Room to Grow In: 3 Parents' Stories of Redoing a Child's Room

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Kids seem to outgrow their bedrooms every few years. Clutter accumulates; tastes change. Older children suddenly need a desk to organize school work; motifs that were cute for a toddler don't work for a kindergartner.

Here are three do-it-yourself stories about making over kids' rooms under different circumstances: one for a 4-year-old in a roomy, rural Victorian, another for tween and teen brothers in a city apartment, and a third for two sisters in a suburban Colonial.

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Room to Grow In: 3 Parents' Stories of Redoing a Child's Room

Building in flexibility

Our 4-year-old has averaged a new obsession about once every six months -- outer space, construction vehicles, pirates, knights and now trains. So, when it came time to update his room -- mostly unmodified since we transformed a spare room into a gender-neutral yellow nursery -- we were reluctant to embrace any particular theme.

Blue is his color of choice, so painting the walls was an eas...

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