I am doing a new horse theme for my room. I really am not sure what do get for it. Like sheets, wallpaper,etc. But, I was thinking about green turf. Also, how should I do it? We want to get it done by the summer.
How about hardwood floors (barnfloor). A wooden bed. Mint green walls, with wooden trim in corners & top of walls. A paper border about a foot down from the ceiling, with horses/ponies on it. Pictures of them on the walls as well, with lots of grass in the pictures & maybe flowers (wildflowers). Have some wildflowers, real or silk, in vases in your room. Have real horseshoes over the door & windows.
In your browser line on your computer, type in the name WALLIES and check out their site. They will also send you a free catalog. I ordered the horse wallpaper murals from them for my computer room. They are probably about 28" tall and come in a set of two. They look great and all you have to do is wet them and press them on the wall and they don't come loose.
my idea was the horseshoe, maybe u could clean some up and put pictures in them to make unique picture frames
We just did this in our little girl's room. We painted it pink and put up a jagged edged picket fence wallpaper at the bottom of the wall. We also put string lights with horses and cowgirl hats around the ceiling...available at Target. I ordered the "Pretty Pony" sheets from The Company Store and just use a quilt with it. Her room is adorable. We also put down laminate flooring. She has a loft bed with a play space underneath where she plays with her dollhouse and horses. Target also has some other accessories that are cute like a "Cowgirl" hook for hanging hats or necklaces.
This is just me but I think that a good wall color for a mountain/horses theme bedroom would be dark green, maroon, or beige. I would include lots of horseshoes and a wooden-stlye bedframe and bedside table. Maybe even some metal wall art or something.
I think you should get a horse mural and put it on the wall where the bed would go. Paint the walls a nice light brown color(depending on what the mural looks like) Get western type bedding. There is furniture that is made of logs. Its really cool. So use log headboards, dressers etc. Hardwood floors would look really nice.
What I did is I painted my room brown and I got a horse themed blanket Then above my bed, I put cowboy boots. Then on each side of the boots, I put spurs.I got an old like antique saddle and put that on my saddle rack. I put an bridle on the wall above the saddle and I put bits on each side of it. That looks really cool. I have a big mirror and on the top corners, I put spurs on them. In the middle of my room, I have a long white furry rug. Make to sure to get like a western bed or a log bed, and I painted my closet door like a barn or stall door it turned out great.
First thing is first- go to this link... www.target.com/
If you want, you can take the colors from this bedset (after buying it, or even without buying it) and use them as your main colors for the room. On the wall, paint some clever horse saying, or use this one:
"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyways." or "Cowgirl at heart!" With creative writing. Paint the closet door as a stable or barn door that still coordinate with the bed set's original colors. At the top corners of the window, put horseshoes painted one of the main colors. Above the bed, hang a coat hanger (the four pronged one is best) and put two cowboy hats on the edge hangers, and two ropes on the two middle ones.
At target and walmart, there are also curtains that are the main colors. Use these, and get some horse shoes and put them on the inside of the window sill, facing outwards with the two ends. You can pull the curtains back and stick them in these- they hold them back perfectly.
Wall pops are good too, but don't cordinate these with the bed color. Get black ones, it gives the MOST exciting touch to the room, especially a pink or lime green wall. Have some throw pillows that have horses on them, and to add a nice touch you could even sew (or stitch) on rope around the edges. A pair of pink of lime green boots are GREAT to put beside the bed.
Just looked into this myself and discovered GREAT easy breezy ideas. If your child is likely to move into the next stage and not want something too kiddie;
1. The picket fence idea is great for a headboard.
2. Go with rustic color wall paint and affix rope in a swirly loop fashion peppered with horseshoes in random angles.
3. Also you can dedicate one wall to horses and use a wallpaper mural or the horse decals, which are appliques that are easy to remove.
4. Another clever idea I stumbled across was finding an old boot, place a cheap vase in it, and fill with silk daises or real ones!
5. Lastly, which I too will likely use, is locating brass rings and letters, and using your child's initial place the letter in the ring and affix to closet doors or headboard.
My daughter loves horses, but she also likes bright rainbow colors and peace signs. So, we are going to use bright colored bandanas and old jeans that are torn up to make pillows, cover her cork board with a bandana and paint the frame of it a bright color. I am going to paint an outline pic of a horse in hot pink. We googled "horse stencil" to find that. We call her room "The Funky Cowgirl" I am building her a loft bed that stretches completely across the room (it's only 9x9) and we can have "play area" above and below. I do like the idea of the horse shoes that others have listed. I think I will use that. Thank you! :)
Ideas that I use for my Horse Crazy Bedroom:
1.) Your walls: I have a friend who plasters horse posters and cut outs from magazines all over her wall (and roof!) I also did that, but then I moved house and now have wooden walls, so now I can't cover my walls. :(
Instead I am putting together a big collage. I have a couple of massive frames that I will fill with pictures of my horse, my favourite horse breeds etc. I also cover my door with posters of horses but in a nice and clean manner. :P
2.) Your bed and other furniture: I have a white rearing horse on my duna with matching pillows. I also have a couple of extra pillows that also have horse pictures on them. A throw will usually sit on my bed as well along with some plush horses. I have to rotate these plush horses because they don't all fir on my bed! If you have a headboard you can put a western hat on it, or hang a crop or have a horse shoe attached to it. I don't have a headboard so I can't use these ideas myself. :(
If you have a bed side table next to it first place some essentials on it. I am a teenager so I can be quite messy at times but when my room is clean this is what would usually be on my bedside table.
~Lamp (with horse stickers attached to it, you can also glue a model horse to it if you wish.)
~A horse novel or magazines (Horsewyse etc.)
~A model horse or two
~A framed picture of my old riding school pony
A clock is also a good thing to include but at the moment I just use my phone. :)
3.) Extras: Have model horses everywhere, I place mine on my desk, bedside table, on my wardrobe etc!
Horse shoes and old tack can also look great! Hang up a horse shoe (the lucky way up) and include an old saddle in the corner of your room. Or have a bridle hanging on your doorknob.
I got an old cardboard box and cut out pictures from magazines (horses) and stuck them all over the box. I put this on my floor and keep all of my horse magazines in there. :D
Have a pin up board that includes pictures from magazines, pictures of you and your friends riding, contacts, timetables, when your horse needs a vet check next etc!
I also put extra posters on my wardrobe, it has a mirror attached to it so on my mirror in the corner in a plastic snap lock bad I have my horses baby tooth, his ad that was in the paper (For Sale Ad), "Eat, Sleep, Ride" bumper sticker, confirmation of the standard bred picture, a rosette (that I made), and a sticker of a horse head. These are all placed neatly.
Extra toy horses can have their own little area, I have a cushion on my floor up against the wall where they all stay. A little herd. :P
You can make a herd with model horses too.
Have music playing, a cool idea is to go onto the internet and get all kinds of horse WAV files and put them onto something like movie maker, then burn it onto a disc and have it playing in your room. You will feel like you are in the stables 24/7!
On your door (the outside of it) you can have a "do not disturb" sign with horses on it. Or a sign saying "out riding". I also put up a caution horses road sign that looks awesome!
I also have a bookshelf that is dedicated to my model horses (such as Breyer, Schleich etc.) I show them so they have their ribbons there also.
On my desk shelf I have some awesome western riding boots that look great! Another idea is to have a "Horse of the Week"! I have a mini mini chest of draws that I stuck a label on it (Horse of the week) and every week a new model horse goes on it. :)
So have I given you enough ideas? If not just ask me more questions. :P
*I think that you could get one of those little windowsill boxes and grow some grass in there for your horse figures to roam around in. You could paint the outside of the box like a fence too.
*If you have a more rustic or more western, wooden type bed, then you can either put it against the wall and lay a pretty big piece of smooth green turf underneath it and bordering it, use either picket fencing or plain wood fencing. To leave that area, you can insert a little gate that you can use to go in and out. You can do this with the whole entire room(floor). *If you're renting a home or cannot make permanent changes to your home, here's what you can do: If you like to paint or you're really good at it, then paint your walls. Then when you leave that house, just repaint the walls the color that they were when you arrived.
* If you like flowers, but don't know were to put them, get an old boot and stick in a small vase and put in a silk flower or a real one.
*After you don't need your old horse calendar, cut of the pictures and make a huge collage on a huge piece of card board. If you have many many pictures, then get a piece of cardboard the size of your wall and make a wall collage!
I hope that all of these ideas help you.
You can also use an old barrel for your dirty laundry too.
For a more horsey bedside table, you can get an old wooden or paint a plastic barrel and there you have a horsey bedside table. For more info, just ask me more questions.
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I'm getting ready to fix up my little girls room. She is 5 years old and loves princess things (not the Disney princess), glitter, tiara's and all that girly girl stuff. My problem is we don't know what color to paint the walls, either a hot pink or dark purple. All of her furniture is white and I want to keep it that way. I have lots of other cute ideas for the room, but I just don't know what color to paint. If anyone can help, please let me know.
Try a light pink or light purple. That way, after you paint the walls, it won't be darker than expected. Personally, I'd do a light pink color.
We did a princess type room for my sister when she was that age .. it was so much fun to put together! For her walls we did a plaid design with pastel pink, lavender and yellow. It was pretty easy to do .. just a bit time consuming and used lots of masking tape!! It turned out so cute plus using more neutral shades made the room "age" with her well .. she's almost 11 now and into flowers and plants and the pastels plaid still looks cute!
Good Luck and Have Fun!
Rebekah
My girlfriend did something like this. One purple wall
3 pink walls...then a border just outlined and inside
the border she rubber stamped tiara actually the
5 year old went around stamping. It was adorable.
Your imagination is the limit. Oh she also stamped on plain curtains...
PERSONALLY PINK & PURPLE ARE SO GIRLISH. I AM VERY PRACTICAL & IF YOU WANT IT TO LAST A WHILE TILL SHE IS OLDER I WOULD PAINT IT A SOFT MINT GREEN & ACCENTUATE IT WITH PINK, GREEN & LAVENDER ACCESSORIES.
I did the same themed room for my daughter. We painted the walls a light purple and the woodwork as well as molding around windows a light pink.
I made curtains from a light sheer material and tied them back with purple satin ribbon with a bow on the top place in the middle of the rod.
I also used handmade floral head wreaths with purple and floral ribbon and hung them on the sides of the curtains.
We placed a canopy (KB toy store) that has crowns on the material and a feather ring around the top.
She loves it and it goes well with her butterfly and flower bedding and mathing area rug..
That way only some of the items need to be updated as she gets older and just keep in mind paint is cheap but accessories are not so get creative..
I just did my daughters room I didnt want her to out grow it so we did the 2 walls a bright pink and left the other 2 white it looked really nice after we finished and it isnt overwheming in too much pink. The walls with pink we had the trim of the windows, the closet and doors are white.
From a Guest Poster: I would go with the dark purple. After all purple is the royal color and I think it would be more soothing to enter a purple room then a shocking pink one which could be disorienting. plus Pink is not a very diplomatic color and has such strong things that it stands for purple on the other hand is flexable with your childs change of intrests.
I whant to paint my daughters room . And i already have green fitted carpet and pink and light purple curtains.what colour do you think i shall paint wall.
Hi! I am working on my 3 1/2 year old's room right now. I just got done painting three of the four walls a "cotton candy" pink. The reason I did her room in pink is because it has been her favorite color (and probably will be for a while!). It isn't so dark that it will be hard to change later on either. On the other wall, we will be painting "Princess Stuff". I already have plans to put a mirror up and a tree with leaves hanging down from the ceiling. We want to go with the Snow White theme with those two, as well as others. I also plan to get her a pink canopy for above her bed. She already has princess bedding (just princess-from walmart) that matches the pink on her walls as well as a lighter purple that we will be accenting the room with.
We just recently painted our 4 year old daughters room pinwheel pink for her princess pink color. Glidden makes the color (pinwheel) and we bought it at home depot. The color came out really cute! It would look good with the white furniture that you spoke of.
i am looking to do my daughters room with the Princess ideas,
her favorite color is Purple.
we have oak trim and her bed and dressers are oak.
Needless to say daddy does not want me to paint any of the Trim
so i was thinking a different color purple for all walls
total of 6
too much?
Any thoughts would be appreciated
My daughter has white furniture and I painted her bedroom walls purple. It was the disney color enchanted purple and looks great. NOt to dark and not to light. You can have pink curtains and a colorful comforter in different colors to enhance the color of the walls. The ceiling would be half color of the original paint. Good Luck
My little girl is 7 and I just redid her room. We did a bubble gum pink and khaki wide stripe with white accents. It looks awesome! I'll try to post a pic tomorrow!
We went with a purple, with a hint of pink. We orginally were going to go with a cotton candy pink, but thought it was nausating to look at after a while. The purple contrasted the pink accents in a very cute way. I had many people comment on how adorble her room looked.
Well, we just did our 3 year old twin girls' room. We decided to do a princess theme. The walls are all like a princess pink, and one wall is white and it has life size wall stick on things of all of the disney princesses. They look like they are actually in her room. Toward the bottom of the wall we put all the fun little characters from the movies like, the seven dwarfs, the mice from cinderella and cute things like that.
It all looks so cute when you buy all the bedding and put all of the little accessories in the room. If you do a theme room try to make sure that you stick to the theme throughout the room or it wont turn out to great. Try it out though, it looks great and the girls absolutely love it.
I am a 9 year old girl. I love any thing that has to do with music, taking pictures, and hanging posters. But I have a problem. My room has no actual theme at all. Please tell me... What do I do?
If you like to take pictures , treat your room as a studio. Blow up photos, collect old cameras, they are cheap, and use your photos as collections on your walls.
My oldest is 8 so I haven't done a big girl's room yet but I've done a circus theme room, pink hearts & roses, tea party, a garden room, and a transportation theme. I haven't finished my 8 year old's current room but to start with, we found a comforter set that we like and we've been getting stuff to coordinate with that. It has roses & stripes & polka dots in green, pink and red. The main thing is to start with something you really like. The hearts & roses room started from a pretty rug I had. The garden room started with a bed frame (found lots of cute accessories like painted bird houses, etc in the garden section of stores). From that one thing that you have or one idea, start looking for things in places other than traditional room decorating areas in stores. For music, you could decorate with old CD's, get some sheet music and stick it up as a wall border, use only black and white, things like that. The 2 key things are to look everywhere for things that tie in to the idea or item you start with and to pick 2 or 3 main colors and coordinate everything with those. Search internet sites for decorating kids rooms or teen rooms & you might find ideas there as well. Don't get caught up buying a whole line of matching everything (comforter, curtains, accessories, etc) from one store. It gets expensive and it limits your choices. Get one or two things from a matching line, then coordinate w/ other brands or items. Good luck and have fun!
how about this.instead of hanging the pictures on the wall, get a large board and place ribbons criss crossing. then you can place diffrent pictures when it suits your fancy and not have to stick to 1 theme. also avoids holes in the wall. have more than 1 and place diffrent things on them.
For someone who loves music you could do a music theme. Paint large music notes on the walls, or have a sheet music border around the wall near the celing or both. Then leave room for posters of your favorite music groups. To hang your picture that you have taken hang a piece or ribbon, yarn or fishing line between two nails. Decorate clothes pins to look like music notes (cut back cardstock into the shape of music notes and glue to a clothes pin) and use the clothes pins to pin your photographs up to the string. You can have your line up against the wall or you can have it cross your room like a clothes line (just hung high enough so nobody hurts them self).
I hope this helps
stella
My daughter did this in her room: went to a thrift store and bought records - 45's and 33's and used them to decorate her room. You could make a border halfway up the wall and then use posters of your favorite music groups to decorate one of your walls. On another of your walls you could use the records as picture frames if you could get someone to help you cut them.
i want a nice room where i can chill and have fun in.
i want a different room than otha people. i want to have a really cool room
Get lots of different types of things in one color and go from there!
I am doing a Paris themed room. Does anyone have any bedspread ideas?
By alex from CA
Have you thought about using tulle? It is very French. I have used it in several places in my home. I found it in numerous colors and quite economically at Walmart several years ago. I paid $4.97 per yard instead of $15.00+ per yard at other fabric stores. You could made a bed ruffle, shams, and a duvet cover, as well as valances for a fraction of the cost. Hope this helps. Good luck.
Silk or Satin with an Art Nouveau design. Floral, Peacock Feather or Abstract.
A classic black and white always gives a nice Parisian look; maybe white with a nice black feminine pattern.
I want to redecorate my 5 year old daughter's room with a dance theme. She takes tap and jazz, but not ballet yet. I am looking for decor ideas that can incorporate the various styles of dance, not just ballet. Any suggestions?
By Sam from Westland, MI
