Decorating Ideas for Kids Rooms at Green Apple

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Blue Room		Blue Room
Decorating Tips An inexpensive way to give a canopy look without the heavy feel of a canopy bed. Often a child's room is too small to carry off a large canopy bed---but your kids love the look. The solution: rods are afixed to the ceiling and to both sides of the walls. Sheer white fabric is draped through the rods and puddled on the floor. Paint your walls and use white as the unifying color. Your room will pull together quickly.		Decorating Tips Quick trick using fabric. Here different cotton print fabrics are overlayed on a square piece of wood covered in a thin layer of batting. Pull the fabric tightly and staple. Contrasting ribbon is criss crossed and a button has been attached. This great piece of wall art does not match the bed covering but picks up the pastel colors of the bedding. Three small pillows, however, were made that carry those colors over to the bed

On Safari Room		More On Safari Room
Decorating Tips A little more complicated but so worth it! The room is painted in 3 rustic colors. The mountains rise and fall with easy to paint peaks. By using masking tape you will get crisp lines. The 7 jeeps are placed throughout the room---some large and some smaller. The jeeps are made of hard wood, cut out and painted. The hardwood is very inexpensive-two or three dollars for a very large piece. The hardwood is like peg board, very thin---but without the holes---about 1/8" thick! Project an image onto the hardwood, trace the image and then cut out with a jig saw. The jeeps are tacked to the wall with small nails. The painting is actually very primitive---it is not exact, so do worry if you are not an artist. Trees and bushes have been added for some height and added dimension.

Vintage Car		Vintage Car
Decorating Tips Real license plates add a colorful and graphic border to this vintage car room. A few "garage finds" have been used as room accessories. We have recreated this vintage sign for the fraction of the cost of this antique. See our vintage car page.

	Vintage Car	Vintage Car
	Decorating Tips An antique life size pump is price prohibitive for most. In our vintage room, we have taken the feel but not price. Consider our pump found in the Vintage Car Room-and ours holds CD's. We love the license plates and the use of signs on the walls. Go to our vintage car room and check out the signs to recreate the look.

Princess Room		Ribbons and Bows
Decorating Tips Buy a ready made comforter and buy fabric in coordinating prints. A pastel plaid and solid pink were chosen for this room. Get a custom look for a fraction of the cost. This room is over the top. Three different patterned wall papers, coordinating pictures and signs, and a bed filled with princess pillows. Consider our Fairy Tales Do Come True Signs on the Princess page.		Decorating Tips By adding a ribbon and bow (with center flower), the picture becomes visually more important. Coordinating quilt used as a table topper. You can't quite tell but a sconce has been added to either side of the bed. To hide the unsightly cords, coordinating fabric and ribbon have been tied around the cord. A great trick when a room has not been pre-wired. When you put accessories on a table top, remember the rule of 3's or 5's. Here they used a photo frame, greenery, and a small glass clock.

Hot Pink Room		Hot Pink Room
Decorating Tips There is an expresssion in athletics---Go Big or Go Home, in this room it is Go Bold or Go Home! Buy a mirror that doesn't match the furniture. They have used a decorative hook and painted it white to hang the mirror. Ribbon is used to attach the mirror to the hook.		Decorating Tips It's all about color in this room. White, however, is the unifying color which is used in the furniture and moldings. Notice the prints used above the bed. These frameless pictures are wonderful. No expensive frames or matting and no glass to break. The look is clean and crisp. Oosy Daisy Art can be found on our products page.

	Girls Room
	Decorating Tips How simple! The room is painted so you see the striking color contrast. You don't want white walls and white rods. These simple and inexpensive rods were painted white to match the other accessories in the room. Small bracelets, watches and key chains were added The rods are about 18" and the spacing is about 6". Visually you have filled up wall space with very personal treasures.

Baseball		Disney Room
Decorating Tips Inexpensive items can be used to set your theme. Here, an inexpensive jar filled with baseballs. It could be tennis balls, ping pong balls, marbles, or golf tees. Books also can set your theme when displayed in your room.		Decorating Tips First, bead board and dramatic wall color are in this season. Consider, however, a wide bead board width, as used in this room. Costumes and boas were hung on hooks and are used as wall decoration for this nook in a Disney inspired room. Can use dance recital dresses, princess tutus, or dress up costumes. Consider our princess tutus and boas found on the princess page.

Girl's Lacrosse		Girl's Lacrosse
		Decorating Tips Yes, they are wall words and they are everywhere. Even the cougar prints are wall words! Easy to put up and remove. Whether your words are for lacrosse or for baseball, basketball, football, or tennis---you choose the words. TACKLE---SCORE---TOUCHDOWN Photos of your child in action have been enlarged and framed. Molding which has been painted black frames the words. Sweatshirts have been made into pillows and we love it! Get a quote on custom wall words at Thegreenappledesigncompany@yahoo.com

Tropical Room		Tropical Room
Decorating Tips Sometimes using wall paper on two walls is a great way to make a room pop. A solid color coverlet is used rather than the tropical pattern---it makes the room less busy. The pattern is picked up in the dust ruffle and pillows. Two garden flamingos were mounted on a board and the board was painted white. Inexpensive stuffed animals complete the look.

Yellow Princess
		Decorating Tips Wallpaper is making a comeback. The upper 2/3 of the wall is wallpaper and the bottom is in a matching yellow---white bead board trim separates the two. The trick is to create visual impact. Flower wall pegs are used with princess boas, necklaces, hats, and veils. These same pegs can be found on our pegs page.

		Frame With Ribbon
Consider using our pink or shabby chic white scalloped frames and weave a dramatic ribbon for a similar effect. Find our frames on the Chef page. Available in shabby chic white and pink.		Decorating Tips Take a ribbon and weave it through a frame. The ribbon makes the frame pop and it becomes much more significant on the wall.

Train Room		Train Room
Decorating Tips We wanted to offer this railroad crossing sign, but the fact of the matter is, it is just too EASY to make yourself---and costs under $15.00. Go to a home store and buy 2 pieces of wooden fencing, these slats were about 4" wide. One slat becomes the vertical anchor. The other piece is cut to make the 2 cross pieces. Paint the pieces in a couple of shades of brown/grey, that will give it more depth. Once it has dried, distress the slats further with a little white paint. Remember the distressing should be subtle and not harsh, smudge and wipe as you go to give it an aged look. Stencil the word CROSSING on one cross piece and RAIL ROAD on the other cross piece. Leave space between the word RAIL and the word ROAD so it will align properly. Layer the three pieces of wood and screw together. Don't forget the details---paint the screws---you don't want shiny silver screws.		Decorating Tips The painting technique in this room was wonderful. A linen technique was used so the paint is not a flat blue. Small lines, in a slightly darker blue, simulate stitching and ran vertically around the room. Other small handpainted lines ran vertically, every five feet---again to simulate denim stitching. A plain denim comforter is used with pillows in coordinating fabics. If you can't find a denim comforter go to your fabric store and you can sew your own denim duvet cover--it's only four straight seams!

Dance		Garden Trellis Room
Decorating Tips Use what you have for your dance room. Here a tutu and hair scrunchie and ballet shoes were used in a shadow box. Soccer shirts, baseball or football jerseys are also candidates for the shadow box-and nothing is more personal that using their things.		Decorating Tips There are several things that we like about this room. First, inexpensive solid color bedding is used and mixed with floral and solid color pillows. Three very inexpensive plates are used over the twin bed. In our photo archive we have several rooms, where plates have been used very effectively. A shade slightly lighter than the bedding is used on the walls---not the exact color. A garden trellis from the home store was used and decorated with a lilac floral vine.

Bear Room		More Circles in Child's Nursery
Decorating Tips Cut round 14" circles from hardboard and paint. Hardboard can be found at any home improvement store and is very inexpensive. These were fastened to the wall with tiny nails. Super easy! Choose one color of dots or use many colors.		Decorating Tips More circles, this time using varying sizes. Diamond squares inside the circles were made of felt and glued in the center. Use a fine point paint brush to connect a vertical line between the circles. It appears that the circles are floating from the ceiling. Your color may not be brown---but consider the colors of your room. This provides a great graphic element to your room.

Cowboy Room		Cowboy Room
Decorating Tips A bead board frame is embellished with a few trims. Rope and wooden buttons have been added.		Decorating Tips Color has been banded at the top of the room. A simple rope has been hot glued and then nailed into place. A few horseshoes have been added.

Cowboy Room and Wall Words		More Wall Words
Decorating Tips Wall words are everywhere. You don't need an artist, paint, or talent for that matter. Wall words are found in designer showcases around the country. Look for Wall Words that Green Apple has recreated for you. Go to the Cowboy Page.		Decorating Tips This was found in a Parade of Homes in a Mud Room. If you can think of something to say, Wall Words can go on your wall. Email us and we can have our Wall Word expert will make you one. Thegreenappledesigncompany@yahoo.com

Americana and Bears		Americana and Bears
Decorating Tips Americana and Teddy Bears meet in this wonderful girl's room. An old door, painted a rustic red, is used as a headboard. Inexpensive stencils in stars and strips are used to bring color to this room.		Decorating Tips Can't find art that you like? Here the stars and stripes have been applied and then framed. A quick do it yourself piece. Since it is a primitive looking piece you can't make a mistake.

Beach Room		Beach Room
Decorating Tips Not all art has to go on the wall. Great easels can be found now that will bring art to a child's level. A starfish and shell garland are used on the easel and a beach sign sits beneath---each one seals the deal and let's you know that you are in a beach room!		Decorating Tips Here an oversized mirror was painted white and took a mirror from very ornate to shabby chic. Spray paint is your friend and will take a mismatched item to perfect. Behind the mirror-it must be securely fastened so it will not tip. Look for the white rug on our solid color rug page.