Toddler Room Decorations

My son loved Pillow Mountain, which was 20-25 pillows of all shapes and sizes and colors piled up in the middle of his room. The pillows were made from random chunks of foam and covered in washable fabrics. Sewing your own pillowcases is about the simplest sewing task ever and fabric is available cheap on the remnant table. Pillow Mountain was used as a fort, as an ocean, as a trampoline, as a place to nap or read or just roll around in. About every other month, I took all the pillows forms outside and whacked them with a broom handle to de-dust them but it was remarkably maintenance-free, otherwise.

Best thing my spouse did when decorating our son’s room was to stencil the alphabet all along the walls at about shoulder level. Walking around the room and saying the alphabet while pointing at the letters became part of our bedtime routine (after bath, before reading). We weren’t trying to make him an early achiever (whatever the hell that is), but he did learn his ABC’s very early and was an early reader too. (also nth-ing the blackboard paint).

I just found something else that might be cute in your room. It's a http://www.unique-baby-gear-ideas.com/ladybug-rug.html that's about halfway down this page. The page was supposed to be about ladybug rugs and I almost missed it. As talented as you are, you could probably use them as something to go by to make your own.

Wow! I certainly would try to incorporate that into the new room theme. The chest of drawers is just too cute! The contemporary graphics definitely rule out my suggestion for a cottage garden theme using pastel colors. Your ladybugs are not of the shrinking violet variety by any means! You will need to find a way to work with the bold blocks of primary colors. A solid set of bedding and window treatments may be the way to go unless you get really lucky and find a set that has a fabric in your colors with random squares printed on it. Maybe you could do some painting on the walls carrying the geometric design around the room. Make a ladybug trail on the wall if the geometric painting isn't enough. Looking back at the other ladybug room theme I mentioned, there are some http://www.unique-baby-gear-ideas.com/ladybugs-wall.html that you might be able to use. But really nothing as cute as what you painted yourself. What a great makeover you give that piece of furniture!

msbaby- You can see the dresser on the second entry on http://aletheiaupdate.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html of the baby's blog.

Has anyone tried the magnetic wall stuff? FWIW I did a wall with the blackboard paint, got tired of it and just cleaned and scuffed it to paint over it. Your ladybug furniture could be transformed from being used in a http://www.unique-baby-gear-ideas.com/ladybug-baby-nursery-theme.html to a little girl's cottage garden theme or a tea party theme or a just critters room. Maybe you could skip the theme thing altogether and just pull colors from the dresser? If the room is large, you may need more decorations to fill the space but if it's average or small in size I'd let the hand painted dresser be the decorative focal point. Do you have any pictures you would care to share?

a rainbow is pretty fun to look at and easy to paint. some nature themes, like plant shapes, would be fun for now and also appropriate for an older child.

I haven't painted my daughter's room yet, but I really liked how the Dottilicious stickers worked out (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathowie/1280443009/).

We did the blackboard paint, but were a little leery about painting over it, so instead we bought a sheet of melamine, painted that with BB paint and attached it to the wall with drywall screws. A few years later, we swapped the child's room with our office and taking down the blackboard was E-Z.