Solid Colors Perfect for Youth Rooms

We’re currently working on redecorating my eldest daughter’s room. She is nearly 9, and is ready for a look that is a little less “cute.” We’ve been talking about doing it for nearly two years already, and without fail, every year or so, she changes her mind on what type of theme she’d like. So, I came up with a fairly simple solution and decided to go with a simple solid color for the main (aka expensive) pieces – furniture, beddings, chairs, etc.

My daughter picked chocolate brown as her main color, which is perfect. We used shades of neutral browns to match, and there are plenty of neutral colors that work well: blues, greens, etc. My daughter’s wall were painted a light beige color and her bedding and curtains are chocolate brown. Now we are working on adding a few simple accents to give it her current theme: horses. In the future, if we want to change the theme, we simply change the accents for an affordable, quick makeover.

For her horse theme, we are using a horse print fabric for curtain pull-backs, a horse throw pillow, a framed horse poster, a cowboy hat hanging on the wall, and a few horse ornaments on her dresses, and we specifically used items with blue in them to add color as well. But, in the future, should she decide for example that she wanted a ballerina theme, a bit of pink fabric, a new throw pillow & poster, and a few ornaments and there you have it – a whole new look on a very small budget. Other things that could be changed very cheaply include removable wallpaper borders, throw rugs and perhaps a new color of paint on one wall. Here are two examples (all items shown available from Target.com ).

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