Did you ever have to share a room with your sibling when you were growing up? I did. And talk about matching--everything was perfectly coordinated, right down to the position of the pleating on the bedskirts. As symmetrical as our room was, it reflected more of my sister's personality than mine: feminine and...very pink (the bedding was from Laura Ashley). Which is probably why I was really drawn to this DIY project from Cookie magazine: Mismatched headboards to allow each child to express a little bit of their personality.
[ Photo from Cookie magazine ]
First!
Do you think having a pink room affected you as an adult?
If not, then what difference would it really make? If so... I'm sorry. :P
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In Grace's defense (sort of; my story's the opposite), people can have really strong feelings about color (to say nothing of sibling rivalry). My grandmother dubbed me the lavender child and my cousin the pink child, and sometimes it irked me. I guess I associated it with Barbie as a sort of Alpha female thing. I went through a stage where I finally decided I was going to have pink for myself and I wore it a lot. Then I got over it and wore it in more normal amounts.
Anyway.
I like this room as a way to be matching but not too much. It reminds me of a friend who went out with her sister and got variants of a violet/pansy tattoo in different places. "They're like, a sister thing. The same, but different."
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I love the idea, but the project suggests you buy a padded headboard for over $200 and then cover it with fabric. Certainly there's a way to do this that's a bit more DIY, and a bit less expensive. Or am I turning into some sort of nasty DIY purist?
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Hm..maybe I should take that back. It seems the headboard they link to includes the bedframe. So 200 is expensive, but not unreasonable. But I still think you could do a real DIY version with some foam and a piece of plywood. You could even do tufts!
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