Mother’s Day idea: PLEASE Make Your Bed
Brush your hair, brush your teeth, and PLEASE make your bed. Daily reminders by you-know-who: Mom. You hear those words every single day. Up the stairs, down the hall and over a bowl of cereal. Geez. You roll your eyes and give a sigh. I’m 11 years old and I know how to do it. Truly I can - just not right now.
Well here’s your chance to prove it - a golden opportunity. It’s almost Mother’s Day. If you want to do something she’ll truly appreciate, then here’s a simple idea for you. Show your mother how her gentle prodding, repeated requests, ardent appeals, and predictable pleas have not been in vain. Show her she is being heard by you - even acknowledged. Try it on her special day.
Grab the hair and tooth brushes. Pull yourself together nice and neat. It’s not for you - it’s for your mother. The person who loves and cares enough to remind her daughter each (and every) day. It may sound sappy, but mom will be delighted and full of pride. You’ll make her very happy - and PLEASE make your bed.
PLEASE make your Bed: Young America Cameo Low Post Bed
PLEASE make your Bed: Young America Bunk Bed
PLEASE make Your Bed: Young America All Seasons Slat Bed
Say Yes to Pink in a Girl’s Room
Even a hint of pink can catch one’s eye. Softly delicate like a Magnolia flower or a cluster of apple blossoms. Lightly fragrant and pure. Pinks make us smile and fill us with the same sense of joy as a new baby or a child’s rosy cheeks. Pink is a color we love - it’s fresh and alive.
Too much pink is like eating too much candy. Too sweet! But don’t hesitate to use pink in a nursery or a girl’s room. Embrace its quiet energy and warmth. It’s the quality of the pinks, not quantity that matters. And it’s a matter of your taste and style. Ask yourself what you want for your home.
Here are a few simple guidelines:
1) Find the pink or pinks you love
2) Decide if pinks will be focal points (furniture) or accents (lamps, artwork, walls, bedding) or a combination. In other words, consider the “amounts” of pink.
3) Mix and match pinks with complementary and contrasting colors (blues, greens, browns) until you find the composition, balance and feeling you like.
Using pinks or any color in a room is like being a painter - try a dab here and a dab there rather than throwing the whole bucket on at one time. Keep it simple. Less is often more in a child’s bedroom - and in your home. Create a soothing space with pinks and make sure you have fun!
The balance of pinks with crisp white furniture make this room cheerful, inviting and bright. A few blues and greens give it some contrast and pop.
shown: Young America myHaven Collection in white
Pink cribs are sweet, joy-filled confections in a baby girl’s bedroom.
shown: Young America Built To Grow Slat Crib in cotton candy
Vintage decorative details, fine textures, and soft greens combine beautifully with pink.
shown: Young America Built To Grow Crib in cotton candy
Small amounts of pink help soften large amounts of white with warmth.
shown: Young America Isabella Armoire in white
A mix of pinks in solids and patterns is just right - even sophisticated.
shown: Isabella Panel Bed in peach
Give a Room Spirit with a Young America furniture Yellow
Experience the warm glow of a yellow bedroom. Luminous yellows radiate. Day or night, they are unexpectedly soft and spirited - like the tight squeeze of a child’s hug or a summer’s breeze. So full of life. Young America furniture’s Sunflower is a yellow that combines easily with blues, oranges - even reds. Mixed and matched, Sunflower is fresh and bright. Bring golden sunshine into your nursery or child’s bedroom.
Young America furniture’s All Seasons Low Post Bedroom in Sunflower
Sea Grass, so Beachy & Bright
What’s color all about? Our senses. Familiar sounds, smells and sights. Surround your child with Young America Sea Grass for radiant warmth, fresh summer air, and lighthearted spirit. Sea Grass is perfect as a unifying color or a companion to others - dark and light. It’s a color your child will never outgrow.
Mix Spindle Bed with complementary Sea Grass greens
A room full of Sea Grass (bed style no longer available)
