skid pads under decorative area rugs, and don't stack storage units too high.
•Using coordinating colors in all elements of the room will bring even unlike things together to support the theme.
•Use a common background color when you use several coordinating prints in one room. Choose patterns and prints in different scale, such as a large sailboat print with smaller coordinating plaids and stripes.
•You can create inexpensive framed art by using your child's own artwork or cutting pictures out of books or magazines.
•A good rule to follow for a themed, coordinated room is to repeat each color, fabric, and print, if possible, in at least three places around the room. If you do, everything will really tie together.
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•Create a window treatment that enhances the theme and adds to the decor. Decorative hardware on doors, drawers, and cabinets can continue the theme.
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