kids room when renting
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Topic: kids room when renting
Posted By: lizzle
Subject: kids room when renting
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 3:45pm
| I know some of you have awesome rooms for your little ones, but what I am really interested in, is some ways to make the rooms "theirs" when you are renting and can't really paint or put up too much. and on a budget - just to make things trickier. Was thinking of trying to make some bean bags until my SM found out and and freaked out about beans up noses and so made me promis not to, back to square one! |
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 3:58pm
| Yeah I remember someone telling me it's not a great idea to have bean bags for the same reason, but couldn't you fill them with something other than the little round balls? You know like those larger knucklebone shaped pieces or something? |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 4:26pm
| A friend of mine has bean bags in her girls room, all they did was make another bag and put all the beans in them and sewed it up so no little fingers could actually get in and then put that inside the actual bag so it was perfectly safe |
Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 4:29pm
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We have the same problem, so I put up one massive sheet of polystyrene and the kids can put their pictures on that and only four small holes in the wall not heaps, They all have a coloured section each. I have also painted their beds and drawers. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 4:41pm
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Can you put stuff on the walls? Our landlord lets us. So we've got paintings that the kids have done, and Nyahs' grandad has painted for them.
You can get those sticky wall thingees, that come off the walls without taking the paint with them. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 4:41pm
| I have done addisons name in wee square painted canvas's and i put them up using those 3m things. Im just about do do a big canvas picture for her room which should cover heaps of the ugly wallpaper. I did her furniture and brought a cheap rocking horse which im gonna sand back and paint to match the furniture so between all that there isnt much wall space or floor space left of the ugly stuff. I do need to get her a nice girly floor mat and want to paint some coat hooks too. |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 4:48pm
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The little coloured bookcases fromt he warehouse for 12 or 15 dollars are great too to tie into a colour theme you have. Such a bargain! And perfect kid size. -------------  
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Posted By: nictoddie
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 6:06pm
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I've made name poems for mine in their rooms, and they have their own curtains that brighten up their rooms and makes it a bit brighter, Makayla has fairy ones and Braedon did have bob the builder but I recently sold them when we move again, I am gonna do Thomas ones for him to match his duvets on the bunks, if they let you put stuff on the walls their is lots of things you can do and quite cheaply too. ------------- 
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Posted By: porcelina
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 7:01pm
Those 3M hooks are fantastic, I haven't started decorating yet though there were a few picture hooks in baby's room already which will hold the wooden-framed mirror I have painted with wooden cut-out animals with googly eyes and baby's name (if the sonographer is correct!) 
You can always make things that are light to go on the walls (those hooks don't hold too much weight), for example if you are craft-inclined like me perhaps some cross-stitch and small paintings. Furniture can always be jazzed up, I am hoping to do the same sort of thing for some small drawers for baby that I did for my own set of drawers, painted and then got stick-on foil and cut stars out of that so I have shiny sparkly stars on my drawers. If your landlord is super-strict you can always make something to lean on the wall for your little ones to put their drawings on. -------------   
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 8:20pm
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We used the 3M hooks in our last place, they were great. We're lucky here that our landlord is awesome and even painted the girls rooms in colors to complement their furniture. I want to get curtains to match their color scheme (Maya's is pink and cream and the gremlins is pink and lime) but still getting around to that.
In our old place we also put up a cork board to pin pictures, notes, postcards etc. to brighten up the room, they are about $10 at the Warehouse and have a wooden border that you can paint to whatever color the room scheme is, you could even add some of those small wooden letters from Spotlight along the top with the kids names. And framed photo's are cool and inexpensive, Maya has several pics of her with various family members on her bookcase, window sill, pelmit etc. and the gremlins have them on their dresser and a huge block mounted enlargement of a photo of them when they were tiny. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 10:12pm
| love the polystyrene wall idea - that is great!!! |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 10:16pm
They are totally a bargain! We bought a white one for Ashlee's room and I want to decorate it up. Just waiting for the inspiration... or at least the Spotlight sales! |
miss wrote:Posted By: porcelina
Date Posted: 21 July 2007 at 10:45am
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Another idea if a landlord lets someone paint a room is that magnetic paint, then whoever is there and future kids can use magnets to hold stuff up rather than holes! -------------
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