Sundays question of the day - Feb 15, 2015

Good morning everyone! I'm currently still lying in bed since I'm home for the weekend. Better yet, it's my childhood bed and neither that nor my childhood room has changed!

What was your childhood bedroom like?

My sister and I shared a bedroom and a bed. It wasn't until we became teenagers that our parents bought us bunk beds. She got the top bunk and I had the bottom. Our bedroom was painted in hot pink; I have no idea why because neither one of us really liked pink. A small closet. Two bureaus. And my sister used to put my stuff away all the time if she didn't like what was on my bureau; she'd just throw it into my top drawer and I'd have to get it back out. She was a girly-girl and I was more of a tomboy and that created problems. Our bedroom was very small and it was difficult to live together.

My bedroom was painted pale lilac, not that you could see much colour because I covered my walls with posters of pop stars and movie stars.
I had two single beds, one for me and one for friends who came for sleepovers. I'm an only child and I had friends over a lot.
I remember having a record player in one corner with all my records stacked up next to it and a desk where I did my homework or drawing.
My ceiling light shade was an umbrella shape with a little plastic pink panther hanging from it which you could bend into different positions. :lol3:

We lived in a big old house that my father renovated before we moved in. Our bedrooms had wallpaper and hardwood floors, but later my parents had them carpeted.

My mother put these framed prints of kids in our rooms. The paintings had 2 girls and 2 boys, but we were 3 girls and 1 boy but for some reason I thought the 4 kids represented us. Staring at those sad kids every night, I thought the little boy with the kitty must be me (our family cat was really mine, she had followed me home one day when we were both very young and was my childhood companion). Also I was dressed in jeans a lot, too, hand-me-downs from my brother.


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SwampWitch said:

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Ha!

My mom had paintings of clowns put up in our room.  I hated clowns.  It was a recipe for a bad nights sleep for years lol.

Anyway, I've had several bedrooms as a kid since we moved a few times.  But the one main one was in a 2 bedroom apartment in Brooklyn from ages 2ish through 10-1/2 was one I shared with my sister initially, and then my baby brother (once the 4th came, we moved to a house).  White walls because it was a rental, trundle bed (me on the bottom part), single bed for my brother when he got there.  Closet I was sure something lived in, along with the under-the-bed animals too.  Big window spanning the far wall, with a ledge across it for storage that my brother would go under when he had to poop while being toilet trained OMG I can't even believe I remember that  French Provincial style furniture.  

When we moved, my sister and I initially shared one of the upstairs "attic" rooms (area was finished).  It was painted lime green, with bright op art patterned bedspreads, lace curtains.  I remember being so happy to have color on the walls.  The furniture looked really out of place in that color scheme 

Good question; I had my Donny Osmond pictures up and Leif Garrett and so on. It was a small room but I fell to sleep having Donny there with me.

sivyaleah said:

 
Ha!

My mom had paintings of clowns put up in our room.  I hated clowns.  It was a recipe for a bad nights sleep for years lol.

Anyway, I've had several bedrooms as a kid since we moved a few times.  But the one main one was in a 2 bedroom apartment in Brooklyn from ages 2ish through 10-1/2 was one I shared with my sister initially, and then my baby brother (once the 4th came, we moved to a house).  White walls because it was a rental, trundle bed (me on the bottom part), single bed for my brother when he got there.  Closet I was sure something lived in, along with the under-the-bed animals too.  Big window spanning the far wall, with a ledge across it for storage that my brother would go under when he had to poop while being toilet trained OMG I can't even believe I remember that  French Provincial style furniture.  

When we moved, my sister and I initially shared one of the upstairs "attic" rooms (area was finished).  It was painted lime green, with bright op art patterned bedspreads, lace curtains.  I remember being so happy to have color on the walls.  The furniture looked really out of place in that color scheme 

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OMG, clowns.    That would be so creepy.

sivyaleah said:

Ha!
My mom had paintings of clowns put up in our room.  I hated clowns.  

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Poor you, I hate those creepy things too!

Clowns. They terrify me.
i had a small room. My bed, a cupboard, a dressing table with chair. And cupboard door and room door covered with elvis and James Dean.

lol, this makes me grateful I got to decorate my own room! Clowns would be a no-go for me.

When we moved houses when I was 7, I got to pick a light pink wall colour, the bedrooms were all polished hard wood, and the walls were (and to this day are) lined with dogs/puppies, cats/kittens, Pokemon, Chobits, Final Fantasy, and The Lion King. The bed sheets are all still Disney too. Bed in one corner, calendar (from April of 2004 ) above it. White doors, closet in the corner parallel to the bed with a desk in between and the window over the desk, dresser beside the closet, a dark oak desk and a white bookshelf at the foot of the bed, which sits against the wall. Sheer lace curtains, really bright and airy looking. I adore it.

I had 5 different bedrooms that I remember.  

The first (that I remember) was in an apartment that mom painted the walls light pink and added gray carpet that we had to take out when we moved (and repaint the walls too). My bedding was blue and the curtains were white and pink.  Mom used stencils to cut out an alphabet boaeder  I had her old bed and night stand from when she was a kid.  (I still use that night stand to this day.)  I had a tall dresser but I don't remember where it came from or what became of it.

The 2nd was an attic apartment and it was pretty cool.  The ceilings were at all kinds of angles so it had lots of nooks and crannies.  The walls were white and the floor was a brown parquet.  When we moved in that place the walls were a high gloss sunshine yellow.  It was insanely bright!  Mom had the rest of it painted mauve; but my room was all white.  I got a full size bed and dresser when we were living there. (I still use that dresser too.)  My bed took up one section of the room and it felt really cool!  I also had a blue blanket on that.  I wasn't into blue; it was just what we had.

The 3rd place was pretty great.  It had white and brown on the walls and brown carpet.  But it was a larger room with a walk in closet.  I had room for a big desk even.  I also had my own bathroom in that place. 

The 4th was a base house after my mother remarried and my step-dad was in the military.  The walls were white and the floor was a parquet brown wood again.  We were only there for 2 years.

The 5th was the best!!  When my Mom and Step-dad married I gained 4 step-siblings; so they wanted a large house for when we were all home.  I was the only one who lived there full time; so I got the biggest and best bedroom!!  The house was also only a few years old.  It had neutral light beige carpet that was so soft I fell asleep on it the first night there.  They painted one wall a darker lilac purple.  My absolute favorite color.  The other walls stayed white.  Mom found lilac valances for the windows too.  My bedding was still blue and when I turned  they bought me the wrought iron canopy bed frame I just loved.  My Gram bought me a quilt one Christmas that was purple, white, green and blue.  We eventually found a lilac comforter; but I didn't use it till I was married and had a queen size bed.  It was too big for the full size bed I had at home (that DH and I first used when we were married).

Oh, we moved around a lot when I was a kid. I lived in a caravan, on a boat and in at least 6 different houses before I was 12.

The bedroom I remember the most was my teenage bedroom, Purple carpet, black walls, red blind and red lampshade and black netting draped across the ceiling to give it that Bedouin tent look.

I was such a Goth. 

I didn't sleep in my own room until I was maybe 12 or so. The room designated as mine was farthest away from my parents' room and it was extra-long so half of it was made into a sitting room, divided by bookshelves, and I just thought it was too cavernous at night so I would go sleep in my brothers' room. When my dad was out to sea we'd all end up in bed with my mom. It was a king-size; lots of room for everyone!

But of course it was still MY room so I decorated it like I wanted. I had Cat Fancy centerfold posters all over the walls, and stuffed animals on top of all thd furniture. We weren't allowed to paint the walls or change the flooring, because it was Navy housing, so the walls were white and the floor was an ugly tan linoleum. When I was 12 we moved to a different duty station and our new house had all the bedrooms close together, so I was fine sleeping alone at that point. My decor stayed the same but at least the floor was a neutral off-white industrial tile instead of that nasty linoleum. I'm not much for decorating, I guess :tongue2:. Even now I don't really have a decorating style.

My sister and I shared a bedroom when we were small. It was the middle one with two large windows on the outside wall. We each had a single bed along the inside walls, which were off-white. I don't remember what color the carpet was. I do remember there was a very large closet.

We moved into a big old house when I was eleven, had our own rooms and could decorate them as we chose. My first one had turquoise walls, a gray rug and light gray furniture. It was full of very large rat cages - I remember my grandmother wouldn't set foot in it when she visited. When my older brother went away to college, I took his larger bedroom with lots of windows, including a big bay, and used neutral colors - beige and gold with dark oak furniture, including antiques my grandfather helped me find and he refinished. My sister moved into my old room and made everything purple, while my brother took her room for when he was home on weekends, etc.. The first thing he did was get rid of the purple and lilac in that room.