What was your room like as a child?

Most of the years, I had to share a room with my sister...when we stayed at an apartment. It wasn't really a children's room and since we are 7 years apart, no theme would have worked for the both of us. We had more functional stuff and had more of wood laminate that gave it a co-ordinated look. We had a bunk bed that could be separated and used as single beds when we wanted to. We had twin study tables and as I grew older, I got a computer stand too. A whole wall was dedicated to a wardrobe that we shared....it was big enough that we got separate cupboards each and one common cupboard for things that we shared. We also had a dressing table that we shared. When we were in India, we had a huge home and separate rooms. The rooms were really big and more of an adult room. But we had a huge study table each and beds with lots of storage. We had a creme wallpaper with simple designs.

My parents were cool about me having my own space. Although there were rules. I couldn't paint my walls, but I could have designs post, poster, drawing, pictures, and letters on the walls. When I turned 15, I asked my parents if I bought my own paint, as long as it wasn't a dark depressing color could I paint it. They agreed. One side of the room with the window, I painted it a deep blue with the glow in the dark stars, the other side was a meadow, with the sun rising, and I was able to still have my posters, letter, etc.. on the walls. I added a desk, a bookcase, took the bed out and put it in the guest room, and got me a futon. I made my room my space. I talked to my parents, they gave me advice, and told me what they liked or didn't. I did some work for neighbors, stayed after school to help with tutoring, and even babysat for the money. As long as she has some say of the room she might even tell you what she likes, and go from there. Who knows maybe you and her can bond over setting up the room, and just have fun with it.

Dear friend, I did was not having a seperate room may until I was about 14 years old. Ater that myself and my sister was in one room. When I reached around 15 years I was given a seperate room that too when we shifted to a new home. But there was not much to say on my room it was a room painted while one bed my books no any much things there. Moreover after I had been 21 years I had gone to college hostel.

You know.... I don't know what my room was like when I was real young. I guess back then we didn't think about what was on the walls, but what was in the toybox. I do remember what it looked like as a teen, though. I painted the walls a light purple and my mother found a great comforter and curtains to match with purple flowers. Then I found an old metal (huge) office desk for $10 and I painted it a gorgeous color of purple. It was awesome!

When I was younger than 13, I remember that I had a canopy bed that I loved. When I outgrew that stage, I was able to decorate my room as I wanted. So my walls were pink, but the walls could not be seen because they were covered with New Kids on the Block posters from magazines. Oh, I think I am aging myself now. Once I got out of that phase, I feather painted my room and it looked more adult like. Now that I have moved out, my old room is a tv room with neutral colors. My room has definitely been through a lot.

Oh dear god thats a long time ago hihi ^_^ But i remembered that in my room was a posted of Pokemon and Spiderman :D , 2 huge posters at the white wall :) a large closet at the end of my bed, my room was also colored with Light Brown and White combined, honestly didn't liked it :( ^.^

I moved to the attic when i about your daughter's age. I loved it altho it was 'nothing' fancy it gave me some privacy.i plastered elvis pictures all over the place & things like that. Wrote everybody's name on the wall[dad wasn't too happy about that, lol]. i just loved it.I never was to girly girl & still am not. I think my house is real pretty , i have some beairtful glassware if i do say so myself.What does your daughter want? That's imprtant.

Oh gosh, I remember my childhood room so well - even though it was very simple. My parents still live in that very same house - and as we're local, I can always see it (although it became my sister's room eventually and I got the "office" room next to it). My bedroom wall color was always the same as the rest of the house - that off yellow type color. I had a white wooden bed - nothing terribly fancy - and I remember the candy hotpink/reddish bedspread on it. I had a child's wooden rocking chair in it plus a toy box. Oh, I had a child's table with chairs - but back then the set had a heavy marbley table top with metal legs (and metal backing/arms on the chairs too). There was a white dresser that my aunt gave me when I was born - but that my daughter uses now. I had curtains but can't remember what color it was. I remember putting stickers on my closet - I can't remember if they were cereal prizes or if I got them from those coin vending machines - but they're still on there - hee hee!! Yep, my room wasn't coordinated like the kids of today!!

I was not a neat child with my room. My room was always so messy that my mother used to say it looked like a tornado came through my room. i did learn some better cleaning up skills later.

She is blessed to have a wonderful mother like you. Pink room is always a first choice for the princess..hehe..hhhmmmm...how's my room looks like when I was a child? Honestly, I don't a room when I was child. I sleep with my brothers. If not, I sleep everywhere carrying my own pillow and blanket everyday. To my grandmother's, aunties and cousins. That's what I missed in life. To have an own room when I was a child. Until today, I still don't have my own room where I can paint, decorate and out stuff like I want. As of now, my husband rented a room in a cheap pension house for me to sleep and live comfortably. I am wishing to be with him soon, maybe that's the time I can have my own room and will decorate it. I am so excited. If I have a chance to have a room when I was a child, First choice I want it to be pink everything or Tweety motif.With a closet and a big world map in the wall, study table, of course bed and all decorated with pink materials....

Why do you ask your daughter, because it will be her room and she has to sleep in it every day certainly don't want her to wake up in shock every day particularly if it was done in a colour that she hated. Your daughter is so lucky to have a man like you who will think about doing up her room being considerate about style and colour. I never had that choice we moved into this house and my room is the colour of whatever it was only moved in and has stayed like that until I was 22 until we moved to a new house and I finally have my own room and have the choice to decorate it. Being 13 is still very young and I'm sure she would still appreciate all the pinks and white I certainly do at my age! It's best to talk to her directly rather than asking them here, perhaps you can get catalogues all research on the Internet for pictures of goods interior design ideas. Look at them together, most importantly your daughter has the final say and choice. Hope this helps.

Hi JenInTN, When i was a child i was always given the smallest room in the house. There was my mother, my 2 sisters and me in a 3 bedroom house, my 2 sisters are older than me and so i got the smallest room. I just had a plain room in the early days, i had blue paint on my walls as i never wanted any wallpaper. Later on i then found a wallpaper that i liked, it was marilyn monroe, although i was young i thought she was amazing and i wanted the wallpaper, well i got it. I also covered my school books in this paper. I was always very tidy as a child and i still am now, my mum never once needed to clean my room as i always kept on top of it. I guess for me i just always loved a plainly decorated room that was always clean and tidy.

When I was a little girl, what I like for my room to look like was to be surrounded of color pink and surrounded with Barbie designs and Hello Kitty! I wanted to see them on my wall always. as I wanted to be like and feel young! I wanted to be Barbie! :P

When I was younger I use to put anime posters in my room.My parents also allowed me to choose my favorite color, they've paint my room BLUE.

MIne was wall papered but I didnt get this room till I was 12 I think after daddy built 2 more rooms on the back of the house. I had thoer furniture very sturdy. and on my closet on out side Pictures I had drawn and dady put plastic over them to keep them fresh. Later it became my sisters room I was gone when she was born. and later it was the guest room .

13 is Bat mitzvah age so Mom, let her pick. It can be fun, you two can make a date to search out the colors she is into and let her pick. Granted you Will have to say no if she wants Purple walls but.. besides that let her pick. Ok. I Had to say it. My room remained the same from age 8 til 2005! It was All red. Red carpet, red curtains . White walls But then I stopped liking red and I moved, So in my new room it was blue based.

I shared a bedroom until I was almost 10. I would say they had toys and beds and that was about it, but I don't think most people thought too much about making rooms special 50 years ago like they seem to now...

Mine was white, we painted it yellow and orange, and then blue. My girls' rooms are white also, and their bedroom sets are not so obviously "girly' that they will outgrow them.

I want to appreciate you when you are child. Because you have room. I am raised with poor family that is why I don't have my own room. But I am proud to be like that...even I don't have room I always tried to be a good kids in that days

Hi JenInTN Up quite early? As a kid, I had a room that I shared with my granparents and it was not that greatly painted as the rooms are now a days. It was just plain white coat. But yes, it was a big room, quite spacious. The better thing was that I did spend so many great years in that room. The nights were really great as I was narrated so many good stories from my late grandmother, the summer vaccations were great when in the daytime, we (me and my grandparents) used to play Bridge, Carrom and even Chess). There were large windows that really let the warm rays of sun enter the room during the chilly winter mornings and days, and there was plenty of greenery around outside to keep the same sunrays light during the summers. Today, we do not have that house and also it is difficult to get such a room in the moderninzing and growing jungles of concrete... Miss my room