Is your teen bedroom in need of a modern makeover? If you’re tired of looking at the same old pastel colored wallpaper and stuffed animals staring at you from the end of your bed? Would you love a funky and modern teen room that looks like it has came straight out of an Ikea magazine? Read on for an easy way to do this!

How to Create a Funky and Modern Teen Room

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Steps

1. Clear out your room. Sort all of your stuff into five piles; Keep, Sell, Recycle, Toss, or Donate. After you’ve sorted everything, take all of your old toys and donate them to a charity; they could really make a child happy. If you have old clothes, hand them down to a younger sibling or family member, or simply give them to charity. If you have old game consoles or CDs, try selling them on Ebay or at a garage sale.
2. Look at your current furniture. Can you refurbish them by painting them? Make sure your room has enough storage for all your clothes and other bits, and if it doesn’t, buy a wardrobe or chest of drawers. Make sure all your furniture colours match.
3. Paint your room! Pick a colour or two that you like and paint your walls that colour. If you want, buy some funky wallpaper for one wall. This will be your feature wall (it’s usally the wall that your headboard will be on). Make sure that the wallpaper isn’t too dark and that it has a bold pattern on it, such as damask. If you don’t want to use wallpaper, simply paint your room or hire a painter to paint it for you.
4. Take a look at your floor. Is it carpeted, or wooden? If your carpet is a really horrid colour and doesn’t match your room, mask it with a funky rug. If you have enough money to get the floor re-done, try wooden flooring with a bright rug.
5. Move your furniture back in, and move it around until it looks right. Simply moving your furniture around can make a huge difference in a bedroom!
6. Add a personal teen touch! Add some beanbag chairs, mirrors, cool lamps, toss pillows, and whatever else to your room to make it cool, comfortable, and very funky. Add some photos of you and your friends, family, or pets to personalize your room.
7. Put all of your stuff back into your room. Make sure to have enough storage space for it all, as well as space to display all of your stuff. Cool shelves are a great thing to have in your bedroom.
8. Don’t forget the bedding! If you like your current bedding, keep it, but if not, buy a new set! Bright, vibrant colours or cool patterns on bedspreads are really modern and funky. Make sure that it all matches your room!
9. Get some lighting. A good idea is to usually have 2 sources of lighting in your room. You should have a main source of lighting, such as a chandelier, a floor lamp, or a light attached to your ceiling. You should also have a desk lamp so that if you want to keep the lighting low, you can only have your desk lamp on, or it gives you extra light if you need it. Lighting really sets the mood in your room, so keep that it mind!

Tips

• Get parental permission before doing anything!
• Try stripes on your feature wall. Horizontal ones make a room look bigger, and vertical make your ceiling appear higher.
• Try to be really independent with this. Decorate your room the way you want it. Save up your own money for items for your bedroom. Be responsible and mature about it. Your parents will be impressed with you.
• Always remember that this is YOUR room! Decorate it how you want it, not how someone else wants.

Warnings

• When moving furniture, make sure a strong adult helps.
• Only paint your walls and furniture if your parents say so.
• Wallpaper can be really hard to take down, so if you use it, make sure it’s a pattern that you like.

Things You’ll Need

• Paint
• Funky items
• Cool bedding
• Some wallpaper
• Parental permission!

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