Bandanas are a unique way to add color and interest to a child's bedroom. People who love all things country and western, will enjoy the cowboy look they add to the décor. For children who are especially interested in horses, adding the bright colored head scarves, is a fast and simple way to give bedrooms a western feel. Since they come in just about any color, they are great for boys or girls’ rooms or even for nursery rooms. A plus is that a room can be changed quickly and easily redone if the child tires of the look.
Shopping for Bandanas
Decorative scarves can be purchased at craft and hobby stores. Often department and clothing stores carry them as well. The craft stores usually carry a large variety of styles and colors. A child’s room may be accented with the bright colors to spruce up the room, or with his favorite tones to personalize his area. The colors and patterns vary.
Since the colors and patterns look especially good with denim fabric, and also with wood tones and solid colors, bandanas can be matched to almost any room décor. They come mainly in one size. If more surface is needed fabric can be purchased by the yard at fabric shops in the most popular colors - red, yellow, and blue.
Furniture Scarves
One simple way to add bandanas is to use them as accents by using them to cover a dresser top or bedside table, as you would use a doily or tablecloth. The best thing about using these for scarves is that they have no raw edges which would need to be hemmed. A few of them can be easily sewn together end to end to make a scarf long enough.
A piece of cotton print fabric could be used for the table or for a bed ruffle to match.
Drape the bandanas over the arms of a comfy chair or the back of a wall hanging or picture. Tying a knot in each corner of the square will give it a different look. Hung point down from the top edge of a mirror, for an interesting effect.
Decorating Ideas
An empty picture frame with a square of folded bandana creates a work of art to decorate a wall. The scarf is folded into an interesting pattern and then spray starched and well ironed. Placed behind the glass in a frame, it presents a distinctive design and touch of color.
A small photo of a western theme can be framed using the bandana stretched over cardboard for the background. The photo is mounted to with glue to the center and covered with the glass. Then it is framed and hung.
Instead of a net sling, several bandanas can be strung together by tying their corners together in knots. This sling is hung across a corner of a bedroom to hold for display stuffed animals or other light toys.
To make throw pillows, a decorator can simply sew two bandanas together with the right sides facing, leaving a three-inch opening in one side. Then the material is turned right-side-out and stuffed it with polyester filling (found at a craft or fabric store).
A ten-inch length of elastic attached to the bandana at the top and bottom edges, will allow books and unsightly items in the room to be covered to match.
Window Treatments
A decorator with sewing skills can make simple curtains with bandana-printed fabric. Blue denim curtains can be spruced up by attaching scarves across the top. A valance of bandanas tied or stitched together with a corner point hanging down creates a nice topper for solid colored curtains. Folded in half from corners, they form a flag-like valance when hung over the curtain rod and held in place by colorful buttons attached at intervals.
Decorating with bandanas, from adding a couple of scarves to sewing curtains, is simple and gives the room a western touch and easily adds splashes of bright color to a room’s décor.
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