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There’s Snow White and Cinderella, Aurora (better known as Sleeping Beauty) and Ariel, there’s Aladdin’s Jasmine and the Beast’s Belle. Role models for your little princess are everywhere she looks. Which is why it only makes sense to give her a bedroom that makes her feel like fairy tale royalty.
At the Heart of It All: The Bed
At the core of every princess’s private chambers is her bed. A bed for a little princess might be (or look like) be a four poster bed, maybe a canopy bed, maybe both. Custom theme beds can be designed to look like anything you wish, and it is nowhere more apparent than in a princess themed bedroom.
Long flowing fabrics, plush pillows, satiny bedding, frilly lace borders - all of these help complete the image of bed fit for a princess. But with a custom theme bed, the fantasy doesn’t stop there. For that bed can be placed behind a drawbridge inside a magnificent flower and vine covered castle or it can be placed inside a splendid horse-drawn carriage (pumpkin shaped or otherwise).
Whether you select a princess castle bed, a horse-drawn carriage bed, or a custom theme bed of some other design, the fact remains that your little girl will be elated to bed down at night and will wake up each morning feeling like the queen-in-waiting that she is.
Colors for a Princess Themed Bedroom: Pretty in Pink
Though purple and gold are considered royal colors, they would be better used as accents in a room dominated by the color that dominates most little princess’s fantasies - pink. A pink castle bed, for example, will make any little princess’s eyes sparkle. Pink bedding, pink window coverings, pink lighting fixtures, pink carpeting, and pink supplementary furniture all only complement and complete the picture.
Then consider using white highlights throughout the room to neutralize the impact of all that pink.
Murals Make it Easy
Both on the walls of the bedroom as well as on the walls of the custom theme bed, painted murals are an easy way to incorporate a wide array of fantastical elements into your little girl’s fairy tale world. From her dashing prince or knight in shining armor to her animated attendants to all the extravagant accoutrements of a perfect princess fantasy, a simple brush and paint make magic-making easy.
Furniture for a Princess Themed Bedroom
A little princess always has to be looking her best, so an ample wardrobe and dressing table with mirror are the two essential furniture elements to add to any princess themed bedroom. You could go ahead and furnish each of these pieces separately with no trouble, but another option is to have a wardrobe and dressing table built in to her custom theme bed.
By: Joann Means
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Interior designer Joanna Means brings to every custom theme bed she designs her love of children and a desire to help bring their fantasies to life. For many years, she has designed fantasy princess theme beds that her husband, master carpenter Johnny Means, then builds to masterful perfection. With their custom castle beds, custom horse and carriage beds and other fantasy themed beds, Joann and Johnny have brought delight to little girls all over the world, which is why they created Sweet Dream Children’s Interiors,
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Looking for a fun or colorful theme for your child’s bedroom? Tropical island beach themes are popular and beautiful, and can offer many different decorating ideas. One of the coolest and most popular ways to turn any kid’s bedroom into a surfer’s dream is through the use of beach surf wall murals.
These days, beach surf wall murals go on quickly and come off just as easily. Gone are the days of messy wallpaper applications that left sticky glue reside behind when you removed them from your walls. Advances in printing and materials have led to bright, vibrant, and breathtaking scenes printed on peel-and-stick vinyl wall decals. Surf wall murals depicting beach scenes, tropical backdrops, or tremendous crashing waves can be produced in ultra-realistic fashion, and in sizes never before possible. Great online sites like the Wall Sticker Outlet carry large selections of beach-themed wall decor, and always offer free shipping as well!
For the avid surfer, beach wall murals must include an array of colorful surfboards. Set against a monster wave backdrop, a surf wall mural or surf shack wall decal goes perfectly against another mural of a sandy beach. By layering the stickers and decals involved in your surf wall mural, the wall of your child’s bedroom can instantly become an entire tropical scene upon which to build the rest of the room’s decor.
Beach surf wall mural possibilities also include other options. Custom-printed Minute Murals created on professional-grade wall covering come as complete kits ready to hang. These wall murals assemble in minutes and can be moved and hung exactly where you need them to go for instant dramatic impact. Dry-erase wall stickers in beach or surf themes are also available, and they make perfect messaging and list writing room accents for kids or teens on the go. Surf shack or beach themed growth charts are great additions to tropically decorated rooms, and wall borders are also available to fit alongside any type of beach surf wall mural.
Other wall decals and stickers can be purchased to accentuate beach surf wall murals and really make them pop! From tropical Hawaiian flowers to palm tree vinyl decals, these types of decorations fit right in. Many of these beach and surf themed stickers aren’t just for walls, either. Fully removable and repositionable, these vinyl decals can be used to bring color and life to furniture, lampshades, picture frames, closets… the only limit is your own imagination. Tropical peel and stick appliques and decals also include cool 3-D products such as the tropical window wall mural made by Wallies, giving a glimpse into beach life no matter which wall you place it on.
Wall hangings and canvas beach surf wall murals can also be added to any tropically themed room. The flexibility offered here allows for these murals to be placed in addition to existing wall decor, in places where color is needed. Many types of canvas kids wall art can be customized and personalized with your child’s own name at no additional cost. Try to find an artist who will do this for you, or a boutique who features such artisans.
In the end, no tropical paradise is complete without the addition of a beach surf wall mural. Make sure yours is complete with flowers, palm trees, sun, and surf. Pick colors and accessories that accent your sandy beach theme, and maybe even a few pieces of surf flair to help bring everything to life. Aloha!
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Jan
7
When it comes to creating a child wall mural, you have a wide variety of choices. One of those includes making an exciting horse mural. Here is a look at how you can easily create a new and exciting wall mural for your kid’s bedroom or playroom.
Picture yourself standing among an old west stage coach being drawn by a team of horses. The dirt and dust is flying and the mountains are off in the distance. No, this isn’t a scene from a western movie, but it is in your child’s bedroom!
Of course, that is only one idea for a horse mural and there are hundreds of others as well.
With any horse mural you will have some choices to make when it comes to creating it on your wall.
You can always hire it done, but be prepared to pay a hefty price for an artist to come in and do it.
You can also purchase a pre-fabricated horse mural, but they can also be expensive and you are basically stuck with whatever designs are available.
The other option that you may want to consider is buying a horse mural kit. You can find them online by doing a quick search.
Taking pictures of horses you have in the kit and stenciling them onto the wall is a great way for anyone to come up with their own kid mural. You don’t have to be an artist to use a stencil.
Next, you can paint by number and add color to all of your stencil work.
Creating your own horse mural is really not as difficult as many believe. Have some fun with it and you’ll soon have a showpiece for years to come.
By: Terry Edwards
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Even rainy days are fun for your child when they can walk right into their very own jungle safari adventure. By implementing some of the eight ideas in this article, you can easily and inexpensively create an imaginative escape your child will appreciate.
1. Choose a wallpaper border with jungle animals.
There are many wallpaper borders available with jungle animals in the forest, safari scenes, and other wildlife that is found on a safari. By applying a wallpaper border, you are bringing the theme to life for the entire room. Before applying the wallpaper border, pull a neutral color out of the border and paint the walls in that companion color.
2. Make the adventure more realistic with a wall mural.
For an awesome look, locate a companion floor to ceiling safari wall mural and place it as the focal point on just one wall. These murals can be very realistic looking and bring vibrant color into the room which will delight your little one and make them truly feel they are stepping into an adventure every time they enter their special space.
3. Create animal print accents to tie into your theme.
Find leopard and animal print fabrics at your local fabric store. Make simple throw pillows from the fabric and place them on your child’s bed, a cozy chair or on a comfy bean bag. These animal prints will pull the safari theme around the room.
4. Add coordinating window treatments.
Make a simple rod pocket valance from a companion animal print fabric. A rod pocket valance can be made easily by hemming the top and bottom of the fabric. Turn the top of the fabric over on the back side to create a 1.5″ rod pocket and run a stitching line. Make the valance approximately three times the width of the window so that you can gather it on your curtain rod.
5. Accent with inexpensive plush animal toys.
Pick up some stuffed animal plush toys at your local discount store. You can easily find lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes and many more types of safari animals extremely inexpensively. Place these on the bed, on dressers and on shelves to carry out your jungle animal safari theme throughout the room.
6. Hang mosquito netting from the ceiling.
This can be done in a corner of the room or over your child’s bed to provide a canopy. Your child and his friends will love to camp out beneath the protective net while on their own safari.
7. Add cost effective accents to expand the theme.
Mount a straw safari hat and crisscross two butterfly nets on the wall. This can be done above the headboard of the bed as a focal point, or above a low dresser if a wall mural is used as the focal point.
8. Make your own safari artwork.
Cut jungle animals out of leftover wallpaper border and then mount the cut outs on a sturdy white paper. You can also make use of any leftover animal print fabric by using it as a mat around your photos. Simply use fabric glue to adhere the fabric to the edges of a simple wooden frame.
Any of these eight ideas, or even all of them, would be great cost effective alternatives for creating a jungle safari bedroom adventure.
By: Tammy Billings
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Wall murals are a creative way to decorate any room. Don’t be intimated. It is possible to paint a superb wall mural even if you feel like you are not an artist. Wall murals look great in children’s rooms, the kitchen, the bathroom, the family room, or just about anywhere you want to personalize a cold, plain wall. Plan carefully, have patience, and you are sure to be rewarded. You can even practice first on a wall not many people will see, like in the laundry room or the basement. You can decorate a wall while practicing and increasing your confidence.
Have fun picking your image pattern. You can either draw it yourself or pick a favorite picture from a children’s book, art book, or greeting card–anything really! If you want a more elaborate wall mural, you can pick images from different sources, like a border from a children’s book around a scene from a child’s birthday card.
Be creative with your design. Garden murals filled with flowers, ivy, baskets and butterflies are an easy way to brighten a kitchenette. Paint faux brick, tile, or marble to dress up an entryway. An ocean scene with fish, a beach, and palm trees can add whimsy to a bathroom. Paint a scene from a favorite children’s book to welcome a newborn. Or paint a baseball themed wall mural to make a home office seem more playful.
You can also use words in your mural. Wrap inspiring poetry around your dresser to help you start your day happily. Remind your children how much you love them with kind words by their bed, or even paint a playful reminder by their toy box to put their toys.
Remember, you are making the house yours. Take chances to find something you love. And if you get tired of it, you can always paint over it.
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Are you good at drawing and painting? Do you love colors and like to play with them? Do you feel that you are quite an artistic person and create good children’s mural paintings? If the answers to all above questions are affirmative and you have decided to make a living with your artistic skills, you have a very good option to start a children’s mural painting business. This is a great home business opportunity for stay at home moms.
The Business Idea
When parents design their children’s bedroom or nursery, they would love to have an adorable hand painted mural on one of the walls. The painting can be beautiful nature scenery or a cute cartoon character that their children would love to have in their room. Children often feel helpless as they cannot paint it themselves; this is where the children’s mural painting services can help them. You can offer them guidance on the available options or take their ideas and paint a colorful mural for them.
With your creative imagination, you can offer tips to the confused parents who want to fill up their children’s room with colors. If the child for whom the room is planned is a school going kid, then he on his own may already have planned about what kind of mural painting he wants for his room. In that case, you would have to take tips from them to design their room. You would be surprised to see broad smiles on their faces when they see their dream room becoming a reality! And you would be highly motivated and satisfied with what you are doing.
Startup Costs
For mural painting business most of your investment would be on paints and other instruments required for painting. These tools include brushes in different sizes, paints, practice boards, some mural books, creative DIY books and DVD’s. Before starting your business collect all the necessary materials and stock your supplies depending upon the order. You would also need additional capital for advertising your business.
How To Market Your Business
For successful marketing of children’s mural painting business, the most important step is to create a portfolio. You can collect all the photos of children’s murals that you have done in the past and put them together in an eye-catching album. You can also add some new murals to enhance the appeal of the portfolio. The next step is to let people know about your mural business. You can feature an ad in the Classifieds, local Yellow Pages or parents’ magazine. For promoting your business initially, you can also offer some discount. The best option is to paint a free mural for a children’s nursery or a school or even for a children’s clinic. You can also take the online route for advertising your business by developing a website.
Put your heart and soul into painting children’s murals and you would soon be earning appreciation and great money too!
Have a blast with colors!
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Parents must realize that children’s rooms can grow with the children. With fun touches lively colors, theme oriented children’s furniture, and playful children’s bedding, makes kid’s bedrooms exciting spaces to decorate. Plan on reinventing your children’s room at least 3 times during their maturing periods: the infant to toddler changeover, the initial school years, and teenage years. Planning carefully and making wise furniture choices can reduce the degree and costs related to the predictable redecorating.
Mutually Designed
The design expert in the house is the child; they are the ones that will give you the inspiration. Child involvement is very important when selecting the color pallet, themes, and touches. From ages 3 on, the child can assist in selecting paints, wall coverings and textiles, don’t be lured into over decorating. Learn to say no diplomatically, if for example the child selects a room color that is out of the question, compromise, and use it in the accents they are easy to change.
Children’s Furniture that Grows
Select durable and easy to care for rather than style. Plastics, painted surfaces and laminates are perfect. Look for convertible cribs that become toddler beds, chests that double as changing tables, these can be used for years to come and storage modules that are adjustable. When choosing the first big boy or big girl bed, full size should be the bed of choice. The full size bed allows the parent room for those scary nights and a place to sit while reading bed time stories. When selecting major children’s furniture, themes should be avoided, the Disney princess bed today, may not be so popular tomorrow, as in teen bedroom furniture.
Schemes that Children Love
Children will generally pick the brightest and boldest colors; this combined with distinct shapes help to kindle the learning process. Neutral accented with bright tinges, walls covered in floral, checks or stripes are great for backdrops. Try to do your walls in a neutral and the accents in one bold color, such as white walls and pink children’s bedding, area rug, curtains and cushions. Doing a kids bedroom decor in this manner will allow you to change the color of the accessories as the child’s taste change, without having to repaint. Other accents to consider are drawer pulls and knobs, wall art, lamps and shades rugs that can be reversed and children’s bedding.
Summary
When deciding on children’s furniture, remember today’s children’s bedroom furniture can be tomorrow’s teen bedroom furniture, and boys bedroom furniture doesn’t necessarily have to be that different than girls bedroom furniture. Walls should be painted in a neutral color and bold colors can be added with accents such as children’s bedding, drawer pulls and knobs, reversible rugs, curtains and cushions. Children’s bedroom furniture should be sturdy over style, practicable and easy to clean, and not theme oriented. Allow the child to give their input, but keep in mind you have the final say, let them choose the accent colors rather than the wall colors, as these are easily changed over time.
By: Norman Burr
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Custom murals can be found in every high end interiors magazine. How can you bring the look and style of a custom mural to your walls without the great expense? Discover the new mural transfers! These transfers simply rub off the transfer paper as thin as a coat of paint…in fact, if you ever want to redecorate, simply prime and paint over, just like you would a custom mural. The artwork is high resolution and captures every color nuance and brush stroke of the original artwork.
Like tattoos for your walls, mural transfers have the irregular edge of the artwork and your wall color is part of the design. Translucent shadows are part of some designs and bring added depth to your mural artwork. Run your hand along the edge of the mural and you will not feel an edge! These are not like the wallpaper murals of old!
For about 1/10th the price of a custom mural, you can fashion your walls with highly customizable mural transfers. That $500 mural you want? You may be able to rub a fabulous transfer mural on your wall for $50-$75! Even up close, you’ll hardly be able to tell the difference! Even better, you will have fun rubbing it on your wall, no paint, no fuss, no mess!
Mural transfers bring a new option to the growing list of ways to decorate your walls. There are highly graphic solid color vinyl wall decorations and wall quotes but mural transfers are full color and answer the need for a more sophisticated effect. Fashionable trompe l’oeil designs, wrought iron elements, aged mosaic, ivy, vines, children’s murals like bright paisley, polka dot and striped butterflies or bright balloons -that look so real you expect them to pop- are among the designs you can expect to find!
One exciting quality of mural transfers are that they can be highly customizable. Take a wrought iron design. These are usually printed in separate elements so you can join them together in any design you want, from a headboard to an over the door embellishment, or to even frame a plain mirror. Intertwine a little ivy and you have a one of a kind mural made from transfer mural elements. If you want a more straightforward design, there are plenty of those out there too!
A quick Google search using wall transfers or mural transfers should net you a few companies that are starting to develop their line of mural transfers. Stay tuned for this product to explode in popularity. From popular vinyl sports rub ons to wall quotes, we are seeing brand new ways to make our walls a canvas of personal expression in our homes.
By: Carol Reynolds
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Wall sticker decor is the hottest new trend in decorating everything from living rooms to children’s bedrooms, with an enormous variety of shapes, sizes, and colors now available. Choosing which type of wall sticker or decal to use on which wall of your home might be harder than you think. Luckily, most wall sticker decor can be broken down and separated into the following categories:
Vinyl Decals - Vinyl Wall Decals are popular because they are both removable and repositionable. Since there is no glue involved, vinyl stickers will not leave marks on your walls. This type of wall sticker decor comes in small individual sticker sizes and larger murals that must be pieced together almost like a puzzle. Places like the Wall Sticker Outlet carry hundreds of types of vinyl wall decals in every theme and color of the rainbow.
Wall Appliques - Peel and Stick wall appliques usually come as several pieces on larger sheets. They’re designed to stick to any smooth, dry surface, and therefore can be used on home furnishings, accessories, cabinets - the possibilities are endless. Appliques are smaller in size, safe, and completely removable/repositionable. Even better, the surface of wall appliques can be washed with a sponge and some mild detergent, making them the most flexible type of wall sticker decor there is.
Wall Murals - These type of wall stickers are designed to form a scene or theme, and go especially well in kids bedrooms. Bright and beautiful arrangements can be created with a minimum of effort, and you can easily create custom murals of your own simply by purchasing individual wall cutouts. Wall murals are usually pre-pasted and go on with a damp sponge or paper towel and a little bit of water. The dramatic effect the right wall mural can have on a room is tremendous.
Wall Transfers - Rub-on wall transfer stickers are easy to use - simply peel back the protective coating and apply them to your walls using the included applicator stick. While they cannot be moved or repositioned, transfers can often convey the look and texture of expensive hand-painted artwork done by professional artists. They are printed on high-resolution paper, so detailed that you can actually see the brushstrokes of the original artisan’s design.
Paper Cutouts - Cutout wall stickers and decals are great little additions to lamps, tables, picture frames, vases… stick them anywhere you want them to go. These die-cut pieces are usually pre-pasted and smooth on with a little bit of water. Paper cutouts come in unlimited colors and styles, making them a versatile type of wall sticker decor used to accent larger wall murals or stand as individual pieces.
Dry-Erase and Chalkboard Surfaces - Great for home, office, or student dorm rooms, chalkboard and dry-erase wall stickers can be applied to any smooth surface. A fantastic idea for shopping lists or notes to family members, the surface of these wall decals can be written on with chalk or a dry erase marker, and then later wiped clean with a soft cloth. Many chalkboard and dry-erase types of wall sticker decor are both removable and repositionable, making them a perfect temporary solution or permanent fixture - whichever you require.
So remember - there’s no more excuse for plain old boring walls! Wall sticker decor has evolved to new heights of convenience and creativity. Whether you’re creating your own unique life-sized wall mural or applying a high quality pre-printed transfer, choose the decal that’s right for you. Be brave, be bold, and above everything else, have fun!
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Ceramic wall murals can be used as decorative accessories, to lend a distinctive taste and style to a room. Ceramic wall murals include art pieces made of clay and porcelain. They brighten up plain walls and improve the room with a renewed freshness and energy.
Ceramic wall murals are essentially tiles, which are hand painted and display exotic patterns and designs. The tiles used are water resistant and glazed ceramic tiles. The tiles used can be of different colors such as, light yellow ochre, cream, ivory, sea green, dark blue and terracotta.
Ceramic wall murals differ in size, shape and design. In the case of big murals, the tiles are cut into pieces. Then the pieces are individually designed to fit within the measurement of the wall. Some of theses murals have borders. They can be used to enhance the beauty of the outdoors and indoors alike. These are used by many interior decorators to offer liveliness and beauty to the designs. The ceramic wall murals are a form of architecture, used in the decoration of many ancient buildings.
Ceramic wall murals have an advantage over the wallpaper murals, in the sense that they can be easily cleaned. The colors do not fade away. They are glazed and treated at a temperature that seals their colors. The techniques used for making these murals are advanced and modern. Some of the companies use traditional processes and kiln- baking.
There are many companies who have their ceramic wall mural designs and ideas lined up on a website. People can browse through for inspiration and even place their orders for the ceramic wall murals, according to personal preference. Murals are custom made too, on the basis of the dimensions given. Sometimes they can be used to only decorate the borders of the walls.
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