Bunnies, butterflies, blossoms; an enchanting wonderland awaits…
With a little fun and creativity, the garden can be a great inspirational place in creating a magical and serene environment for a girl’s bedroom. Letting your child participate in redecorating their bedroom is a great way to strengthen your bond with them and help foster their creativity and imagination.
The best place to start in the design process is by taking your child to a real flower garden! While some parks, zoos, and public botanical gardens have spectacular flower gardens, perhaps the best place to start is their own home garden! Encourage your child to describe what they see. Do they see butterflies? What colours are the flowers? Are there snails, bugs, or birds around, or could they picture a rabbit hiding in the roses? Take all of these design ideas with your child, and find out what they want their magical bedroom garden to look like!
Take note of gardening tools used in gardens that could be incorporated into the room décor. Plain, fairly large metal buckets or plastic flower pots like those seen and used with gardens could be purchased inexpensively, spray painted bright pink or yellow, and used to store toys next to the wall or under a sweet garden bench piled on top with cottage rose inspired bench cushions and pillows! The same could be done to a watering can to be used as a vase for fresh or silk flowers you noticed in the gardens. Keep these and other inexpensive garden ideas in mind!
The essential theme pieces to a girl’s room like bedding sets, pillows, floor cushions, and throw rugs can be located easily online, and shipped to you within a couple short days while you spend your quality time repainting and decorating. The Living Textiles and Bambury bedroom collections sold through The House Queen online has a few collections that work beautifully in a garden-themed girl’s room: Bambury’s painting fairy collection, Living Textiles’ Bella Butterflies, and Living Textiles’ Secret Garden collection. These collections include everything from wall décor, book ends, bedding sets, pillows, duvets or doona covers, and quilt covers, which are all accessible through The House Queen. You can use these products as inspiration pieces for colour and theme elements.
After considering what type of products and designs you and your child want to incorporate into the room (colour choices, garden objects you noticed on the garden trip, and furniture pieces), start with the biggest decorating projects like painting and moving in furniture, and then focus on the fun garden details. Remember to let your child help where she can!
A room could be painted in solid feminine colours that are complementary to the theme like a bold pink or combined pink, yellow, and greens in various patterns seen in today’s kid room styles: stripes, big coloured spots, and colourful hand painted or vinyl wall flowers.
Another great idea is to actually make the walls part of the theme by painting a mural of a garden! Garden scene wallpapers are also available through some online retailers if you prefer not to paint a garden onto the wall. A mural is particularly fun as it seems to really transform the room into a secret garden. Add to the magic by painting the back of her bedroom door or closet door like an old wooden door to a secret garden.
After the major projects are underway, look into ways you can use small details to make a big impression. A painted wall bunny peaking out from behind a girl’s bed or curtain and flying butterflies and dragonflies located all throughout the room will delight your daughter’s fancy. Small decorative butterflies found at any hobby store can be tied into the curtain rings on the top of window curtains and even glued to her bathroom shower curtain rings.
What other things did you both see while you were out in the garden? Many home improvement stores will even have small window flower gardens that will allow your child to grow her own flowers right in her very own enchanting garden room. Find other creative ways of incorporating those colours and objects throughout the décor! For any questions or if you need help with ideas, The House Queen will be available to guide you, http://thehousequeen.com.au!
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