At Home Rewards Helps Remodel Teenagers’ Rooms

At Home Rewards, an Adaptive Marketing LLC^® home care savings program, has all the right resources to help parents avoid budget troubles when looking for the right elements to redecorate their teens’ rooms. After all, if your son or daughter is going through those wonder years, you probably have your hands full just dealing with their normal but sometimes bumpy road to adulthood.

Tackling the redecoration of a teen’s room is different than doing the same for a younger child’s room. When they’re kids, you make most decisions for them, but once they reach the teenage years, things get a bit more complicated. Teenagers’ tastes broaden and change easily…they want the power to make choices…and they especially want their room to be the place where they feel at ease, where they can be themselves.

To start off on a good note, let them choose which stores to visit when looking for paint, blinds, accessories or tools needed for the redecoration. AtHomeRewards offers savings at some of the major retail stores in the country, where teenagers will find what they are looking for and you can save, so you both will get something good out of it.

At Home Rewards offers makeover tips for teens’ rooms:

Negotiate. It’s their room, it’s their space, but it’s your house, so the decisions have to be made together. Be understanding and reasonable, and try not to impose your tastes on them. Give them logical reasons when you say no to what they want, and offer them choices as well as guidance.

Paint. The color scheme is part of the negotiation process, and a very key one. Teenagers like instant gratification, so if you want to score some points with them, let them pick that bold color they want, but only for the wall behind the bed, and agree on the other(s) to balance the room. This will be a focal point that will give them the drama they’re looking for, and you might end up looking like a very cool parent.

Work. Redecorate together, even if the job is a major one that requires hiring professionals. Recruit your teen to help you put up curtains, install blinds or assist with other finishing touches that complete the look of the room. This is an excellent excuse to spend time with your child, to work as a team and to do something you both can enjoy.

Reutilize. One of the projects you can work on together is choosing what stays and what goes in the new decoration. As part of the process, you can paint old furniture to give it a new look or if your teenager is into arts and crafts, let her do her own creations with old sheets, comforters, pillows, etc.

Accessorize. Teenagers are not necessarily difficult, so the process of picking colors or theme for the room doesn’t have to be a hard one. But when the time to decide on accessories comes, it’s best to let them be themselves and choose most of them. All they want is to express their personality in their personal space, so let them be creative and resourceful. You can even tune into their taste and try to come up with ideas to frame their favorite posters or a new way to store their baseball cards. Remember what it was like when you were a teenager, and do something you would have liked your parents to do for you.

This article is brought to you by At Home Rewards, a membership savings program that brings you savings and privileges to beautify your home, from new accessories to a whole makeover! When you’re ready to tackle a new home project or you just get tired of your old set of lamps, you can shop at your favorite stores and save with AtHomeRewards.

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Headquartered in Norwalk, Conn., Adaptive Marketing LLC^® is a category leader in membership programs, bringing value direct to consumers through an array of benefits in healthcare, discounts, security and personals. With broad online and offline distribution capabilities, Adaptive Marketing offers its corporate client partners effective tools to enhance market presence, strengthen customer affinity and generate additional value through programs such as AtHomeRewards.

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