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Cost-efficient Decorating
How to Jazz up Your Child's Room and Stay Under Budget By Tamar Weiss
Sims started decorating her son's sports theme around a comforter she found on sale at a local discount store. "I found a cute red and blue comforter that had baseballs, soccer balls and footballs as a border. I found some solid-colored pillowcases and a contrasting bed skirt in royal blue to complete the bed."
"Sheets are the least permanent part of the room, and yet they give the room instant personality," says Karen Levine of Karen Levine Designs. "The bedding also comes in a wide range of prices. Various home decor stores and catalogs put out beautiful bedding and curtain combinations at very low cost."
"Instead of wallpapering the room, paint the walls and ceiling and trim the room in a wallpaper border," says Zinberg, also an interior designer of 25 years. "Borders can be hung along the top of the wall, mid wall or around door and window openings." You can also make your own stencil and use it as a border around the room.
Instead of stenciling or wallpapering, Sims found inexpensive wood plaques for her son's room. "I bought some unfinished wood plaques of baseballs and footballs at the hobby store and painted them the best I could! to match the comforter," she says. The finished plaques were hung around the room.
"The fastest, most exciting transformation can be done with paint, luckily also a wonderful option for budget-conscious parents," says Flauto. She says traditional rules need not govern your paint choices. Using more than one color and dividing the walls into different segments or using different shades of colors are exciting ways to go.
