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Small Space Decorating - Unclutter Your Nursery

Small space decorating is a challenge that we all face when living in the city. This Spring, Queens Mamas is hosting a series of articles to help you clean, unclutter, and decorate your home in ways that go well in small spaces.

Baby gear, diapers, clothing, wipes, toys, and tiny socks scattered around like rose petals can be  enough to make you scream. Until your baby can grow old enough to clean up after themselves (which may even be never) there are some ways to help tackle the clutter and make their nursery a clean and organized place to start their day.

 

I love a good free event !

Make your next trip to the mall a little bit more exciting.  Since the downturn of the economy, retailers have to create more ways to get consumers through the door. Here are two worth taking advantage of.

Pottery Barn Kids has events like story time, sing a long concert series and even a decorating series on creating the ultimate play space and family holiday traditions.

William and Sonoma have amazing in store demonstrations around the holidays that are great ways to learn a little more about entertaining and using some cool new cooking tools.

Decorating Kids Rooms – Ages and Stages - Baby Nursery

If you are one of the lucky ones who actually have a room for your new tot then good for you ! I am not one of those people. I cram my tween, a nanny, the baby, and my husband and I into a 3 bedroom house that I like to refer to as “cozy”. This means that I have a crib in my room. If you do have a nursery however, odds are that you won’t spend much time in it for the first few months. Either way, here are some essentials for the first year to make your life a little easier.

Kids Rooms - Pre Teen Bedroom Idea #2

Here is another one of my decorating ideas for the ever difficult pre teen. This really doesn't have a theme but it pulls some more grown up style into an otherwise childish space and doesn't make it look too adult.

 

Storage Idea from The Container Store

 

Dry Erase Storage Bins from PB Teen

 

Graphic Garbage Cans form The Container Store

Fun Chair

 

Graffiti Storage Trunk

 

Mini Water Dispensor

 

Tie Dye Bedding

Really Cool Art

 Really Cute Art

Kids Rooms - Pre Teen Bedroom Idea

Designing or redecorating your pre teens room is always such a task. Here are some inspiration and ideas for how to make their living space fun and cool.

Theme: Surfer

There are many ways to decorate without breaking the bank. Painting is my personal favorite but if you don't want to get that involved take a trip to your local party supply store and check out the stock of cool and cheap decorating elements for your tweens room. Target and Ikea are also old faithfuls when it somes to decorating on a budget but the key is to use a bit of discression and not buy everything from one store. Here are my picks for a surfer theme pre teen room.

Color Palettes

 

 

Wave Wall Mural

This mural sticks right to the wall like a sticker. It can be made as large or small as you like.

 

Grass Umbrella

Use as a canopy if the room is big enough and string some lights through it.

  

Colorful Sea Shells

These shells would be nice in jars through out the room

 

Kids Rooms - Redecorating a Pre Teen Bedroom Part 2

 

Decorating and Organizing Ideas

Kids and Tweens are very territorial about their bedrooms. For that reason I had to approach the idea of redecorating my daughter’s room with a bit of sensitivity. 1 gallon of paint, some IKEA shelves, a trip to Wal-Mart and 2 solid days of hard work and my daughters room was transformed into a “ Big Girls Room “.  Here’s what we did.

 My daughter is very attached to every paper clipping and mini eraser in her bedroom. For that reason we were not able to really purge right off the bat. Instead we put everything in clear recycling bags so she could see that we were not throwing things away and got all of the little stuff out of her room. Now we had some space to work. Our goal was to eliminate all of the pink in her room so I picked a nice sage green wall paint from Benjamin Moore. We bought the most expensive gallon ( 40$ ) because 1 coat did the trick over her entire room. It was well worth the dough. 

Kids Rooms - Redecorating a Pre Teen Bedroom

 

At 33 weeks pregnant and nesting like a crazy person, I have decided to redecorate my oldest daughters room.  As a usual tween, her room is packed with toys she either doesn’t play with anymore or is still holding onto for dear life. Either way, she thinks that her room is now “too girlie” and needs to be redone. So here we go. I am determined not to spend a ton of money and have given myself a budget of  $ 250  and 1 week for the renovations. Let’s see how I do.