DECORATING WITH ASIAN COMFORTERS in BLACK AND WHITE to AVOID CLASHING

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Asian comforters are now seen on the market in every color in the rainbow from purple to pink. If the Oriental symbols were missing, it would be very hard to tell they were Asian inspired at all!

Traditionally we have seen them in Chinese red, black and gold with occasional fire breathing dragon designs that might call for the use of some emerald green in the color scheme. For those that are not into a broad range of colors in their bedroom or that might have difficulties blending their existing palette with colorful bedding sets, there are monochromatic black and white Asian bedding sets with Asian comforters that might fit right in without having a major decorating challenge on your hands.



The black and white print fabrics will look fantastic with any number of bold colors that will break away from the classic style in a big way that teenage girls will adore. Purple, hot pink, bright yellow or even orange in a combination with Asian comforters and bedding sets in black and white will give the Oriental style of decor a modern look. Teens and tweens love to feel that they are capable of rebelling and giving old fashioned looks that may be mom’s favorite a kick in the pants.

Decorating bedrooms for teenage girls often requires compromise. At times the compromises may be more than a mother is comfortable with and may require all of the negotiating techniques she can muster. I would make the suggestion that if you and your darling daughter are butting heads over an acceptable bedroom theme, perhaps you could make the concession to allow her to do something funky and unusual with the accent colors. If you bend a little, she may be okay with your idea of using the best
Asian comforters
that are in an affordable price range.

WALL PAINT

If you get your way with the Asian style bedding; let her pick the wall paint color. If the color that she selects is too weird to swallow, get ready to make another compromise. See if it would be acceptable to paint three of the walls in a neutral color that you can tolerate and paint the fourth wall in the color that she loves. Never balk outright. Perhaps the worst possible reaction would be to criticize or seem shocked at her lack of good taste. It would be much more to your advantage to reassure her that her Asian decorating ideas are good but that too much of a good thing waters down the desired effect.

FURNITURE

This is where you begin to see the wisdom in choosing Asian comforters. Even the most basic, boring wooden dresser becomes fabulous and fits well in this bedroom design after being sanded down and painted with black enamel paint. Add some Oriental drawer pulls to your now Oriental style high chest of drawers and dresser and you have just saved a ton of money yet managed to get an expensive look with an inexpensive Asian comforter and a little bit of diplomacy and decorative skill.

EASY ORIENTAL PLATFORM BED

To bring the bed in line with the rest of your Oriental bedroom decor, you can have a carpenter make a wooden platform that is little more than a box to serve as inexpensive bed frames. You can have a custom made Oriental platform bed made to fit your mattress from twin to king size ready in a day for an extremely cheap price compared to buying one of the fancy tiered beds in a furniture store.

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HANNAH MONTANA BEDROOM WALL HANGINGS and DECORATING IDEAS

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I expect any day for my toddler to look up and say she wants a Hannah Montana bedroom. Even at four she’s not immune to the appeal of cute teen idols and their product lines that might include anything from wall hangings and lamp shades to bedroom slippers.

Knowing that I don’t have much time left where Tinkerbell fairies are my girls’ favorite wall decoration, my research has begun on Hannah Montana decorations and décor. I’m sure that other mothers searching for the perfect birthday or Christmas gift for their teenage girls will be interested in the cool new Hannah Montana stuff that I found that make perfect presents and will be easy to use when decorating that special Hannah Montana theme bedroom.

GIANT HANNAH MONTANA WALLPAPER DECALS

No need to shop till you drop when you can fill a world of wall space by simply hanging life size, removable wall stickers. The wallpaper cut outs feature a head to toe picture of none other than Hannah herself wearing a pair of hip, gold wedge heels and gold lame jacket as well as a smaller image of her wearing jeans and red spike heels. The set comes with several more colorful stickers including:

• “HANNAH’s” name spelled in big letters on a sign to hang on the wall over your teen or tween’s bed
• A Hannah Montana guitar decal with two purple guitars with a hot pink butterfly floating over them
• An extra pic of Hannah’s electric guitar with cool graphics decorating the body of the guitar as well as the area below the main image

HANNAH MONTANA BEDROOM DECORATIONS, BEDDING and COMFORTER SETS

What Hannah Montana bedroom would be complete without a set of bedding for your preteens to giggle (and spill stuff?) on? If you like the wallpaper cut outs we picked out for you, you are in luck! There are funky purple and lavender sets that will match the wall hangings to perfection.

HANNAH MONTANA RUGS

If you have enough pictures of her on the walls, use guitars or go for fluffy, faux fur on the floors.

IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP!

Here’s a Hannah Montana bedroom decorating idea that moms will love; one that might help her get her teenage girl out of bed in the morning! Official guitar wall clocks or alarm clocks that fall in line with the rest of your teen idol décor.

This collection of cute stuff is almost enough to keep us from being sad at seeing our girls growing up and entering the teeny bopper stage!

The Stills, We Are Scientists, Kings of Leon - Woot!

I went to this show last weekend with Kate, Shanda, and Chris. First off, I call bullshit that The Stills played first! No offense to you We Are Scientists fans out there, but I prefer The Stills! They only played for half an hour!!! Booo! I despair that The Stills will ever grow a big enough fanbase to headline a show in Vegas. I've seen them twice now and both times, they opened for Kings of Leon. Oh well, what are you gonna do?

The show was sold out so getting a cocktail was difficult. When We Are Scientists started their set I decided now would be a good time to hit the bar. I was wrong. I waited in line for half an hour. Two thirds of their set! So then when I did make it to the bar, I had to buy two cocktails and be a double fisting lush for a while, because there was no way I was ever getting back in that line again.

Right before Kings of Leon came on I made a quick jaunt to the bathroom and had a really fun, surreal trip back. First outside the bathroom, about to get on the elevator to the VIP section, there was The Stills! I praised them and voiced my disappointment in their short set, telling them to come back soon and headline. Tim Fletcher seemed appreciative despite that fact that this drunk redheaded girl is just yelling in their faces, and he thanked me! So then I dash back inside the venue and am picking my way through the crowd, when I bump into this guy, and we do that dancey thing where he tries to go one way around me but that's the same way I try to go, so then we both try to go the other way - you know. I look up at him and realize that it's Jason Sudeikis of Saturday Night Live! He looks at me too and he sees the recognition break over my face so he pre-emptively smiles and says, "Hi!" with this little wave of his hand. I ridiculously laugh "HA! HA!" in his face and then we both finally move on and away from each other. Pretty cool, huh? But then I got to thinking. . .hey, it's Saturday night, and it's about 10:45pm, shouldn't he BE somewhere??? It's Saturday Night Live isn't it??? Well my questions were answered when I got home later that night and Phillip told me that SNL had been a rerun.

Kings of Leon went on soon after that madness and they were rocking. I've seen them live three times now and they are always really tight, and have lots of energy, which infuses the crowd with energy. Plus it was sold out which always helps. Vegas crowds can be hit or miss. Vampire Weekend's audience sucked. This one was awesome. Lots of group sing alongs and noise and smiles. It's been interesting seeing KOL evolve as a band too. The first time I saw them they were all long haired, skinny jeans and t-shirt wearing Southern boys. Now they are super glammy leather jacket wearing rock stars. Only Nathan still sports the long hair. Mmmmm, Followills. They are all pretty hunky.

After the show we met up with some other people at Griffin. Not much went on there except I inadvertently insulted Chris Cook when we were observing the beginning of a menage: two girls on either side of a dude, getting frisky. I was looking at them and before I could stop myself, I said to Chris, "That guy isn't even that good looking, so there's some hope for you in scoring two chicks!" It was a zinger that could have hit anybody, Chris just happened to be next to me! I apologized, but he didn't care. Chris is my friend, he's cool. He was actually a little bit proud of the funny I made.

DELIGHTFUL DECORATIVE TREE DRAWINGS

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Never underestimate the effect that natural subjects such as these tree drawings can have on your decor. Once you have the bare bones of the design drawn in detail on the bedroom wall, the options open to you are virtually endless. Properly placed, the drawing can successfully stand alone as a visual focal point that serves the purpose of bringing a feeling of openness into the room.






Simple drawings of a tree can be embellished to include elaborate frames strategically placed on the tips of the branches that can be used in various ways depending on your kids' age or interests. You might use the frames as a spot to insert details pertaining to our ancestors which will transform our artwork into a custom family tree that might encourage research into the family's roots. A teenage girl that's not into genealogy might prefer to decorate the frames of her tree drawings with pictures of her friends or her favorite rock star.

LEAVES

Whether your tree drawings should have leaves or not is entirely up to you. However, I would suggest that if you decide to include drawings of leaves on your tree that you don't go wild with numbers. If you follow the example of the lovely wall that has been decorated with a tree drawing on this page, you will see that less is certainly more. The delicate design of this painting left room for birds, cherry blossoms as well as framed artwork or painted frames if you so wish.


NO LEAVES

Some might think bare limbs and tree trunks look too stark or make the room seem too chilly. But I have to admit that leafless tree drawings are my favorites. They add no clutter to the bedroom's design and are much more versatile than more detailed drawings. You could experiment with the plain version before practicing your leaf drawings. Who knows, you may come to appreciate the simplicity and atmosphere that the trees of winter create.

SIMPLE DRAWINGS OF TREES

When just starting out, keep it simple. You can use tree wall decals and tree drawings as a combination if you feel that your skills won't carry you beyond a basic design. Used properly, the results can be an interesting, sophisticated wall mural that will give you many hours of pleasure.


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THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS BEDDING SETS

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The Nightmare before Christmas bedding sets are not just for Halloween. These unique comforter sets seem to have the same cult following as the movie and are being used to decorate teenage bedrooms for the entire year much to the dismay of many mothers and fathers. But what can we expect when celebrities are buying up the crib sets for their babies? Should it be a surprise when teenage girls want to decorate their bedrooms with the spooky but charming cartoon characters from the movie when their idols have issued their stamp of approval?


If your teenage girl is having a fit to give her bedroom a makeover in this theme; go for it. When it comes to the style of bedroom that young girls choose my motto is to give them what they want and choose another battle worth winning.
My advice is to make the compromise and pick up some inexpensive Nightmare Before Christmas bedding. Bed in a bag sets are cheap if you can find them. If you can’t find an officially licensed collection, a generic black and white gothic comforter set will blend nicely with your daughter’s bedroom wall arrangement of Nightmare before Christmas art pictures and posters.


When it comes to the style of bedroom that young girls choose my motto is to give them what they want. So what if they push the limits of what is traditional from time to time?

However, if the idea of your teenage girl decorating her bedroom in a style that is, in your opinion, more appropriate for the background of a Halloween party is too appalling to consider you may be able to compromise with a throw blanket that she can wrap up in to watch her DVD rather than a complete set of Nightmare Before Christmas bedding. Another idea might be to decorate the bedroom in a mutually acceptable style with a comforter set of your choosing but allow her to have a set of nightmare before Christmas sheets that is easily camouflaged on those days when Sally and Jack Bones may not be welcome like when the grandparents are in the house for a visit.


The upside is that a set of Nightmare before Christmas twin bedding is not expensive. Even the sets in queen and kind size are relatively inexpensive at less than $100 to $150 so go ahead and join in the fun and start making the bed that will make your kids happy. In the bigger scheme of things, it’s not a big deal and even the girls who want the darkest of gothic bedroom designs more onto more traditional styles of decor sooner or later.

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NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS ART

It has been reported that Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is a fan of Nightmare Before Christmas art. Rumor has it that she and her husband may be designing a room for there baby using the artwork as the foundation for their decor based on the theme of their wedding and reception.


The cool colors and images in the Nightmare Before Christmas art prints and movie posters that Ashlee Simpson is reported to like are enough to inspire a teenage girl to decorate her bedroom with bedding sets and decorations to compliment the unique graphics. Sally Nightmare Before Christmas posters are a particular favorite of young girls.

If your teen gets a kick out of decorating her bedroom for every season or holiday that rolls around, you might want to take a look at some of the unique merchandise and collectibles in this product line as it would cover the entire season between Halloween and Christmas.


NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS ART

Buy the whole set of four at a discount if your teenage girl’s bedroom is large enough and has enough wall space for a collection of large posters and prints. The colorful layout of the artwork eliminates the need for expensive, elaborate picture frames. If your girl's bedroom has plenty of floor space, you might want to pick up some of the Nightmare Before Christmas merchadise like promotional cardboard standups that are certain to become valuable collectibles. You could also use these decorative items to decorate for a Halloween party in a pinch.

A plain, black poster frame will be all that’s required to showcase these unusual movie collectibles that may appreciate in value. That’s the beauty of using vintage movie posters as a decorative centerpiece for your kid’s bedroom decor; they just might gain in value.

Let that be a reminder to you not to toss your Nightmare Before Christmas artwork in the trash when your tween wants a bedroom makeover when she hits her teenage years. When another blockbuster movie hits the theater that takes the place of this one, carefully roll the pictures and store them in acid free tubes to preserve the vivid color of the graphics. That way your Nightmare Before Christmas pictures will be perfect when you realize they are selling for premium prices on Ebay some day in the distant future.

Meanwhile, pick up some matching wallpaper, a Nightmare Before Christmas bedding, the soundtrack and a DVD of the film and join in the fun. Let your daughter enjoy her goth bedroom that’s decorated like a graveyard for a while, secure in the knowledge that this too shall pass.

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PURPLE GIRLS BEDDING and COMFORTER SETS

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Purple brings out the diva in us all. We are seeing purple baby girl crib bedding sets as well as purple girls bedding for tweens and teenage girls. Chicks of all ages love the look of luxury and drama that this shade once limited to royalty brings to their bedrooms. Once limited to deep, dark shades of purple that were closer to a combination of black and plum, comforters now come in lighter shades, prints and styles that are much more appropriate for young girls than sexy silks and satins that are hard to clean and even harder for some mothers to accept.

LIGHTEN IT UP!
Moms don't like to see their little girls rushing into early maturity. What can be done to keep the decor in the bedroom from looking too old for a teenage girl when she has her heart set on a set of purple girls bedding and nothing else will do? Here are some decorating ideas that will get your daughter the color scheme that she wants while maintaining a teenage atmosphere in the room. Decorating with patchwork quilts and ruffles are also excellent ways to keep things from looking too sexy.

• Pick up a set of tween bedding in purple that's been printed with cute pictures of dragonflies, butterflies, ponies or a funky flower print fabric.
  
  
• Buy purple bedding in green, purple, pink and other colors that will lighten the darker tones.
  
  
• Skip the polyester fabrics that look like silk or satin for cotton or even faux fur
  
  
• Purchase an inexpensive purple girls bedding or bed in a bag sets that has various fabric patterns coordinated for you. Stripes, paisley prints and polka dots in bright colors with a purple background are considered to be very fashionable and trendy with the teenage set and college girls alike.
  
  

Purple is a luxurious, sexy color so it's understandable that we have shied away from using it in teen bedroom decor. However, modern purple queen bedding sets with cool patterns and prints are full of fun and the potential decorating ideas are virtually endless.

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