Red, black and white are popular color schemes in lots of different bedding fabric patterns, but now I'm seeing black and white checks intermingled with lucious red cherries! Who would've ever dreamed that fruit print fabrics would migrate from kitchens to teen bedding? Any ideas on how to work with fruity teenage bedroom decorations?
Is the tropical headdress of the Copa Cabana coming back? Will we be decorating with bowls of bananas, grapes and cherries? Strange and just a little disturbing. I was always taught not to take food out of the kitchen!
COOL and COMFORTABLE COLLEGE DORM BEDDING and FURNITURE
Seems like yesterday that you had a pretty preteen. Then sassy lady hit her teens and now you are gathering dorm room bedding and furniture. How exciting...but scary and disturbing at the same time.
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What's the best kind of bedding to get for a college dorm room? Dorm room bedding should be easy to clean and as gross as it sounds; the fabric shouldn't show stains. She's going to wag it home every weekend in the duffle bag with the other stuff that got nasty through the week but there could be several days between the spilled salsa and a trip home. Cheap bedding and comforters for teens come in great colors, patterns and designs so if the coverlet doesn't make it through Christmas vacation, no sweat.
College dorm furniture should have the same qualities as the bedding sets we recommended: cheap, indestructible and capable of hiding a few mistakes in judgement.
Here are some comfortable ottomans or floor cushions that will make the college dorm seem like home. A cute little happy going away to college gift would be if you sent these little pretties through the mail with a note saying that you are sending her "LOVE AND KISSES"....and a place to sit other than on the bed!
This ottoman cover strips right off for a quick trip home to be run through the laundry.
Get it? The heart shaped ottoman is for the love you are sending your college freshman and the ottoman shaped like lips is for kisses from the folks at home!
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What's the best kind of bedding to get for a college dorm room? Dorm room bedding should be easy to clean and as gross as it sounds; the fabric shouldn't show stains. She's going to wag it home every weekend in the duffle bag with the other stuff that got nasty through the week but there could be several days between the spilled salsa and a trip home. Cheap bedding and comforters for teens come in great colors, patterns and designs so if the coverlet doesn't make it through Christmas vacation, no sweat.
College dorm furniture should have the same qualities as the bedding sets we recommended: cheap, indestructible and capable of hiding a few mistakes in judgement.
Here are some comfortable ottomans or floor cushions that will make the college dorm seem like home. A cute little happy going away to college gift would be if you sent these little pretties through the mail with a note saying that you are sending her "LOVE AND KISSES"....and a place to sit other than on the bed!
This ottoman cover strips right off for a quick trip home to be run through the laundry.
Get it? The heart shaped ottoman is for the love you are sending your college freshman and the ottoman shaped like lips is for kisses from the folks at home!
Return to Teen Girls COLLEGE DORM BEDDING and FURNITURE for tips on sending your daughter off to school in style.
FUNKY PURPLE and ORANGE TEENAGE ROOM DECORATING PICTURES
The bedding in these FUNKY PURPLE and ORANGE TEENAGE ROOM DECORATING PICTURES are funky, furry and almost too cool for mom to share with her teens. Tell me how you adore all these super wild colors. Sure, it's hot right now but those young girls are going to be decorating their dorms and bedrooms soon and the funky teen girls bedding sets in these pictures are going to be the inspiration for more than a few of my own bedroom decorating ideas!
PAISLEY PATTERNS, DESIGNS and PRINTS for your HOME
Paisley print fabrics are one of those designs that just don't ever go out of style. The colors and patterns change with the times so that there's always a stylish paisley print that looks fresh and modern.
Some cool decorating ideas for this funky set of teen bedding would be to get a lime green, hot pink or orange faux fur rug for the bed side and stencil some paisley patterns in coordinating paint colors on the walls in a similar grouping to the one on the bedding fabric.
If you are really aggressive and like a challenge, use a striping paint technique on the walls to match the dust ruffle!
Each new generation seems to thing that they came up with paisley. The hippie crowd in the 60s did paisley along with tie-dye and the 70s mixed it up with disco glam. In the 80s and 90s paisley designs took a more starched, dignified form. Now here we are in the new millenium with cool paisley prints showing up in teen's bedrooms as well as their purses. Paisley and polka dot wallets, coin purses as well as paisley bandanas and sheets are considered so very cool this fall. Paisley patterns are pretty classic , but the colors! WOW! Bright oranges are combined with shades of turquoise blue and purple for a brilliant display of traditional fall colors gone wild!
If your tween's bedroom has an adjoining bathroom, decorate the bathroom with paisley print towels, shower curtains and other bath accessories like these! Return to Tween and Teenage Girls Paisley Pattern Bedding and Bedroom Decorating Ideas
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Some cool decorating ideas for this funky set of teen bedding would be to get a lime green, hot pink or orange faux fur rug for the bed side and stencil some paisley patterns in coordinating paint colors on the walls in a similar grouping to the one on the bedding fabric.
If you are really aggressive and like a challenge, use a striping paint technique on the walls to match the dust ruffle!
Each new generation seems to thing that they came up with paisley. The hippie crowd in the 60s did paisley along with tie-dye and the 70s mixed it up with disco glam. In the 80s and 90s paisley designs took a more starched, dignified form. Now here we are in the new millenium with cool paisley prints showing up in teen's bedrooms as well as their purses. Paisley and polka dot wallets, coin purses as well as paisley bandanas and sheets are considered so very cool this fall. Paisley patterns are pretty classic , but the colors! WOW! Bright oranges are combined with shades of turquoise blue and purple for a brilliant display of traditional fall colors gone wild!
If your tween's bedroom has an adjoining bathroom, decorate the bathroom with paisley print towels, shower curtains and other bath accessories like these! Return to Tween and Teenage Girls Paisley Pattern Bedding and Bedroom Decorating Ideas
COOL PINK LEOPARD PRINT STUFF
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Here are some decorating ideas and ways to update existing furniture for a teen girl's bedding or bedroom with pink leopard print. Pink leopard comforters make a pretty large decorative footprint in room and you have to be pretty imaginative on ways to carry your wild animal print around the room without things getting out of hand. Here are some really cute pink leopard print decorative accessories and gifts that should soothe your teen's need for a walk on the wild side.
Get a special wooden personalized wall hanging with your tween's name cut out and painted with a leopard pattern in any color you choose. Keep reading for wall painting ideas and suggestions for this cool bedroom that's being decorated and accessorized right before your eyes!
Pink leopard drawer pulls could help put the finishing touch on a quick, cheap and easy makeover for a plain old dresser or makeup table. If you have a stained wooden piece of bedroom furniture you can instantly transform it into a perfect piece of pink leopard theme furniture specifically designated for a spot in this funky animal print room!
A pink leopard area rug would be very cute if you prefer your pink leopard print on the floor rather than displayed in your little diva's bedding or comforter sets.
I suppose you could paint your walls in a leopard pattern if you're a pro with a paint brush, but I would like for you to try another wall painting idea that works well in any bedroom, but will be spectacular in this teenagers posh pink dream room. If you are really feeling adventurous, mix and match leopard spots with zebra stripes and see how much a unique pattern mix can do for a bedroom!
Paint your wall in a shade of pale brown to match the fabric print on your comforter. Using a chalk line, draw off equally spaced diamonds and paint them in a pale pink paint color to match your pink leopard print. The diamonds give a welcome break in the wild animal action yet allow you to stay in the same color family.
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EXOTIC TEEN GIRLS BEDDING and BEDROOM DECORATING IDEAS
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A theme in shopping in any of the online stores or websites that specialize in contemporary teen bedding and accessories you know that they equate funky prints with an expensive price tag. There's lots of places that you can buy cheap comforters and duvet covers but will your teen think that it looks cool, funky and stylish enough for her to show off to her friends? One decorating trend for older girl's bedrooms has been to use very bright and colorful print fabrics for the bedding and then to calm it down with statues of Buddha and other vintage bronzes.
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Here are some tips and ideas on how to make your teenage girl's bedroom as trendy as she wants with a price tag that much less expensive than you might expect.
1. Sit down with your teenage girl and get her to show you what she likes either in a catalog or in one of the online stores. Turn down the pages with the pictures or bookmark the pages with the pictures of completely decorated bedrooms that tickle her fancy.
2. Discuss fabrics. Does she like sleek and shiny silk and satin fabrics or does she prefer rustic and nubby textures? Will you need something that's easily washable or is your teen ticky and capable of dealing with a high maintenance duvet cover that's made from fabric that might be ruined if her friends smear onion dip on it?
3. Take note of basic color schemes that she seems to favor. Could it be that one will work with the current wall color? If you don't have to pick out new wall paint colors, that's a bargain!
Now, check out the discount bedding sites or shop the closeout sales for discontinued bedding collections. Don't waste time searching for bedding sets for teens, they are few and far between. A more beneficial use of your time would be to see what's available at discounted prices and see what could be done to make them appealing to older girls. Take note of decorating ideas that you could use with each set and how expensive it will be to put them to work in the room that you are decorating.
For example look at pictures of the average set of paisley bedding. Most have lots of browns, shades of camel tan and burgundy or blue.
At first glance it would only appeal to an older person, right? Ok, now imagine that set of bedding with bright orange, red and cobalt blue silk, satin or even leather throw pillows. An Indian throw with sequins that's been embroidered in wild colors thrown over the foot of the bed would liven things up as well as a dust ruffle in a coordinating, but eclectic print and you'd need to replace that stodgy canopy and header with something right out of the latest Bratz movie or off the set of DeGrassi, too. Fringe is cool, so check out some bolts of purple or turquoise to see if they would work while you're in the notions section of the discount store.
Decorative accessories can be a large bronze colored Buddha, Indian elephant end tables and brass lamps!
A sculpture of Buddha brings a sense of peace and calm and is the perfect decorative balance to your psychedelic bedding design as well as coordinating with the boring brown print that you started with.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
I'm not sure exactly when my obsession with Mikhail Baryshnikov started but I'm pretty sure it was sometime in high school. I took ballet classes very briefly as a small child, as most little girls do, but that was it. I was not and am not a dancer myself, but I have always loved everything about the dance world: its grace, its beauty, its strength, its magic. The classical ballets were my favorites: Giselle, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker. I fell for Baryshnikov after discovering the movie The Turning Point. He was just so gorgeous and no one danced like him: great flying leaps where he seemed to hang in the air longer then seemed natural like some freaky ballet superhero!
My dream of seeing Baryshnikov dance live came true when I was nineteen. He was peforming with his White Oak Dance Project at UNLV's Ham Hall. The day before the show I got horribly sick with a virus, and ended up at the performance with a high fever. My boyfriend at the time went with me to the show and he was actually very sweet and took care of me during the performance, making sure I was awake whenever Misha was on stage, because I was so sick with fever I would kind of doze off in my seat. Suffice to say, I don't remember that much about it. I do remember Misha doing this little like golf routine, very cute and quite funny.
Anyway, I was so excited when I saw that Baryshnikov's new Hell's Kitchen Dance Project would be performing in Reno as part of their month long arts festival Artown. My dear friend Amy, who lives in Reno, was a ballet dancer when she was young and I knew she'd be thrilled if I came up so we could go to the show together. It was incredible. The Pioneer Center in downtown Reno is quite small, and we had amazing seats about 10 rows back from the stage so could see everything perfectly. The minute Baryshnikov walked out on stage the entire room kind of gasped and then held it's breath in anticipatory unison. The first dance was called “Years Later” and on a huge screen at the back of the stage they showed footage of a very young dancing Baryshnikov and then our present day live Baryshnikov danced along with the footage. There was a light in the very front of the stage so that it projected his shadow on the screen, and he could move up or downstage to make the shadow bigger or smaller so that there were sometimes three Baryshnikovs dancing: the young one onscreen, the 59 year old live one, and his shadow. It was quite touching, and even a little bit sad. The onscreen Baryshnikov was the young strong dancer, doing all his great jumps and leaps that the now older Baryshnikov has a hard time doing. He would even make fun of himself and laugh along with the audience as he bent over holding his back like an old man, throwing his hands up in the air like he won’t even try to keep up with his young self anymore. Baryshnikov is so humorous and down to Earth - it's really refreshing and interesting considering how superhuman he truly is. The final dance featured Baryshnikov again along with the dozen or so young dancers in his hand picked company. It was wonderful but again quite touching and sad, a passing of the torch kind of thing. He would dance with them, but also watch them in amazement and with a bit of nostalgia and regret in his posture and demeanor. You knew he was envying their youth. And then it's not like Baryshnikov blends in with these dancers. It's very obvious: there's freaking Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing onstage, 30 years older than all of the other dancers, and although some of them are excellent, they will never be as good as he was and still is. But this dance titled “Come In” was like Baryshnikov inviting them to give it a damn good try. All in all, it was a great experience getting to see him before he stops dancing altogether, something I will always cherish. Clumsy old desert rat me got to experience the greatest dancer that ever lived, Mikhail Baryshnikov, live in person, not once, but twice.
My dream of seeing Baryshnikov dance live came true when I was nineteen. He was peforming with his White Oak Dance Project at UNLV's Ham Hall. The day before the show I got horribly sick with a virus, and ended up at the performance with a high fever. My boyfriend at the time went with me to the show and he was actually very sweet and took care of me during the performance, making sure I was awake whenever Misha was on stage, because I was so sick with fever I would kind of doze off in my seat. Suffice to say, I don't remember that much about it. I do remember Misha doing this little like golf routine, very cute and quite funny.
Anyway, I was so excited when I saw that Baryshnikov's new Hell's Kitchen Dance Project would be performing in Reno as part of their month long arts festival Artown. My dear friend Amy, who lives in Reno, was a ballet dancer when she was young and I knew she'd be thrilled if I came up so we could go to the show together. It was incredible. The Pioneer Center in downtown Reno is quite small, and we had amazing seats about 10 rows back from the stage so could see everything perfectly. The minute Baryshnikov walked out on stage the entire room kind of gasped and then held it's breath in anticipatory unison. The first dance was called “Years Later” and on a huge screen at the back of the stage they showed footage of a very young dancing Baryshnikov and then our present day live Baryshnikov danced along with the footage. There was a light in the very front of the stage so that it projected his shadow on the screen, and he could move up or downstage to make the shadow bigger or smaller so that there were sometimes three Baryshnikovs dancing: the young one onscreen, the 59 year old live one, and his shadow. It was quite touching, and even a little bit sad. The onscreen Baryshnikov was the young strong dancer, doing all his great jumps and leaps that the now older Baryshnikov has a hard time doing. He would even make fun of himself and laugh along with the audience as he bent over holding his back like an old man, throwing his hands up in the air like he won’t even try to keep up with his young self anymore. Baryshnikov is so humorous and down to Earth - it's really refreshing and interesting considering how superhuman he truly is. The final dance featured Baryshnikov again along with the dozen or so young dancers in his hand picked company. It was wonderful but again quite touching and sad, a passing of the torch kind of thing. He would dance with them, but also watch them in amazement and with a bit of nostalgia and regret in his posture and demeanor. You knew he was envying their youth. And then it's not like Baryshnikov blends in with these dancers. It's very obvious: there's freaking Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing onstage, 30 years older than all of the other dancers, and although some of them are excellent, they will never be as good as he was and still is. But this dance titled “Come In” was like Baryshnikov inviting them to give it a damn good try. All in all, it was a great experience getting to see him before he stops dancing altogether, something I will always cherish. Clumsy old desert rat me got to experience the greatest dancer that ever lived, Mikhail Baryshnikov, live in person, not once, but twice.
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