Guest guest Posted June 23, 2001 Report Share Posted June 23, 2001 ...get DH to put a ring thingy up on ceiling and hang from it.... > > My DD wants a jungle theme room, so I'll be watching the other replies > too. > Caro Caro - do you mean I should hand DH up on it?!!! If only I could, however DH is a sailor at present off the islands of Bonnie Scotland! Seriously though, a good idea and one I'll put to DS tomorrow. ...But.. hanging DH from the ceiling is very tempting too.... Ruth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2001 Report Share Posted June 23, 2001 ...get DH to put a ring thingy up on ceiling and hang from it.... > > My DD wants a jungle theme room, so I'll be watching the other replies > too. > Caro Caro - do you mean I should hand DH up on it?!!! If only I could, however DH is a sailor at present off the islands of Bonnie Scotland! Seriously though, a good idea and one I'll put to DS tomorrow. ...But.. hanging DH from the ceiling is very tempting too.... Ruth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2001 Report Share Posted June 23, 2001 Ruth wrote: > Caro - do you mean I should hand DH up on it?!!! If only I could - but of course! Is he a-sailing folks round in a sail powered type of holiday sailor, and does he know Lee? Partner in crime of my youngest brother in days of yore....not sure where he sails out of though...probably Devon somewhere... And what tapestry does he do? Caro (insistent) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2001 Report Share Posted June 24, 2001 I'm glad that we are looking at decorating - DS wants me to do his room too. I have said I'll try and do it while he's on his first PGL Holiday next month (3 days only) He really wants a jungle theme. His bedroom is quite small, his bed is very old (it used to be his uncles) and is one of a pair that come together as bunks. He would like me to make it into said bunk-bed, but he wants the top bunk to be like a tree-house!! I have all sorts of ideas like painting grass/greenery on the walls, making creepers to hang things on, puting up bright pictures of parrots and butterflies, but how can I make the bed look good?? Also his carpet is blue - any ideas on how to disguise it? Looking forward to your artistic ideas! Ruth ---- I've a friends whose done her daughters room out in a jumgle theme and she had a highbed with a desk underneath, from the ceiling and draping down by the bed they have attached camouflage netting to which they have attached parrots monkeys etc looks very effective. HTH Tupman Mum to Matt 13, 10, Jonty 22 months & Phil 36 Torbay & S.Devon Branch NCT Houseswap Register Coordinator NCT UK Trustee Go placidly amidst noise and haste. Why not visit www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com Or go shopping with NCT Maternity Sales www.nctms.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2001 Report Share Posted June 25, 2001 > I just don't know whether I would be decorating it and wasting my > time as he will be 8 in September and will he outgrow the themes? > Football seems to becoming a pasion! Can't imagine me having a > football themed room. << Yes I guess this is a major problem with themed rooms - they do tend to grow out of them so quickly. We moved here 2 yrs ago and DD was then 6 and desperate for a Barbie and Fairy bedroom! Well, we eventually painted it pink (Dulux kidzone) with lilac and pink curtains and I woodstained some pine boxes lilac too but we never got around to doing the barbie/fairy stencils or borders. Good job too because at age 7 she pronounced that barbie was totally " naff " and she didn't want anything more to do with them and sold all she had at the next nearly new sale! Now age 8 she still likes fairies but has no wish to have them all round her walls. So, when DS2 (age 5) wanted a seaside theme I just painted the walls blue (again dulux kidzone) and got very nautical curtains and lampshade and also some nice coat hooks - then woodstained his pine toybox blue. This way it can all be easily changed in a few years time. Lorraine Mum to 10, Natasha 8, 5, ph 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2001 Report Share Posted June 25, 2001 > I just don't know whether I would be decorating it and wasting my > time as he will be 8 in September and will he outgrow the themes? > Football seems to becoming a pasion! Can't imagine me having a > football themed room. << Yes I guess this is a major problem with themed rooms - they do tend to grow out of them so quickly. We moved here 2 yrs ago and DD was then 6 and desperate for a Barbie and Fairy bedroom! Well, we eventually painted it pink (Dulux kidzone) with lilac and pink curtains and I woodstained some pine boxes lilac too but we never got around to doing the barbie/fairy stencils or borders. Good job too because at age 7 she pronounced that barbie was totally " naff " and she didn't want anything more to do with them and sold all she had at the next nearly new sale! Now age 8 she still likes fairies but has no wish to have them all round her walls. So, when DS2 (age 5) wanted a seaside theme I just painted the walls blue (again dulux kidzone) and got very nautical curtains and lampshade and also some nice coat hooks - then woodstained his pine toybox blue. This way it can all be easily changed in a few years time. Lorraine Mum to 10, Natasha 8, 5, ph 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2001 Report Share Posted June 25, 2001 > I just don't know whether I would be decorating it and wasting my > time as he will be 8 in September and will he outgrow the themes? > Football seems to becoming a pasion! Can't imagine me having a > football themed room. << Yes I guess this is a major problem with themed rooms - they do tend to grow out of them so quickly. We moved here 2 yrs ago and DD was then 6 and desperate for a Barbie and Fairy bedroom! Well, we eventually painted it pink (Dulux kidzone) with lilac and pink curtains and I woodstained some pine boxes lilac too but we never got around to doing the barbie/fairy stencils or borders. Good job too because at age 7 she pronounced that barbie was totally " naff " and she didn't want anything more to do with them and sold all she had at the next nearly new sale! Now age 8 she still likes fairies but has no wish to have them all round her walls. So, when DS2 (age 5) wanted a seaside theme I just painted the walls blue (again dulux kidzone) and got very nautical curtains and lampshade and also some nice coat hooks - then woodstained his pine toybox blue. This way it can all be easily changed in a few years time. Lorraine Mum to 10, Natasha 8, 5, ph 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2001 Report Share Posted June 25, 2001 All this talk is making me think I ought to decorate DS's room. We bought the house from a family that had a little girl, so the walls in his room are plain magnolia (courtesy of the original builder) with a teddy bear border. We did take down the matching curtains and replace with curtains that matched his quilt and stick arounds we brought from the old house (nursery shelf, I think the range was called). We've sort of put it off because we still have to slap greasy eczema cream on at least once a day and I do that on a changing mat on top of his chest of drawers, so the walls at that height in that area are rather greasy. The plan was to wait until he was too big to go on the mat then we could decorate without it getting wrecked by the cream again. However, for the time being it suits me to keep him up there as a) he can't run off while I'm creaming hem and its at the right height for me standing without needing to bend down. Still think he's outgrown teddy bears though, although he doesn't seem to notice. Todman Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5) Mum to , 3½ (who hasn't decorated a single room in her house since moving in 2 years ago, but then it was a brand new house that was only a year old, IYSWIM) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2001 Report Share Posted June 25, 2001 All this talk is making me think I ought to decorate DS's room. We bought the house from a family that had a little girl, so the walls in his room are plain magnolia (courtesy of the original builder) with a teddy bear border. We did take down the matching curtains and replace with curtains that matched his quilt and stick arounds we brought from the old house (nursery shelf, I think the range was called). We've sort of put it off because we still have to slap greasy eczema cream on at least once a day and I do that on a changing mat on top of his chest of drawers, so the walls at that height in that area are rather greasy. The plan was to wait until he was too big to go on the mat then we could decorate without it getting wrecked by the cream again. However, for the time being it suits me to keep him up there as a) he can't run off while I'm creaming hem and its at the right height for me standing without needing to bend down. Still think he's outgrown teddy bears though, although he doesn't seem to notice. Todman Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5) Mum to , 3½ (who hasn't decorated a single room in her house since moving in 2 years ago, but then it was a brand new house that was only a year old, IYSWIM) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2001 Report Share Posted June 25, 2001 All this talk is making me think I ought to decorate DS's room. We bought the house from a family that had a little girl, so the walls in his room are plain magnolia (courtesy of the original builder) with a teddy bear border. We did take down the matching curtains and replace with curtains that matched his quilt and stick arounds we brought from the old house (nursery shelf, I think the range was called). We've sort of put it off because we still have to slap greasy eczema cream on at least once a day and I do that on a changing mat on top of his chest of drawers, so the walls at that height in that area are rather greasy. The plan was to wait until he was too big to go on the mat then we could decorate without it getting wrecked by the cream again. However, for the time being it suits me to keep him up there as a) he can't run off while I'm creaming hem and its at the right height for me standing without needing to bend down. Still think he's outgrown teddy bears though, although he doesn't seem to notice. Todman Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5) Mum to , 3½ (who hasn't decorated a single room in her house since moving in 2 years ago, but then it was a brand new house that was only a year old, IYSWIM) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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