Need some creative, inexpensive ideas for a boy's room? Frugal-Moms.com put their members to task and asked them to come up with some ideas for a cowboy room. Here are some of the creative decorating ideas that they came up with:

Walls

* Paint "Yahoo" on the wall and outline it in barbed wire or rope. You may also use a lasso at the end.
* Paint a split rail fence along the bottom of the denim wall.
* Paint a cowboy on the wall, make him dimensional with an old cowboy hat, cut in half, a bandana around his neck, a real belt buckle, a lasso in his hand and cowboy boots cut in half and glued to the wall.
* Using old barn wood on one wall with an old barn door. This could be accented with an old saddle and tack to make it look authentic.

Bedcovers

* Find a comforter with cowboys on it.
* Use denim and put a red bandana border around it.
* Use old jeans to make a quilt with the same red bandana border.
* Buy a solid bedspread and use cowboy fabric for pillows.
* Buy a plain comforter and fuse bandanas or cowboy inspired fabric so it looks like a pieced quilt.

Ceiling

* Paint the ceiling to mimic the wide-open skies.

Accessories

* Putting up shelves with cowboy memorabilia.
* Using cowboy boots as bookends or plant holders.
* Using branding irons on the walls (not recommended for small children!)
* Using rope as knobs on furniture and in other ways.
* Making a soft rug out of cowboy fabric. To do this, you take fusible web by the yard and fuse to the back of fabric. Take another fabric, say denim and fuse to this. Then finish off edges with a wide bias tape. Easy to throw in the washer. Be sure and wash fabrics first.

The Result

After taking in all these wonderful suggestions, one of the members decided to go for it! Here is what Jenn had to say.

Thank you all for all the responses for my son's cowboy room! It's finished and it's great. I used the suggestion for writing "Home on the Range" on the walls. I first painted his walls a denim blue color, then wrote the lyrics to the song at 3 feet off the floor. I then took some rope and tacked it underneath and 6" above the words to "frame it". I replaced all his drawer pulls on his dresser with rope. I tied his curtains back with rope. I hot glued some rope on the edge of his bulletin board to frame it. I bought a really big poster with horses on it for one wall. I took a cowboy hat and some rope I wound up and tacked that to the wall. I bought him a new comforter set...with horses. I also bought him a wood picture that had a little boy with a cowboy hat on feeding three horses...he loved that! I put his horses on his top shelf. The walls looked a little plain still, even with the border, so I bought some colored glow-in-the-dark stars from Wal-Mart and put those on the top half of the wall and the ceiling. That was the perfect touch! All and all the room cost about $100, because the comforter set was from JC Penney! :( We all love it!

Thanks for the great ideas!

~ Jenn

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Kim Tilley is the mother of three boys and the owner of Frugal-Moms.com at http://frugal-moms.com

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