Question of the Day - Thursday August 8, 2024

[MonaLyssa33]

How would you describe your childhood bedroom?


My bedroom was the same room from around age 9 until college (I lived in the same house from birth to age 31) and in middle school into high school it was decorated in an ocean theme featuring manatees. There was a wallpaper border in the middle of the wall and below it was sponged shapes like sea sponges in colors that coordinated with the wallpaper including lime green, hot pink, blue, teal, and orange. Above the wallpaper border had the same design, but the main wall color sponged on top to mute the loudness.

 

[KittyFriday]

I started with a small bedroom, but when I was in middle school my dad built on to our house so added a second part to it. The older part has lots of dark wood and 90s era wallpaper. The new part has lots of oak and cedar and I painted it yellow because that is my favorite color. I think my mom plans to put up paneling in both "rooms" and also put up wallpaper, but we'll see if she ever gets it done.

 

[neely]

I shared a bedroom with my sister and our father painted it every two years so we took turns choosing the color. I always wanted a shade of blue and she wanted a shade of pink.

 

[NY cat man]

I shared a bedroom with my older brother. It was a part of the attic that had been walled off, and in winter, the only heat was from the stovepipe passing through, and frequently you couldn't see out of the one window due to the frost. I don't recall what color the walls were, or if they were even painted, and the floor was bare planks.
After we sold the farm, I shared an even smaller bedroom with my brother and uncle, at least until said brother enlisted in the military, at which time my younger brother took his place. If I recall, the room was about ten feet square, on the second floor, with a peaked ceiling. It was also at the head of the stairs, and my sisters had to pass through to get to their room.

 

[allmykitties]

Purple. The walls were purple. The carpet was purple. I had a canopy bed with a white bedspread/canopy that had a purple floral print (the curtains matched, too).

I liked purple when I was a kid.

 

[susanm9006]

My sister and I shared a tiny room, maybe 7.5 x 8. We had bunk beds, she was on top, I was on the bottom. Walls were mint green, bedspreads lavender.

 

[game misconduct]

a hiding ground for incomplete homework or other paperwork teachers sent home to be signed by my momno idea why i didnt just toss the stuff out before getting home didnt matter any ways cause i would be busted after every parent teacher conference

 

[MoochNNoodles]

I'd have to stop and think about how many bedrooms I've had. The first I remember was in a rent-controlled apartment complex. Mom painted one wall pink and had to repaint and hide it from the yearly inspections. It was always hot because we were right next to the boiler room and I used to get overheated so easy when I was young. My bed was my mother's childhood bed with a new mattress. I also had (and still have) the matching night stand. She had carpet put down otherwise it would have been those cold vinyl tiles like the rest of the place.

After that I had a neat bedroom in an attic apartment. The house had a very steep roof with some gable windows. My bedroom was long and narrow with several "nooks". One just fit a full size bed; which someone had donated to the church my great-aunt was a nun at. The walls were white and the floor a parquet if i remember right. The place was high gloss BRIGHT yellow when we moved in but we painted because the landlord was my mom's coworker. Tall people would have hit their head a lot in that place. I was the perfect size for the shower in the 4th grade when I moved in; but had to kneel to shower by the time we moved out a few years later.

Thee next place Mom bought a trailer and i loved it. The room was big for me and I had my own bathroom. The walls were white and blue with brown carpet; as the place came.

After that it was military housing which is very...utilitarian? White walls that I could her the neighbors in their kitchen through as they cooked and talked and opened and closed doors. Parquet floors. Nothing special but it was my sanctuary when all my stepsiblings were around. I "decorated" with some posters, Mickey mouse stuff and some big smiley stuff like a t-shirt I turned into a pillow.

Then we got a "real" house which my mom and stepdad still own. I had an amazingly large bedroom; which is now serving as the master so they don't have to climb the stairs when they get older. Mom painted one wall my favorite shade of purple because my stepdad didn't like the idea of painting the whole room. Since then I think he's realized that was kind of a silly thing and most of the house has had several different colors at some point. Mom found valances with lilacs on them and eventually a lilac bedspread that was too big but hey LILACS!! For my birthday one year they got me one of those wrought iron "canopy" bed frames that I had wanted for a long time. I love love loved that room. I took the bed frame and most of the furniture with me when DH and I got married and I moved out. I only sold that bed frame a couple years ago. The woman who got it was SO excited it made letting go if it worth it!

 

[Margot Lane]

A springboard & pit stop to the great outdoors.

 

[vampiric_conure]

I was, as I am now, an artist. My studio was on the side with art, paint, and whatever was everywhere. Then there was my budding Transformers collection of 20-some individuals. (Now I have over 300! ). My dad built the room when I was 8, and I lived in the basement from then until I was 21. It was such as 80's decor room, with wood paneling and shag rug, but I loved it!

Now the room is my dad's gaming room, LOL!

 

[JamesCalifornia]

~ Very ' Leave It To Beaver' style with bunk beds shared with my older brother.
Nice memories .. .

 

[catloverfromwayback]

I had about ten childhood bedrooms, the last three of them in the same house! I only remember those three. One had wallpaper with galleons on it, the next was all pink (they were very obviously boys' and girls' rooms - this was a 1960s-build house) and the last was the study, all wood panelling, my favourite. Loved that house.

 

[aliceneko]

I had a pink bedroom that had a heart theme as I had heart stickers on my wall and bedding with hearts on.

 

[lizzie]

My bedroom was pretty small...room for a twin bed and nightstand,a dresser and that's about it.But,it had this great window that overlooked a great view of the river,and my Dad found this pretty lavender wallpaper that he put up and it was nice.

 

[Willowy]

I mostly grew up in Navy housing, so couldn't do anything like paint or wallpaper. In the first apartment I remember, I had my own room but I was too afraid to sleep in there alone. I slept in my brothers' room instead. I got the top bunk because neither of them would sleep up there (it had rails! Don't most kids fight over the top bunk?), so one brother slept in the bottom bunk and the other on a futon on the floor. But I still decorated my room as I wanted. I mostly had Cat Fancy posters all over the walls (handi-tack because holes weren't allowed!), stuffed animals in the top bunk, and a hammock in the bottom bunk. Plus my bookshelves of course.

In the next house, I had my own room and was old enough that I slept there too. Same decor of Cat Fancy posters and bookshelves, lol. But the stuffed animals were on the bottom bunk.

When we moved to the US, my parents bought a 2-bedroom house so at first my bedroom was in the sunroom, then later my dad made bedrooms in the basement and one of them was mine. I was pretty much past the "posters everywhere" stage but still had a few up, other than that no decor. I don't have a very well developed aesthetic sense.

 

[cassiopea]

I had a few childhood bedrooms, so they tended to vary. I reckon for the most part they had a reasonable amount of colours and art on the wall.