Princess Bedroom Decorating on a Budget

By Cynthia Marcano

Every little girl deserves the royal treatment, but it can get costly. No need to worry. You can create a princess royal suite on a paupers budget.

Here are a few tips to help create the perfect princess room without spending a lot of money.

Paint can become costly, especially if the room is large. Try just touching up areas that need it. If her room is in desperate need of repainting, try purchasing returned paint. Some home stores may have cans of paint that were returned and they resell at a discounted price. Another option is to paint stripes on the wall. You will use half the paint you would have needed to paint the entire room and add a decorative touch to the room. If stripes aren't your style, trying painting the lower half of the walls and then adding a handpainted or wallpaper border to the top of the painted area. Again you are using half of the amount of paint and adding a decorative touch.

If you are starting from scratch and need furntire to fill the room, you have several options here as well. Visit flea markets and rumage sales for dressers and bed frames. You can paint the pieces to match each other. Get creative by adding her initials to the furniture pieces or adding wall stickers to them. White, pinks and purples are the basic princess colors. If you have a toddler, you can find a princess bedroom kit for about $150 or so. It usually includes a princess themed toddler bed, toy storage chest and a table and chair set. The bedroom in a box needs assembly and can range in what is offered.

If you already have outdated or worn furniture, you can spruce them with some paints and decals for a new and fresh look. Find images of princess furniture online and try to duplicate using paint. This could save you hundreds of dollars in new furniture alone.

To fill the walls you can visit your local superstore and buy princess themed posters that cost less than $5 each. The posters are fairly large and will cover a large portion of wall space. Try adding it to an inexpensive poster frame for an extra touch.

Wall sticker decals are fairly popular and are inexpensive. You can spread them around the room or add to one wall for a dramatic effect. Either way, you have wall decor at a low cost.

Princess Bedding can be expensive, so you can try solid colored bedding in pink or purple and then purchase a princess themed pillowcase or throw pillow. Keep an eye out for sales on bedding at the local stores to get a good price.

Decorating your daughters room to fit a princess theme doesn't have to be expensive. Remember that not all items have to be princess. Bedding and window treatments can be solid colored and then add princess themed touches around the room. Princess themed rugs, accent pillows, wall decals and posters make the perfect accessories for your daughter's royal princess suite.

About the Author: Cynthia Marcano is the webmaster for Princess Bedroom Decor where you can find lots of princess bedroom decor ideas and products. She is also the webmaster for All Things Princess where all things are princess themed.

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Creating The Ultimate Fantasy Princess Theme Room

By Joann Means

What little girl doesn't see herself at some time or another as a princess in a fairy tale? Now your little girl can feel like the little princess she is with her very own castle in the form of a princess castle bed along with a fantasy princess theme bedroom all her own to match. To create this for your little princess is actually quite easy. All it takes is a little foresight and planning, and a dollop of imagination.

In planning a fantasy princess theme bedroom, you'll want to consider several factors, namely: colors, furniture, bedding, and accessories.

A good item to start with is color, as deciding on the color scheme for her princess fantasy theme room will make it easier for you to choose every other design element, like furniture upholstery and window dressings. The most common color for a princess fantasy theme room, as you might guess, is pink.

Pink is the consummate color of the princess, but like little princesses, it comes in many shades. So start with a palette of shades of pink (or whatever primary color your little princess prefers - be it silver or purple or green), and decide on the shade or shades you and she like best, as well as any complementary colors to use for accents.

After you've decided on that, you can start to examine furniture. The centerpiece of any fantasy princess theme bedroom is, of course, the bed - as in any bedroom. But this is no ordinary bedroom, and so deserves no ordinary bed.

To transform your little girl's room into a princess theme room, it needs a castle, a fortress all her own, and there's no better way to accomplish this than with her bed - a princess castle bed, to be precise. And while you're having that princess castle bed built for your little princess, get some of your needs met at the same time. Include storage in the towers - be they drawers, shelves, or a wardrobe. Build an upper loft for a bunk bed or open out the lower area for a play space or study space. Turn one of the towers into a climbing wall for safe indoor fun and exercise. An accomplished custom fantasy theme bed designer can easily help you incorporate all those elements into your little girl's princess castle bed.

Once you've got the centerpiece settled, you can then start selecting supplementary furniture. Here you can save yourself a little money by looking at existing children's furniture you may have lying about or buying unfinished furniture, and simply painting it all your little princess's chosen color.

At this point, all that's left is the fun and creative part (as if this wasn't fun) - that being the selection of accessories like lighting, fabrics, and wall and floor coverings. Here is where you can start to add detail to your little girl's princess castle bed and fantasy theme bedroom. Consider animal prints (birds, deer, etc.), colors and floor coverings connoting grass or water, and wall coverings connoting sky and distant vistas.

Together with your imagination, you and your little girl can come up with a fantasy princess theme bedroom, princess castle bed and all, that she will cherish for a lifetime.

Interior designer, Joanna Means brings her love of children to every custom theme bed she designs. For years, she and her husband, master carpenter Johnny Means, have been designing and building fantasy princess castle beds for little princesses far and wide. Their princess castle beds have brought such delight to so many little girls, in fact, that they created Sweet Dream Theme Beds and Children's Interiors, http://www.sweetdreambed.com to spread that delight even further.

All of the fantasy princess theme beds at http://www.sweetdreambed.com can be custom designed to suit your specific needs as a parent and your little girl's unique tastes. Together with Joanna's designs and Johnny's craftsmanship, you can set the stage for a wonderful fantasy-adventure storybook fairy tale world all your little girl's very own.

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