How to Decorate Your Bedroom

Do you want to know how to decorate your bedroom or just give it a better look?

Steps

Before you start, take this opportunity to clean the room thoroughly, while you are moving things around or emptying the room altogether. When was the last time you vacuumed under your bed? You might even want to consider shampooing the carpet. Follow these steps and you'll have a guaranteed wow-effect because you didn't know your room could be this big! It'll look better right away.
Pick a theme. If you love playing sports, put up your trophies or get a bedspread that's related to your hobby. If you love doing something else, use that as your theme. Try to keep a consistent color scheme, though. If your bedspread is purple, your curtains are green, and your walls are orange, you'll end up with a big headache, no matter how much you like the theme you've picked. For example, if you have blue walls, consider getting a white bedspread.
Decide what you want to keep and get rid of. Don't throw out things that are still good. Put them away somewhere where they won't get broken or take them to an op-shop or charity place.
Select your paint color. Make sure it is not so bright that it gives you a headache or so dark that it makes your room gloomy. Clear out your room. Paint your walls. When that is finished and dry, put all of your stuff back into the room.
Go shopping. Choose things that match with your colors and theme. Your bedspread, curtains, rugs, and throw pillows are large items that play a large part in the appearance of your room. Buy small things that you can use to decorate your desk area, too.
Make sure that you have a cupboard or chest of drawers, because if you have private things that you don't want people to see, you can hide them there.
Organize your room. Get a bookcase or a desk that slides away for storage in a smaller room. Storage goes a long way.
Draw a plan until the layout makes sense to you. This may take a while and you will get frustrated. But hey, you don't want to have a cluttered room!

Tips

Ask your parents to help you out with some of the work. Some of the things you might use could hurt you if you don't use it right.
Think about whether you'll like your theme in 2-9 years. If you'll stay in your house for a while and can't redecorate often, will you like having the theme you have now?
- Alternatively, if you go through stages, phases, or fads, choose a general theme (colors and patterns you like) and express your current obsessions with smaller things you can easily, inexpensively change. That is, don't paint the room the colors of your current favorite rock band. Paint the room colors you like and hang some posters of the rock band that you can easily change when you discover a different band.
Choose your theme first, and then work on fitting it into your budget. Don't worry if it seems too expensive; a surprising amount of bedroom items can be bought secondhand or at bargain, big-box stores.
- If you can't afford the whole project right away, you could also do a little at a time. It will make the work easier, too. Plan the whole thing out first so you know where you're going. Then, empty and paint the room if you're going to. Put the furniture back in its new locations. Then add things like bedspreads and accessories gradually, as you can afford them.
Try to reuse items you have, especially if you are on a budget. If you have a plain dresser you could paint it a different color, change the handle hardware, or place a tablecloth or runner over it to change its look. You could build a simple canopy for a bed you already have.
Your bedroom should be an expression of your own style, but if you live in your parents home, they may have the final say. Approach them with a plan, including a budget and an idea of how much you will pay and how much you would like them to pay, and be ready to negotiate.
Be artistic, especially with things you can't change. For example, if you'd like to paint your walls but your parents (or their landlord) won't allow it, see if you can hang some decorative fabric or interesting pictures there to add color and downplay that expanse of plain off-white.

Warnings

Be careful. You might not like how your room ends up looking.
Don't put so much stuff in your room that you don't have room to walk!
Don't forget that you might change your tastes soon, so don't paint your room colours that you are likely to change soon.
Ask your parents first, because they might not want you to do anything with your bedroom right away without permission.

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