Place cutout magazine pictures into pretty frames and hang them on the wall.
If you are going to have children staying with you or living with you, designing a room especially for them makes them feel welcome and at home. Plenty of DIY projects are easily handled on your own and can change a study or a spare bedroom into an ideal room for a young child. Does this Spark an idea?
Paint
Painting the walls of a room is a great way to change the room's entire appearance. If a room had white walls or neutral walls before, change things around with more lively colors, like blue, pink, green or yellow. Paint one wall a vibrant shade of a color and then paint the other wall the same color, but two shades lighter. This gives the room a dramatic splash of color without being overwhelming.
Stencils
Make a plain room more welcoming by using stencils to paint designs on the wall. Stencils are readily available from the craft store and come in a wide variety of shapes that are ideal for a child's room. Floral patterns, sailboats, vines or animals are all great choices. Use the stencils to create a border around the edge of the room near the ceiling. Stencil matching designs on the door and on the furniture in the room to create a unifying effect.
Curtains
If you can see, create cheerful cloth curtains for the kid's room. Many colorful calico prints suit children, whether they have sweet floral designs on them or bright cartoon characters. Sewing curtains can be as easy as cutting out two large rectangles of fabric and then hemming them. Then the top few inches of the curtain are folded and sewn down to create a channel where the curtain rod is inserted and the curtains are hung.
Framed Magazine Pictures
Remove pictures that you like from magazines, taking care to trim off any text or rough edges. Place the pictures into cheap frames and hang the pictures up in the kid's room. Choose pictures that might appeal to the child, including animal images, images of pretty nature scenes and images of foreign places. Choose pictures taken from old calendars for a similar effect.
Modular Furniture
If the child who is moving in is very young and you have some woodworking skills, create furniture that grows along with him. A short wooden table that is ideal for a toddler to draw at can be converted into a bench at a later point, and wooden boxes that provide seating can be used to store toys later on. Choosing modular furniture allows a small amount of mix-and-match, which allows the child to create his own room designs later on.
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