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Room For Girls

Decorate a girl's room with these paint ideas, themes, and creative projects. Get inspired!
You'll find wonderful ideas to create a special room for a girl of any age! Use the themes here to decorate a room "fit for a princess" of any age

Angels, Fairies, and Elves
This universal theme will be adored by girls of any age. Angel themes could use faux painted skies and clouds, fluffy canopy beds, and soft icy pinks, blues, and lavendars. Fairy shapes are appealing with transparent wings, sparkling wands, and silvery magic dust. Try to incorporate some sparkles with glittering accents, silver paint, and magical designs.

Princesses and Castles
Your Princess can have a room befitting her high status if you use sheer fabrics and fanciful details. Embellish the walls with faux painted castle walls, murals, and blue skies for a truly memorable girl's room. Contrast the weighty look of faux stone walls with trails of stenciled ivy or flowers and swaths of pretty netting used as a bed canopy.

Tea Party
Pretty hats can adorn a room with a tea party theme. She can arrange her toy pals in chairs around a tea table and play until supper time. Be sure to include a pretty tea set and other tea themed accessories throughout the room. Cheerio!

Young girls who avidly participate in any sport -- whether it's riding, skating, softball, swimming, or soccer -- can readily identify with this decorating theme. Wallies or a wallpaper border is a perfect place to start for a color scheme and in a search for coordinating curtains and bedding. Look for innovative touches to support the theme and be sure to include display shelves to house awards, game photos, and medals.

Storybook Characters
Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, the Little Mermaid, or Barbie might be the starting point for a wonderful theme room. Search the net for specialty character sheets and bedding, then take your color cues from there. Frame book illustrations as wall art or use cutouts of book pages for decoupage on furniture.

Flower Power
Bright and bold oranges, sun yellows, lime greens, and watermelon pinks are the basis of this retro-60's look. Find colorful borders and fabrics featuring stylized simple flower shapes in hot colors, and match these with some plain fabrics for ruffles, valances, and window seat pillows. These flower shapes would be easy to enlarge on a copy machine and trace onto the walls in random patterns, then paint with wild colors matched to the fabrics.

Sunshine
Paint a mural of hills, with the sunrise peeking over the top. Use sunny yellow checked bedding and quilts, green rugs for grass, and paint the ceiling a soft sky blue. Waking up will be easy and fun using this summery look which is sure to please many a young child.

Cottage Style
This is a great theme if your child will be using hand-me-down furniture for her room. Think lots of white and paint all the furniture for creating a cottage style room. Then use either light colors (pink, sky blue, pale green) or set the white off against bright clear colors like grass green or marine blue. You can also use fabric patterns such as tea-stained cotton florals, or use brighter florals, ginghams, or stripes. Find more tips on cottage style.

Sugar and Spice
Every little girl I know loves pretty colors! For a room she'll cherish, select fabrics with flowers, trellises, cute animals, or butterflies. You might stencil flowers, vines, and butterflies on walls as a colorful accent, using paint colors matched to your fabric or wallpaper choices. Don't forget soft, airy curtains for the windows.

Ocean
If you live near the beach, or just wish you did, create an ocean theme using watery blues for the wall, sand colors on the floor, and clouds in the sky (ceiling). Take color cues from a beachy border wallpaper, art print, or piece of furniture like this colorful stool. You 'll almost be able to hear the waves!

Stars
Starlight is a great theme, and you'll find many fabrics, wallpapers, and bedding with star patterns. This theme appeals to both boys and girls, and is available in many colors both bright and pastel. Wonderful theme pieces can be the "star" in a room. You might get star-shaped rubber stamps (or sponges) and dip into wall paint to create your own star border, decorate furniture, or make random stars all over the walls or ceiling. A star quilt or rug will complete the theme.

Moonlight
Create a wonderful, soft look with by the light of the moon. The ceiling might be midnight blue, with painted moon and stars, or use some of the stick-on glow-in-the-dark stars. Embellish a colorful painted bookshelf with crisp white stars, or liven up a plain white chest with a rainbow of star shapes. Find a moon and star quilt or fabric to use for window treatments. Then add a moon cutout headboard.

Decorating rooms for little girls is quite a pleasurable activity. It is a nest for daydreaming, spinning tales of wonder, study, play with dolls, sleep and even do a little makeup and spend time gazing at the mirror for all those imagined-up pimples! Here are some super ideas to transform the room of your place a paradise for fairies:

Girls, whether small, teenaged or those turning into young women, tend to be more creative than boys and love to have a say in the decoration of your room. So, ask your girl to make a list of her favorite toys or characters that she would like to incorporate as a theme of her room.Use her favorite colors to paint the walls of the room, as accents, accessories or linens and curtains.

Girls love to recycle the products and to use them into new creative innovative ways. Mirror attached to the dresser formerly can be put directly on the wall. The knobs, pulls of the dressers and armoires can be changed while posters can be changed for an instant new look.Bold backgrounds with bulletin boards, where the girls can paste magazine cutouts, hand-made greeting cards or their own paintings and drawings, are often loved by them and encourage creativity in them.

New linens, bedsheets and duvet covers matching the theme of the room featuring fairies, Christmas colors, wedding bells or even garden elves are a warm change too. Let the girls paint the matching valances for their windows. The choice and taste of a growing child and girls change quickly. So it is advisable to use the hand painted murals, cheaper options for carpets and rug areas, wall stick ups, framed arts, posters and accent rugs that can be easily changed and are budget-friendly.

Accent pillows and throws, hanging wall tapestry and cheap window treatments and area rugs can be used for introducing variety in color and texture. Don't forget to provide plenty of storage area in the dressing table and a full-length mirror to organize their cosmetics, jewellery pieces, hairpins, combs and other accessories.