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Anybody appetite a Hilary Duff bank poster? In case you don't know, Duff was a boyhood awareness during the run of the Disney Channel TV appearance "Lizzie McGuire" from 2001 to 2004. She was a angel of the adolescent set.
["242.5"]Back then, shoppers could acquisition Duff's angel on bedding and comforters. That was until Miley "Hannah Montana" Cyrus arrived. Now, aggregate from lamps to mirrors to chairs accept Miley's image.
It presents a decorating claiming for children's rooms. Your babe may appetite an all-Miley-theme allowance or your son could be agrarian for the World Wrestling Entertainment. How do parents and kids actualize a bedchamber that will accomplish anybody happy?
Marla Cummings of Fresno remembers back her daughters, Tina, 33, and Jennifer, 30, were children. "They capital Strawberry Shortcake and Holly Hobbie," Cummings says.
Today, Tina Stahl is mom to Caitlin, 11, and Lexi, 6. Caitlin went through a Duff phase.
"She had a headboard, comforter, pillows and blankets," Stahl says. "It was all Hilary Duff. The allowance was blush and silver. That lasted two years."
As Duff confused on to blur roles such as "Material Girls" in 2006, Caitlin became disenchanted with the once-shining adolescent star, her mom says. Her bedchamber was outdated.
"Caitlin was accepting ashamed by it," her mother says. "She didn't like some of the being Hilary was doing. She wasn't that innocent, beautiful Lizzie McGuire anymore."
Caitlin has apparent the light, says mom.
"She doesn't appetite appearance apartment anymore," Stahl says. "She knows she outgrows them too fast."
["242.5"]Today, Caitlin's bedchamber has a bank theme.
"We corrective the walls and put up bamboo blinds," Stahl says. "We acclimated old bang doors for a headboard and ordered a mural online. The allowance is done in shades of blue. She capital a Tiki bar, but I said 'No.'"
"Generally, there are three transitions in the activity of a kid's room," writes Kathy McCleary at the Home and Garden Television Web site, hgtv.com. "The move from a bassinet to a big kid bed at age 2 or 3; the about-face from the toddler allowance to a kid's allowance from ages 6 to 12; and again addition redecoration at age 17 or so."
Stores are stocking linens and added adorning items for kids' bedrooms for every aftertaste imaginable. Boys can accept from skateboard, cowboy, football, trains, pirate, aviation, aggressive and gamer capacity as able-bodied as animation icons such as Spider-Man and Batman. Meanwhile, girls are offered bedrock star, Tinkerbell, Barbie, princess, Parisian style, surfing and butterfly themes, forth with the latest Disney stars.
Stephanie Catron, buyer of Autogenous Intervention in Fresno, says kids' apartment charge to be adjustable as tastes change.
"I would admonish that maybe one bank in the allowance could be committed to the affair itself and again echo the blush arrangement in the blow of the allowance after repeating the theme," Catron says.
The autogenous artist suggests restraint.
"From a architecture perspective, accepting every account as one affair can be actual cutting and expensive," she says.
Mike Ward of Fresno is not a man accustomed to abstemiousness back it comes to his 2-year-old son, Michael Jr., and his admired Pittsburgh Steelers.
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HOLLY HOBBIE DREAM STYLE DOLLHOUSE - HOLLY HOBBIE GAMES | Holly Hobbie House Decorating Games"I started decorating my son's allowance while he was still in the womb," he says. "He has a absolute Steelers room. My wife, Alicia, didn't accept any say in the decorating. Not on this one."
The Wards, affiliated 16 years, additionally are parents to Aubrey, Mikayla and Megan.
"I capital my son to accept the bedchamber I capital as a kid," he says. "I'm active vicariously through my son."
He chose atramentous appliance for the room, including a bassinet that turns into a bed, alteration table and dresser. The walls are chicken and white and the bedding is custom-built in a yellow-and-black Steelers print. A Steelers adaptable hangs over the crib.
Ward, 38, an abettor football drillmaster at Granite Ridge Intermediate, says his admired Steeler is Hines Ward (no relation). He envisions abacus Steelers memorabilia as his son gets older. The ancestor and son already watch football amateur together.
But what happens if Mike Jr., turns out to be a San Francisco 49er fan and wants a red-and-gold room?
"We're activity to accept a above problem," he says.
Parents admit that accouchement and adolescence appetite their own amplitude — a abode for self-expression.
"Parents are actual accessible to accept their childrens' bedrooms be an addendum of what they adore doing," says Lori Bentley; she and her husband, Bruce, owners of Bentley Architecture & Remodeling in Hanford, accept been in business for added than 20 years. "Kids are accepting artistic and cogent themselves."
["227.95"]The abatement affair of the Pottery Barn archive PB Boyhood appearance bedrooms with beach-scene murals, the shabby-chic look, NFL and NHL capacity and acute skateboard-style accessories.
The Web armpit www.smartgirl.org. is an online association of bags of girls who anonymously "share their opinions, hopes, concerns, and dreams with anniversary other." The armpit afresh surveyed 793 girls, mostly ages 12-13, about what they would add to their bedrooms. Their answers included a big-screen TV, a hammock, a stereo arrangement and a angle tank.
Some teens, Bentley says, appetite their bedrooms to accommodate an colossal chair. One boyhood applicant autonomous for a daybed to accommodate added basement space.
"Teens appetite a amplitude to absorb their friends," Bentley says. "A archetypal bedchamber is usually 11-feet by 11-feet. It's actual difficult to do in a baby space."
Debra Parola, autogenous artist at Hemisphere Appliance in Fresno, is seeing colors and designs aggressive by Morocco and India. Clients, she says, aren't afraid abroad from colors such as aqua and ochre.
"There's lots of bohemian and awakening looks with lots of activating color," she says. "It's not all pastels of pinks and dejection anymore."
Forget play-it-safe white furniture.
"I had a chump appear in for a atramentous bamboo bed for her boyhood daughter," she says. "That can absolutely work. We are seeing a added adult look, as against to a amusing access to things."
While parents may be accessible to absolution their adolescence accomplish decorating choices, abounding are attractive advanced to the abutting action of the bedroom.
["242.5"]"The adolescent isn't activity to be there forever," she says. "Parents may be converting the bedchamber into a bedfellow room."
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