Teens are collectors of posters and memorabilia. Create a room that has wall-to-wall bulletin board space. Buy enough colorful burlap material to cover all the wall space in your teen’s room. Purchase molding to paint in a coordinating color. Hang the burlap from ceiling to floor. Continue to do this all the way around the room. Stretch tightly and attach with a staple gun. Staple each corner and down each side. Make sure each section of burlap touches the other. Place the molding along the seams to cover the staples. This is attached using small wood tacking nails. For added interest, cut pieces of molding and attach to over the molding to create bulletin boards within the wall space. This will make a wall full of different size rectangles. Buy push pens for your teen to pin all their favorite things on the wall.
For this new burlap room you can get a comforter set that complements the colors of the burlap and molding. A few colorful throw pillows will finish off this look.
You can buy some inexpensive bundles of CD’s. They can be empty, used, or new. You are going to need at least one hundred of these CD’s depending on the size of your teens room. You will paint your teens walls a color of their choice. A bright color will do best with this technique. You will take the CD’s and spray paint them, on both sides, a color that coordinates with the paint on the walls. You want a contrast, so the colors need to be completely different.
You will then drill a small whole on each CD as close to the rim as you can. With fishing line you will connect the CD’s one by one by putting the fishing line through the drilled hole. Do this until you have five CD’s each in a row about a foot apart and this will make one string. Every other string you will start with a CD and every other string you will start with a piece of line.
You are going to hang the strings of CD’s on the wall. By doing every other one CD first, when you hang them you will have a pattern. Hang the CD’s at even spaces around the room up against the walls. You can hang them about one foot apart. When you finish you will have a room that resembles a disco glitz room of the 70’s.
You can get a comforter set in colors that match the glitter of the walls. With a few throw pillows your teen room is complete.
You can do any type of pattern on your teens room with molding. This inexpensive material can be painted any color and put up against a newly painted wall to make for a one of a kind wall art.
You start by painting your walls one color and the molding a darker coordinating color. Decide on a pattern. You can do across the room, up and down or both. You can put the molding on the wall to make big squares which you can use to center art work in. You can make a border by hanging two rows of molding about six inches apart in a line around the top of the wall. You can also make a chair railing height border using two rows of molding. Molding gives your walls another dimension and it looks great.
- Redecorating Hot Paint Colors 2009 , article,Twrilit
