Tips on Improving a Bedroom

There's a good chance that when you purchased your home, however long ago it may have been, the walls in all or most of the bedrooms were painted white or off white. After a while, all white walls begin to look pretty boring. One of the easiest and least expensive ways to improve a bedroom is to decorate it using a theme, which usually means adding color to the walls.

Adding color to the walls doesn't mean they have to be painted. For example, you can use wallpaper on the lower half of the walls with a border in the middle used to separate the upper half of the walls from the lower half. The kids' room in a friend's house was designed around trucks theme with exactly that type of design. The bedroom walls were first painted a light sky blue, then the lower half was covered with wallpaper with trucks emblazoned across it, and finally the two were separated by a border featuring big yellow trucks.

Decorating the walls in this particular bedroom was only the starting point. Because the room was designed as a place for children to play while their parents visited with their friends, a toy box full of trucks was provided for them. In addition, books, toys, and pictures of trucks were sprinkled throughout the room. Finally, a children's bunk bed set was used and was covered with none other than matching bedspreads.

For the master bedroom, while a theme can be used, the method should be centered more around the furnishings than decorating the walls with wallpaper and border. That's not to say that you shouldn't add color to them, but rather to say you should focus more on the furniture in the room.

Purchase a bedroom set with all matching pieces that will complement the furnishings in the rest of your home. Whatever you do, don't mix and match the bedroom furniture. For example, you may have bought a bed ten years ago, and then added a night stand five years later that your Aunt Marie gave you. And still later, you added a dresser from the nineteenth century you picked up at an antique auction. I know, I know. You really love all those pieces and you can't bear to part with them. I suggest placing them somewhere else and spending the money on a complete set that not only matches, but will also tie in with the rest of the furniture in your home.