When creating your functional living space for your tween, ask them for some help. Often time, tweens searching for ways to show their self expression, especially because they are caught in between worlds. Involving them in a redecorating project is a great opportunity for them to demonstrate their very definite opinions about their living areas.

One thing that is important about a tween space is furniture. Make it great for tweens by choosing colorful painted furnishings and decorative accessories. This does not have to be expensive, simply transform unfinished furnishings, hand me down/mismatched pieces and flea market finds with a little paint or a new piece of upholstery fabric. Spray paint is available in an endless array of contemporary colors, and allows for quick coverage and a speedy completion of several projects. Your tween will love the space that is for just them, and you will love the price tag.

Tweens are in school and are starting to establish the habits for the future, so when creating a functional living space, focus on creating an environment that is tailored to study. Also provide a happy environment for relaxing and hanging out. You will appreciate knowing where your tween is and what they are doing.

Use a wall system to let them store books, CDs, photos of themselves and their friends. Make sure you have some open space, drawers, cabinets with drawers, and more. Make these wall systems more customized to your tween by adding paint and color to unexpected places within the wall system, such as the interior wall of a cabinet walls or the fronts of cubby trim. You can use great baskets with colorful linings for storing magazines, tapes, CDs, videos, and more. There are plenty of colorful bins, baskets, and more that can be used to add color and storage to a functional space for tweens.

You can create a wall just for them. Put a cork board up for pictures or other things like that. Put things that say "them" on them. For example, you could have a sports wall, a wall for artwork, or photos of them, etc. Personalize it with a distinctive theme.

For a functional living space for tweens you can visit a thrift store, or a consignment store, and purchase used, mismatched frames, and more. Then, visually tie mismatched frame styles, shapes and colors together by applying one common paint color or special effect paint technique to all frames. Be sure to choose a hue that vividly contrasts with the wall covering and gives the space a dramatic look that is all their own.

The best way to create functional living spaces for tweens is to use some paint and some imagination. Let your tween get involved, and focus on creating a space good for study and friend time for your tween. They will love it, and you will be thrilled with how your tween responds.