Teenage Dream { Girls’ Room DIY }

Teenagers are renowned for not only wanting space, but needing a space to call their own. While redecorating can be expensive, a couple of DIY tricks can give your teenage daughter the room she’s always dreamed of, without shooting your budget in the foot:

• Turn a simple string of fairy lights into a flower chain, by simply cutting a small hole in the bottom of a paper cupcake cup and slipping it over each little light.
• We’re always painting the wall and ceiling, but what about the door? Allow her to paint all kinds of shapes and patterns on the bedroom door.
• Get glittery! From cell phone chargers and wooden laser cutouts, to lampshades and light switch cover – cover it all in glitter!
• Buy an affordable mosquito net and suspend it from a hook above the bed, for an instant fairytale bed.
• Make bunting out of old scraps of fabric, and use it to decorate the walls or act as make-shift headboard.
• Scour secondhand shops for clothing rails to give her room a fashionable “runway” feel.
• Magnets are ideal for organising the little things – for instance, stick a magnetic strip to the wall to hold hair pins, or frame a sheet of metal and stick magnets on the back of her make-up for easy storage.
• Every teenager needs a pin board! This will also save the walls from prestik marks.
• Give an old dresser a makeover with a simple lick of paint and some vinyl stickers.
• Coat one wall in a layer of chalkboard paint so she can really express herself.

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