Decor For Teen Rooms
Teen rooms are a headache for mothers everywhere. It’s not even like when they were younger. In those days, if their rooms were in a mess, you could shout at them and get them to tidy it up, and, if that didn’t work, you could go in and do a good job yourself. However, when it comes to teens and their rooms you’re dealing with something whole different.
Yes, you could go and ask them to tidy up their rooms. And true, you could shout at them a bit, if you wanted to, or go and clean the room yourself. However, that’s when all hell breaks loose. Teen rooms are private places and not to be interfered with unless it’s absolutely necessary.
Woe betide the person who dares to move even one inch of that mess on the carpet. It was there for a good reason and you had absolutely no right to move it. At least, that will be the argument of most teens, and you being the patient, caring mother that you are, will just roll your eyes and tell them that the whole pizza and day-old shirt thing just don’t go well together and you were just rescuing them from the revenge of the walking pizza slice.
Your teens will in turn roll their eyes and scream, that no it wasn’t about to grow legs and walk off on its own, and if it was then wouldn’t that be a great science project. You keep cleaning and they keep putting things back. End of story, and you’re basically right back to square one.
Of course, one way that you could deal with this bomb site is to redecorate it. Teen rooms might be sanctums to them, but even they would like it if you gave their rooms a great makeover.
That’s not to say that the room will be any cleaner once you’ve finished and they’ve moved back in, but at least you’ll get to see the inside of the room long enough to satisfy you for the next couple of years. That is unless you’re thinking of redecorating their rooms every year.
But now you come to your next problem. Since teens are famously different with regard to their rooms. You might find that your teen rooms are decorated very differently from that which you had expected and that which you would have done first of all. This is where a comprise ought to be struck, if your teen wants black walls for his room, then say you want another colour too that will offset the black.
Be prepared to give in a little on your ideas no matter how ridiculous their ideas are. After all, they’re only a teen for a while and later they will look back with horror on what bad taste they had.
So, it is your duty as a parent to allow them these fleeting moments in their lives so that they can look back on them with mock horror and disallow their own children from doing the same to their own teen rooms.
