Being home for the long weekend got us thinking about adolescent bedroom decor and the families that keep these rooms in tact long after the adolescent has moved on. Inevitably altered over the years, there is still something intriguing about stepping back into these rooms, frozen in time...
Preserved teenage bedrooms are like a retrospective in personal tastes — a physical reminder of the person you once were and how far you've come. On the flip side, we know many parents move after the kids go to college or choose to redecorate after the house is kid-free.
What is going home for the holidays like in your family? Do you sleep in the same bed as when you were 17 or are you a guest in a redesigned room?
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my childhood home bedroom was a Michael Jordan shrine, with framed posters, jerseys, cards, wheaties boxes-you name it, I had it and displayed it. So the photo made me smile. Most of it was taken down and put in storage over the last five years. But my mom and dad felt compelled to keep up the decorations I outfitted my closet with-makes me nostalgic and them to I guess.
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Staying in your old room is like being in some kind of adolescence pergatory. I sit on my twin bed making notes for the office and I'm surrounded my Cabbage Patch Kids and Jem dolls.
I was a design fashion victim - it was all rip-out posters from Teen Beat wall-to-wall. Ew. Just sick.
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when I loved out of my mom's house as a teenager, I moved out. posters, furniture, adolescent crap, everything.
I guess most people go to university straight away and live in the dorms and need a room to come "home" to.
I waited a couple years for my education and got a cute apartment that I started decorating with thrift store finds straight away.
how badly I wish I still had the matching set of four vintage, original powder PINK fiberglass shell chairs with eiffel bases. totally original, and in 1997, $20 for the set at a second-hand store. given to my neighbor to use as patio furniture when I moved away. aaauugghh!
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When I got married and moved out of my Mothers house-I never slept in my Mothers house again. Sad. Would have been nice memory. Did sleep in my fathers house when I went to see him before he passed...right back in child mode again...too bad we never really learned to talk as adults.
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mmm, my rooms were cute. periwinkle and red at my dad's. Brown walls and colorful textiles at my mom's. I was a twelve-yr old ikea addict. still am. (an ikea addict, not 12.)
I love going home and sleepning in my old bed and playing with my daughter in there. very neat.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sugar_magnolia/2204179743/
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My room was turned into a den as soon as I moved into my first apartment while in art school. But there was a fold out sofa, so I stayed there when I came home to visit. It was very strange the first night my husband and I slept there - like I was going to get caught sneaking a boy in.
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