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06 Ways To Do Your Room

Chinese take-out
Colors: black, red and white
Walls: Paint them a light red or cream color
Furniture: Rod-iron furniture or white with black hardware. Low furniture is great for this too.
Bedding: Any funky chinese themed bedspread you find is fine, or you could do white comferter with red and black pillows.
Accents: Airy curtians, lots and lots of candles, bamboo frames, paper lanterns, stuffed panda bears, and plants (bamboo plants work).
Do it yourself: Take some chopsticks (or some of those hair chopsticks if you can't find anything you like) and superglue them to a piece of painted cardboard in whatever position you like. Take some bamboo sticks and glue them around the edges of the cardboard, two sticks per side and ta-da a frame!

Hawaian Retreat
Colors: greens, blues, yellows and oranges.
Walls: Paint them a light blue and if you're real artsy you might try painting on a few palm trees on one wall.
Furniture: Light brown furiture and copper lamps, straw seats on your chairs.
Bedding: Some places sell tropical bed spreads during the summer, but if you're having no luck finding them go to a fabric store and get some tropical fabric and make your own pillows and just use a light blue or yellow bedspread (whichever works best).
Accents: The room should have a very light and airy feeling. Add seashells or mini palm trees, hula dancers, shreded green tissue paper around pencil holders or lamp shades, strings of christmas lights, straw mats on your floor and stuffed monkeys will always do!
Do it yourself: If you've ever wanted to try weaving, now's the time. Take a piece of cardboard the size of whatever you want to make and on opposite ends cut slits every 1/2 inch. Tie a knot at the end of the string and weave the string back and forth through every slit. Take more string and weave it over under horizontally on the string that's already in place. When finished end by placing each loop at the end over another until you have one loop left. Knot this one and you're done!

Country Apple
Colors: Reds, whites and greens
Walls: Paint fat vertical red and white stripes
Furniture: Lots of pillows, off-white painted wood furniture.
Bedding: checkered red bedspread, A variety of many pillows
Accents: A big ceramic bowl for random items (ahem, apples maybe?), solid cotton curtians, vases with flowers, White lamps with green shades, pleanty of pictures and mirrors, and a crafty-looking rug.
Do it yourself: Take some cardboard and cut out a bunch of little apples. Color them in, punch holes through the top and thread string through them. Attatch to a hanger or a few sticks to make a mobile, or put each one on an individual piece of wire and arrange in a vase or pot.

Head in the Clouds
Colors: light blues and whites
Walls: Paint a solid blue and paint a few clouds on the ceiling.
Furniture: Lots of pillows and white furniture, bean bags and butterfly chairs are excellent.
Bedding: You can buy cloud print beading at bed bath and beyond and linens and things. If you dont feel like buying that make it a project and sponge clouds all over a blue comforter.
Accents: Lots of pillows, a message board, flowing curtians, a few hanging angels, shelves decored with frames and candles, and a fluffy bathrobe on a hook.
Do it yourself: Take an old lampshade and some ribbons (the more of a variety the better). Wrap a ribbon once around the lampshade and tie in a bow, keep doing this with your ribbons until the whole lampshade is covered. It also looks better if all the bows arnt on the same side.

African Safari
Colors: Tans, yellows, oranges, greens and black.
Walls: Paint it a netural tan color
Furniture: Leopard print bean bags, basic dark brown wood furniture.
Bedding: Lots of pillows and fluffy comforters, try to make the comforter and blakents one color and the pillows animal print.
Accents: Of course a big stuffed leopard, a green placemat on the desk, a bamboo chinese screen, fluffy rug by your bed, pictures of animals on your wall.
Do it yourself: Take some big cardboard boxes and some animal print wrapping paper and the lid and bottom of the box separatly. Stack in a corner of your room for storage. (try getting three boxes, each one smaller than the last).

Urban Angel
Colors: dark blues, blacks, greys and yellow accents.
Walls: Paint them a very deep but not too dark of a blue. Paint a yellow stripe around the top and bottom. You could also paint a small city on one wall.
Furniture: Metallic desk, chairs, and bedside table. Try a silver daybead with a curtian around them.
Bedding: Make it stand out with a fluffy white comferter and lots of dark pillows for contrast. Add a nice throw blanket if you want.
Accents: A silver clock, a string of christmas lights, pleanty of frames and 1 or 2 mirrors on the wall, chrome vases with yellow flowers, and a magnetic board (container store).
Do it yourself: Take an old box and paint it silver or black. Punch pleanty of holes in it to make windows and finish it off so that it looks like a building. Make sure there is no top or bottom and place over a candle or small and cheap lamp.