Ocean-themed bedroom for boys, more ideas needed?

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Nina Lee

My boys (2 & 5 y/o) share a room. They currently have a sports/ ball theme going on in there but I want to change it to an ocean theme (considering my 2 y/o has a love for seahorses and my 5 y/o sea turtles). So... this is all I have so far and I'm just hoping for more ideas (anything) to go along with it (or to better my idea)....

Blue walls, fading light to dark from top to bottom. Large green (his favorite color) sea turtle painted near my 5 y/o's bed. Maybe a couple of smaller turtles also. Smaller but several, most of them being pink (his favorite color), seahorses pained near/ above my 2 y/o's bed. Yep that's it, need ideas please. Thanks!!!

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you could make a large mobile to hang in a corner made of seashells

yu could hang curtains with whales or dolphins on them like these

http://www.ecrater.com/p/3548096/window-curtain-valance-made-from-blue

you could put up some fish decals

http://www.amazon.com/Undersea-Tropical-Wall-Stickers-Decals/dp/B002WOWVQS

you could put in an area rug with boats or something ocean themed on it

add bubbles to the wall to give the underwater effect.

don't forget ocean themed bedding

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.100-mile-house-log-homes.com/ocean-bedding-lg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.100-mile-house-log-homes.com/ocean-bedding.html&usg=__37nO63sEK2fS0nZc7kDjK8zbvFc=&h=450&w=450&sz=241&hl=en&start=1&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=9xUeMJHizgW3wM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkids%2Bocean%2Bbedding%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1R2GGLL_enUS340%26tbs%3Disch:1

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51+v+jr4K8L.jpg

http://www.kidsroomtreasures.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/colorful-sea550.jpg

and don't forget to paint some seaweed all around near the bottom

Any ideas on how to turn my daughters princess room into a baby boy/little girl room?

emilbus33

Well we were planning on selling our townhouse before having our second child, but with the housing market, doesn't look like that's happening anytime soon!

We have two master bedrooms so my daughter is quite spoiled to her own space, but i think she will be a wonderful big sister and love to share her giant room with the new baby...yeah right!

Anywho, i need ideas of how to make the room suitable for my little girl who will turning three when the new baby boy is born. I don't think pink princesses with tiaras are fair for the new baby :)

We obviously can't have anything too masculine or too feminine. I am an anti-pooh, anti-character type of mom when it comes to decorating and I would say I'm very modern/contemporary.

Any ideas would be fantastic!!!

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You could make the color theme brown, blue, and pink. Have half of the walls brown with pink polka dots and half of the walls brown with blue stripes. It would look cute and be suitable for a boy and girl to share. Have your daughter's furniture by the pink and brown walls and your son's furniture by the blue and brown walls.


You could do a jungle theme. Incorporate pinks, blue, yellows, greens, oranges, and browns or tans. Maybe have somebody come in and paint a mural on the wall if you can. Otherwise, hang a lot of pictures up. Paint the walls with circles and stripes.

An underwater theme could be fun. Again, a mural would be nice. Otherwise, hang lots of fish and underwater pictures and decorations. You could have pink and purple fish and orange and green fish.

A barnyard theme would be cute. Use a mural or pictures.

What about a mid evil type theme. Pain a castle on the wall or build one from wood or buy a cloth one and make it like a princess and prince room.

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What are the benefits and downfalls of moving from New Jersey to California?

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anonymous

I recently traveled for work to Fremont, CA, which is between San Jose and San Francisco. I enjoyed the weather and how nice all of the drivers were (especially in the city). Now I'm considering moving there. I'd like to know if anyone recently thought about moving to California (especially that area) and why, or why you didn't move. Did you perform any financial analyses? Are there any site that you'd recommend I check out for someone who's thinking about moving there? No sarcasm, please.

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I'm a long-time California resident who moved to Silicon Valley (near Fremont) many years ago. First, let me correct some misconceptions. Fremont is not anywhere near or like Simi Valley, which is in the southern part of the state. Second, the area you're looking at is not "laid back" as some would have you believe. It's a high-stress, congested, crowded area. I find it very stressful living in this area.

The weather is great. But the cost of living is unbelievable. Don't bother looking at the web sites that compare cost of living in various cities. I've found them to be mostly fantasy. Housing costs are astronomical. Expect to pay 400,000 for a small condo. A 3 bedroom home could easily set you back 800,000 in the Fremont area. Food, gas, utilities, and taxes are all out of sight. We pay sales tax (8.5%) on just about everything (including clothes, but not food).

If you have kids, you should know that the school systems in general don't compare favorably with those on the East Coast. Our highway systems are crumbling (San Jose was just named the city with the worst roads in the country).

What to do about neighborhood children who are a nuisance?

j

We have lived in the same neighborhood for over three years now. We live in a set of 4 apartments facing another set with a shared driveway. The other set is owned by another manager. The upper three are all two bed rooms and have about 15 children plus numerous adults (it really varies from week to week as some leave new ones come with one base family in each apartment). The kids are a real problem, they yell and cuss all hours of the day and night. Throw trash all over the place and tear up anything they can get their hands on, key cars, break other kids bikes and toys etc. When we ask the kids to stop they scream louder when you turn your back or claim it wasn't them in the first place. The parents all claim to not speak English when you try to speak to them about it even though I have had conversations in English with them before, (we live in San Jose, CA by the way). I am at the point where I am ready to call CPS and make a complaint about them for having so many people living in a two bedroom apartment. I know the best answer is to move but I just finished school and am trying to get caught up on all the bills I couldn't pay, my landlord worked with me while I was in school so I didn't get evicted for not paying rent. Does anyone have any other suggestions on ways to deal with this without having to involve CPS or the Police?
Just an FYI, I have complained to our landlord, he has the same issues that we can not prove which kids are destroying things. These children live in the apartments that are not owned by my landlord or the problem would have been solved and for the person who told me I don't have a right to complain because I am not caught up on my rent, I do pay my bills and my landlord was gracious enough to help me while I went to school. I make all my payments on time but cannot afford to move while I am paying the extra from the past few months on top of each month. I am a single mom myself with three kids and live six hundred miles from my family. I have every right to complain when I have key marks down the side of my car from kids who's parents let them run wild with no supervision. My house has rules, timeouts and bed times at 8. I make all my payments on time but cannot afford to move while I am paying the extra from the past few months on top of each months rent.

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You need to talk to the neighbors in your building. All of you get together and speak with the owner of your building and be prepared to ALL say you're going to move if he doesn't help you out with this one. He, in turn, can speak with the owner of the other building property owner to property owner. That should see some progress. Make sure you're all keeping some sort of record of the goings on, with specific incidents, times and who was involved. You're building's owner won't want a nuissance property costing him good tenants.

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