My bedroom was a shrine to the Dave Matthews Band. The walls were also painted bright blue (1 accent wall) and yellow (remaining 3) as inspired by a trip to Bermuda. My parents left the room intact until this past summer (I'm 26 and haven't lived at home since undergrad). My Dad said that he can't go in there now that it's no longer defined as 'mine.' I'd have to say I agree. There really is something about your childhood/teen bedroom.

I painted my room light blue with a midnight blue ceiling. We added TONS of glow in the dark stars so I could have a "sky" above my bed. I was also a neat freak. My parents and older sister liked to go in my room and move something just to see if I would notice and laugh at how mad I would get. I still have some pictures somewhere I think...

What a great post! Loved looking at the pictures on that blog.

This made me smile! The first picture reminded me of how teenagers still hold on to mementos from their earlier childhood, like favorite toys and trinkets, and it's usually not until we move off to college that we detach from these items. My mom pretty much shut off my (attic) bedroom while I was in college. Last year I was home for the holidays & since the normal guest room was taken I stayed in my old room and re-discovered all these little objects I had forgotten existed, my old posters, found my prom dress (still fits!), high school art projects I didn't recognize but had my initials etched in the corner... It was really something to realize what a different person I'd grown into (not a bad thing!) without even noticing the change. Bittersweet.

I love this! A teen's room is their sanctuary, the only space on this planet that they can completely call their own (unless of course it's a shared space, but then there's always that invisible line drawn, isn't there!)... And what I love most is that these teen spaces are a complete and total reflection of who they are in that moment... isn't that what we all strive for?

My room was light yellow complete with a wall of fashion magazine ads, christmas lights, and a butterfly chair. It looked like I took everything I liked and threw it everywhere.

Hey that's Kirsten Dunst! :)

Ugh! I can't look! But at least now I know that my teenage daughter's bedroom could probably be considered normal.

I am sure no pictures exist of my teenage bedroom, and for that, I am beyond thankful.

Colorful, black velvet posters, a HUGE Judas Priest tapestry on my ceiling, along with a big, yellow, 16 foot long, stuffed animal snake (cute, not creepy) and it was all aglow in my black-lit teenage bedroom. It was awesome!

I had a GIANT poster of Leonardo DiCaprio. Took up half of my closet. And a Taylor Hanson poster.

Much like I am now, my room was always pretty neat, I never got into plastering walls full of pictures from magazines etc. My photos were usually team photos from various sports I played nicely hung on the walls and I had a bulletin board that had all of my ribbons and medals. My dollhouse was always on display, I started it when I was 5 and worked on it well into high school, including doing a kitchen/bath/roof garden addition haha. It's still in storage in a closet at my mom's house. My dressers and nightstands were my grandmothers and I refinished them when I was 13. Mom still has them in various uses throughout her house. The item I'm most pissed I don't have now is a Heywood Wakefield desk that someone gave to my parents. We sold it at a yard sale for I'm sure a ridiculously cheap amount when I moved out. I didn't know what it was at the time, but now I would love to have it back.

Yah, is that not Kiki D in the header picture? Weird.

Funny, I've never had any poster or picture up my walls. As soon as I was old enough to ask for decor in my bedroom, I've always wanted framed picture. Even if the picture wasn't art but just a beautiful magazine cutting, I wanted it framed. I still am hooked on framing pictures to this day.

I also was a minimalist, so basically, I had a few pictures framed, a teddy bear in my bed, minimum school supplies on my desk (I love hiding things in drawers !). Walls were white, carpet was beige, but I had this beautiful wooden architectural accent that were painted black. And I had the coolest thing ever: a computer. In my bedroom. My own computer back in 1989, when I was 7. Wasn't that the coolest thing ever ?

Aw, sad... I'm reminded of how my mother would not let me hang anything on my walls when I was a teenager. I had one cork board I could put pictures and ticket stubs and pictures of cute boys from magazines, but that was it... The rest of my teenage bedroom was a shrine to my childhood - lots of stuffed animals and dolls. And white wicker furniture. And books! Lots and lots of books. At least those grew up with me.

Duran Duran, specifically, John Taylor ripped from Teen Beat and stuck to my walls. This was just prior to when I fell in love with the Absolut Vodka ads and those went up as well. I used to rearrange my room every few months... take a Saturday, lock myself in my room and completely transform it. At one time, I even had my bed coming out of my closet - I thought I was so cool.

cute teen, cute room, but uggh, NO SHOES ON THE BED!!

Haha reminds me of my room as a teen. I went through a goth phase and replaced my regular lightbulbs with red ones so it looked like a dark room. Took two days of being able to see NOTHING to put the old ones back.

When I moved off to college, my room was still the same blue sponge painted clouds (admittedly, cooler than it sounds) that we had painted it when I was 10 or 11, with some white shelves up high that I could arrange things on - mostly keepsakes and some decorative stuff I got here and there from people. I had some art hung, but all of it was rather grown up in style (in more of a 90's country style than a good grown up style), and the room was more just a collection of whatever my mom like on vacation and bought for me. I put photos under the glass on my desk and the cork board, but I never went crazy (and there were absolutely NO posters or anything allowed on the walls themselves). My bedroom was also only about 9.5x10, so there wasn't a lot of room. It was always horribly messy (too small, no room to keep things), so I mostly kept the door shut 24x7.

my bedroom changed from the main floor to the basement in middle school, so i most identify with that bedroom. my parents had refinished the basement and gave me the biggest room (bigger than their master) and i got to design my very own walk in closet.

decor was nothing but magazine clipping collages i had made, 'best friends' picture frames, things i had made in my dad's wood shop along with some of the furniture he made for me, and a floor lamp with this little ring to put oil in and scent the room.

to this day, i have NO idea why i chose cinnamon. i can't even smell cinnamon anymore without thinking about that room.

Great post! I am definitely going to show this site to my 15 year-old daughter!

I had a titanic poster above my captain's bed, surrounded by a string of white christmas lights and all the ticket stubs from movies I had seen. I also collected the "got milk?" ads and airwalk ads and plastered these everywhere, my bedroom was always a mess, but I loved it and still have fond memories of it.

That does look like Kirsten Dunst.

I remember that article on Kirsten Dunst! She called the paisley Tele a Barbie guitar. Blasphemy!

I always wanted a pink bedroom. Finally got it as an adult!

I know I'm a grown up because the first thing I saw was shoes on the bed. TAKE THOSE OFF, YOUNG LADY, NOW. Yeah, my room was all about The Clash. And a framed Alexander Calder poster from the Air & Space Museum. That I may retrieve from Mom & Dad's someday. (I already stole the avocado green fondue pot.)

Whew. I'm glad I wasn't the only one with pictures EVERYWHERE on the wall. Luckily I've grown out of that.. although I love gallery walls, luckily it's not the same thing!

Hilarious! I, too, sported the magazine-cutouts-as-wallpaper theme. My mom used to buy every magazine imaginable so I would plaster tons of "edgy" supermodel pics everywhere along with posters of Suede and Michael Hutchence. God, I had such a crush on that man! RIP

My bedroom was pretty dull. BUT, I did have a large birdcage (unused by birds) with an S&M diarama of my Ken dolls, hanging by their wrists. I was really into NIN. Fortunately, I have no pictures.

If you go to the site and see the post from Sept 22, you will see *the reason* white leather sofas exist. For tagging. Awesome.

I was a teen growing up in 90's suburbia with a love for vintage 60's/70's stuff. My room had light blue-green walls with pastel berber carpet, and I filled it with lots of kelly green, orange, red, and gold. Oh, and a big purple inflatable loveseat. Not my proudest decorating moment. What I would've given for orange shag carpet and paneled walls...

What a wonderful idea, I too scrolled through the Teenage Bedroom blog and found these rooms were SO great/ creative/ messy/ similar, and I never realized how popular Christmas lights are these days! The freedom that the parents gave to most of these teens is amazing, my mom didn't even let us have posters up (unless they were in the closet)!