Change Your Room

by Jane Bull

Book Overview

Jazz up your room with your own personal flair! Paint an old chair with cheerful colors, create colorful curtains or originate your own objet d'art! Change Your Room offers tons of ideas to make your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789439565
• ISBN13: 9780789439567
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9

Customer Reviews

A good book for kids who want to change their room

This book is filled with ideas and projects to re-do your room and to keep it clean and clutter-free. It includes many craft projects such as decorating furniture, making picture frames, making and decorating pillows, lampshades, and much more. The book gives you step-by-step instructions for each project, and most of them don't require expensive or hard-to-find materials. Plus, there are tips in this book about keeping your room clean and cleaning the clutter. I would recommend this book for ages 8-12. Teens would probably enjoy "Super Suite" by Mark Montano, or "Have Fun With Your Room: 28 Cool Projects for Teens" by Lynette Jennings better. This is a great book for children or even parents who want to make their children's rooms a more fun, better place.

A great book to help your decorating!

Change Your Room was a fabulous book that helped me think of GREAT ideas to make my room look a heck of a lot better. It has a colour scale so you know what will look good together and what won't, and it also gives you ideas for themes and things to use around the house to decorate! Did you know you can use a cardboard box, string, some old junk, and paint (or spray paint) to make a PICTURE frame?! And none of the things sound like boring work (which they aren't), it's a blast to do it!If you want to decorate or redecorate your room because you're tired of those boring white walls and plain furniture, GET THIS BOOK!Even if you aren't planning to redecorate, it is still an excellent book to look at all the ideas to decorate anyway!EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT! :)

A Teriffic Organizing and Spiffing-Up Book

Change Your room is a great book if your room looks like a big 'ole rat's nest, and it really needs some bright colors, creativity and organization to tidy it up! This book starts out with ideas for different "theme types" you could use when organizing your room, including: Harmonies Hues (pink and gold), Silver Spectrum (metallic everything with square lines), Wild Contrasts (safari with very bright colors) Sunshine Shades (nature with bright sunny shades), and lastly, Comic Color (comics with super bright colors). These sample rooms get you really involves, and ready to change your room, because they look so cool! The next section is "Sorting Your Stuff" which has a lot of great ways to organize your stuff in an easy way. Including: Using hanging plastic pockets, dividing up your clothing drawers with cardboard, using bookends, hanging up your cards on a clothes line across your room etc.! The third section is "Decorating Basics," which gives you the how to, what type of paint to use, materials, how to use a craft knife, and basically a list of everything you'll need to make the projects in the next section. Finally, section 4 is "Making Changes," the section with all the terrific ideas. This includes how to make all of the items found in the sample room. Projects range from ways to paint your walls, to changing chairs. to making a chest of drawers look terrific and exotic, to decorating doorknobs, to picture frames, to painting and dying fabric, to Personalize Pillows, to Big screens, to lampshades, and Much, Much, Much more! For each ideas, there are bright colorful pictures, and easy to follow, colorful instructions. If you are trying to organize and make a child's room more inviting, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU!

A Cool Book

I've always thought that my room was ok. But when I checked this book and gave my room a second glance, I knew I was wrong. My room's so boring I don't even sleep there anymore. All I can say is, if you want to change your room, this book is the one to buy