COOL COLORS

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It’s hot as HECK and even though autumn is just a few weeks away, cool colors are STILL on my mind. For one thing, it doesn’t feel like fall to me and my patio thermometer backs me up telling me that my feeling that we’re still smack dab in the middle of summer is right on Target. And when I’m still wearing shorts and sweating like wild, I like to surround myself with cool colors, don’t you?

CHARACTERISTICS of COOL COLORS

Not only is it lovely that shades of blue, violet and green make me think of cool, refreshing ocean water, they are especially useful in decorating a small bedroom because they tend to recede or feel as if they are pulling away from you which make the room seem bigger! Not a bad thing when decorating a dorm room or a small bedroom in an apartment.

It’s so hard to let go of airy colors like turquoise blue and teal green that bring lazy days at the beach to mind or colors that remind me of that visit to the farmers market where I got inspiration to decorate a master bedroom with colors that I pulled from the fruit and vegetables that I saw there.

But even though summer feels as if it’s dragging on and on and on and the heat outside is unbearable I have to grind the gears and shift my decorating focus from breezy and colorful to fall colors. Looking back on the last few month’s inspiration boards it’s easy to see that the season inspired the purchase of more than a few beach bedding sets with fabrics in cool colors that reflect the soft and breezy atmosphere of a cottage at the shore resplendent with cool shades of blue balanced by neutral colors and plenty of texture.

Looking at my notes detailing some teen girl bedroom decorating ideas with pictures, the blue and yellow color scheme of the comforter she chose makes me think of sitting on the porch of a beach cottage, sipping a cold glass of lemonade and enjoying the breezes blowing in from the ocean. If you have any imagination at all you should see why I’m being dragged into decorating for fall kicking and screaming!

Oh well, the first crisp breeze that blows my way will have me out shopping for teen girls bedding sets in earth tones and cool colors will be on my back burner until next spring.

HOW TO CHOOSE COLLEGE DORM BEDDING

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The summer has flown by with days at the beach a memory, how to choose college dorm bedding is what's on most teen girls' minds these days. With the exodus for college in full swing, for the next few weeks I’ll be up to my eye teeth in dorm room decorating projects.


Actually, after thinking about it just a minute I realize that I've been taking little else in the way of calls requesting decorating consultation since mid-summer and longer. You might be amazed to learn that some girls start bouncing around ideas for decorating dorm rooms right after they returned from spring break vacation. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at their enthusiasm since this is a teen girl’s first bedroom in her life as an adult and having the perfect set of girls college dorm bedding is very, very important.

As excited as the girls are about getting their rooms decorated, after spending several weeks shopping online and browsing in stores for looking for twin bedding, extra long (xl) twin sheet sets, pillows, and room accessories, I have a tip to share with you that will save you some time AND money thus the title of this post, How to choose college dorm bedding...get it?

Before you rush out to buy your dorm bedding and stuff you should consult with your roommate to see what color and style her comforter set is. It would be a raging disaster if you bought bedding that clashes like crazy with hers. Find out what color your roommate's things are and do your very best to be accommodating if she has already jumped the gun and made her purchase. MAYBE, just maybe you will get lucky and learn that she was waiting to find out what color your bedding set might be and you will get to pick first!

Turquoise and Brown Bedding

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I love this set of turquoise and brown bedding called Julia that is designed by who else but Roxy bedding! I just had to share it with you in my blog before I’ve even got it delivered to the house where I'm decorating four bedrooms including one turquoise, brown and white bedroom which is now going smoothly after a minor glitch or two.

The teen girl in the family had the idea that she wanted to combine chocolate brown and white damask print fabric with a complementary solid or small patterned turquoise blue fabric (not aqua or Robin's Egg blue, but turquoise!) which would have been pretty but to make it happen would have meant shopping for bedding, curtain and upholstery fabric and then waiting for the seamstress to get around to actually making the items.
This was not a workable plan because of a sister’s wedding that is planned for less than a few weeks away so I pulled this set of white, turquoise and brown bedding out of my little bag of decorating tricks. This brown and blue comforter set is much less formal than what she had mentioned earlier. The brown and white print actually came from one of the tropical collections of Roxy bedding for girls but wonder of wonders, the patterns were not a big deal to her.

The chocolate brown and turquoise bedroom color scheme turned out to be more important so all is well and we will have all the bedrooms decorated in time to have the house looking great for the wedding!

PINK ROXY BEDDING

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If you want a pink bedroom that your daughter will not think is too “baby” you need pink Roxy bedding. So many mothers have a hard time accepting that their daughter is growing up and wants a more mature style of bedroom décor. How many times have I had to offer a tissue for a customer to dry her tears as she spoke of how her teenage daughter outgrew her pretty, pink baby girl’s nursery that she had lovingly decorated for her too fast.

Thinking about how it’s going to hurt me when my last little chick leaves the nest makes me very sympathetic to this situation. But I also remember what it was like when I was a teenage girl wanting a cool bedroom that would make my friends green with envy only to have my mother want to preserve the decorations that I had had for years like she was turning it into some sort of outdated shrine.

I believe the answer to this bedroom decorating debacle is one of the cute, pink Roxy bedding sets. The great thing about a pink Roxy bedding set is that there is nothing babyish about it. Their designers know their way around this color and have one of the best approval ratings with teens and tweens of any company that I know of because of their ability to successfully sell bedding covered in hibiscus flowers just as well as comforters with hot pink and black polka dots!

The reason for the high level of acceptance is without a doubt due to their attention to detail in regards to what color schemes are popular as seen in the very well received brown and pink Roxy bedding and the Roxy tropical bedding sets. And it always seems that their fabrics coordinate well with pink wallpaper in the marketplace marketed towards this demographic.

So, the bottom line is that mom can dry her eyes because the right pink Roxy bedding that will let her have a few more years to enjoy her teenage girl surrounded not only with the love of her family, but with lots of what she perceives as the best color for a teenage girl’s room.

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AQUA BEDDING SETS - BEACH COTTAGE BEDROOM IDEAS

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The surf’s up and the ocean temps are rising. Requests for aqua bedding sets and aqua bedroom ideas start rolling in almost as predictably and reliably as the ebb and flow of the endless tide. This seasonal color trend in teenage girls’ bedroom decor has yet to miss a year for as long as I’ve been involved in bedroom design.

Even when I lived way up north where summer was so late to arrive that the mention of swimming never occurred to me until late June, teens came back from spring break with the intention of bringing their tropical vacation home with them. You could count on these well traveled young girls having ideas of decorating their bedrooms based on decorations that were used in their rented beach cabana and the many shades of blue they saw reflected in the sea. Aqua blue bedding is always a big hit in one style or another.


PATTERNS and PRINTS

Stripes and polka dots have been very popular with this age group but there have been more than a few beach bunnies lately that have chosen blue floral bedding over navy, teal and aqua bedding in plaids, stripes or polka dots. When I say floral, this is not your grandmother’s floral print. These tropical prints are as far from granny’s flowers as a palm leaf is from old fashioned ivy. Splashes and layers of ice blue aqua graphics grounded by teal green and navy are as fresh and bracing as salt spray no matter how many miles you happen to be from the nearest beach or your favorite island.

SHEETS

If your teenage girl likes to mix it up, even with tropical print aqua blue bedding sets, there is still room for a few dots or stripes. Black and white polka dot sheets might be the perfect background for the wild aqua blue bedding set even if the comforter is covered in bright green hibiscus flowers.

THE WALLS

An aqua bedroom is a natural choice for a beach cottage look. If the idea of being surrounded by four aqua walls is unappealing, consider painting three walls white and paint an accent wall a shade of aqua that matches your aqua bedding set.

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BLUE and WHITE BEDDING - HIBISCUS TROPICAL COMFORTERS for GIRLS

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When a client mentions that they were thinking of a set of navy blue and white bedding my mind has a nasty habit of jumping into nautical decorating mode. There’s just something about the contrast of those colors that make me think of the uniform worn by commanding officers in the US Navy.

But most teenage girls have little interest in a tailored (read formal or stiff) blue and white comforter set and a bedroom decorated with colorful ships’ flags and shiny gold buttons. No matter how proud they are of our military; they are just not into Naval decorating ideas for their bedrooms. So, I have found myself in need of re-routing my decorative thought process to be more in line with their interests and take steps to provide the girls’ navy blue and bedding in a more casual and fun design; like navy blue Roxy bedding with tropical, Hawaiian print fabrics splashed with big hibiscus flowers so fresh and exciting that you can almost hear the waves splashing on the beach.

With a set of tropical blue and white bedding, you are free to add pops of bright colors like hot pink, lime green or even light blue and orange to accent the bedding. This style of teenage girls’ navy blue and white bedding will give mom the bedroom color scheme that she wanted and her daughter gets to relive the fun memories of her spring vacation at the beach through her bedroom’s decor.

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PINK AND BROWN POLKA DOT BEDDING

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Pink and brown polka dot bedding with hibiscus flowers ought to be enough to get those creative ideas for decorating in pink and brown rolling in a very big way. Surfing scenes with shapes that hint of surfboards and waves that you see once in a lifetime when you are lucky enough to have a Hawaiian vacation booked at the peak of the season when surfing is at its best.

Don’t wait until you book your trip to Hawaii to decorate your bedroom in a surf theme. There’s no better way to set the mood than a cute, pink and brown polka dot bedding set. The great thing is that you can actually use your surfboards, your souvenirs and even your flip flops as bedroom decorations rather than to worry about where to store them when you aren’t riding the surf surrounding your favorite tropical island.

ROXY BEDDING with REVERSIBLE COMFORTERS - BEDROOM MAKEOVERS IN MINUTES

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Reversible comforters are an excellent way to get a lot more bang for your decorating dollar especially when you are buying bedding sets for teenage girls’ bedrooms where a late night cup of cocoa can throw a real monkey wrench into the mainstay of the room’s décor; the comforter or duvet cover. When you give it some thought, all the careful consideration you put into paint color selection, window treatments and floor covers are just one ink spot away from becoming obsolete as that’s all it takes to completely ruin the look of your bed linens.

Unless, of course, you were savvy enough to think ahead and make sure that the bed in a bag or designer bedding collection that your young lady preferred had a reversible comforter that could be flipped over in case the worst case scenario became a harsh reality. If both sides of the bedding set is finished, all that’s needed to fix the mishap is a quick flip of the comforter and perhaps a warning not to drink hot chocolate, apply makeup or use permanent ink while lying in bed.

When it comes to the best decorating ideas for teenage girls’ bedrooms, versatility is always desirable and Roxy bedding with reversible comforters are a super way to get a lot of mileage out of your bedding sets and decorations even if a disastrous stain never comes your way. In today’s market it’s no problem to find cheap bedding and comforters so that stylish bedrooms for teenage girls don’t cost a fortune. But that doesn’t take the sting out of having to change the wall paint colors, curtains and room decorations when the inexpensive bedding sets are damaged or don’t look that cool after one trip through the wash and need to be replaced.
Reversible comforters will give the rest of the bedroom’s decorations a longer lifespan and give mom some time to catch her breath between makeovers.

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RHIANNA - ROXY BEDDING in PINK and BROWN POLKA DOTS

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You have to study the Rhianna Roxy bedding set or at the very least take a second look at the comforter to see the unique way that the patterns and colors come together in a rather unusual and yet pleasing way. If someone had described the set to me without having seen for myself the successful play of patterns between the sheets, the pillow shams and comforter the picture in my mind would have been that of a train wreck rather than the sweet combination that it actually happens to be.

You have your large, hot pink and white geometric print on the comforter of the Rhianna Roxy bedding set as well as the pillow shams. But then they have thrown in pink and brown polka dots on the sheets and pillow cases. Then to top it all off there is an eclectic array of accent pillows, one with the famous Roxy logo, that by all rights should confuse things further but instead tie the package together with a neat little bow.

My question is that a pair of angel wings in pink on the square, black throw pillow or is it a takeoff of the Harley Davidson motorcycle logo? It really doesn't matter but I should mention that this particular pillow is the key to making the black and pink geometric design on the back side of the reversible comforter workable even though it is side by side with pink and brown polka dots.

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ROXY BEDDING SETS for GIRLS-BEDROOM DECORATING IDEAS

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I was recently contracted to design a bedroom around a collection of Roxy bedding. for girls using a tropical floral design. The tropical print duvet cover fabric had a unique color scheme of red and brown with touches of oatmeal and tan which was not a combination that you might have pictured for a comforter in a Roxy comforter set called Coconut.

Normally I see bright pink, blue and yellow in varying shades when teen girls want to take their decor in an Hawaiian style of decorating. This unusual hibiscus flower print bedding collection was different in that I could picture lots of stained wooden accessories rather than the flower arrangements and glassware or ceramics that came to my mind when the teenage girl called me on my cell phone to tell me that she wanted a completely "Roxy Bedroom" and that she had already picked out a set of Roxy Bedding for girls. Coconut being the operative word here, because brown was the key to decorating this room successfully.

The decorating ideas that were put into practice for this bedding set were tropical but grounded in woven rattan and dark stained woods. The headboard for the bed was woven rattan which blended beautifully with the wide slats of the dark wood plantation shutter window treatments. Accent pillows in a textured fabric that was an oatmeal color with flecks of brown decorated the top of the comforter and a chocolate or mocha tailored bed skirt balance the break between the bold print fabrics and the hardwood floor.

The surprising thing was that once the room was completely decorated I saw that the bedroom could have just as easily worked for a boy as a girl it was so lacking in girly colors. The tropical print on the Roxy bedding for girls was all that saved the room from being overly masculine in design.

Most teens or tween girls might find this Roxy bedroom a little mature, but this teenage girl was very involved in the selection of decorative accessories and she loved the outcome. I found the room very sophisticated but it still managed to give off a casual feel. I couldn’t help but wonder how we could use the same set of Roxy bedding with lighter, brighter colors and some fun accessories like monkeys for a truly tropical bedroom. Maybe next time.

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