Terrific Teen Rooms

Teenagers are noto­ri­ously hard to please, and dec­o­rat­ing teen rooms can be quite a task. A teenager’s room is his/her sanc­tu­ary; where they spend copi­ous amounts of time doing “what­ever” – a word which gives me goose­bumps to this day. With the girls now both into their twen­ties and hav­ing over­come their unkempt days, I found myself hav­ing to do another teenager room. This time for our son Dae­gan. Thank­fully he’s isn’t quite as finicky as the girls were!

 

A teenager’s room is more than a bed­room. They will want space for a desk, and some­where to lounge around and an enter­tain­ing space too. So you’ll need to make the most of every cen­time­tre of floor­space. With a loft bed, your teen can sleep on the top-level, leav­ing room for a desk or seat­ing below.

At this age, all the colour and pat­tern move off the bed and onto the wall. Replace the bed sets with more neu­tral linen or a nice stripe and encour­age your teenager to choose some­thing dec­o­ra­tive for the walls – or bet­ter still, get them to cre­ate some­thing. They can hang a work of art, graphic decals or apply an adven­tur­ous paint colour.