NASCAR Decorating Tips

If you are one of the millions of NASCAR fans then you may want to extend your NASCAR fascination to your bedroom, or to the dÃ?©cor of your kids’ bedrooms. If you would like to create your very own NASCAR room then you will need to establish a budget, create a design plan, and find the materials that you need for you room.

CREATE A BUDGET

Creating a budget is perhaps the most dreaded of all decorating tasks. You may have ideas about what you want, and you may already have ideas of what you want in your room, but if you don’t establish a budget before you start shopping you may find yourself out of money before your room is completed. You budget will need to have a total amount that you can spend on your room, and then a detailed breakdown of how much money you want to spend on the main decorating items such as paint, window treatments, bedding, furniture, lighting, and miscellaneous materials. If you go under budget on one category you can also transfer that money to another expense category.

CREATING A DESIGN PLAN

Your design plan will be your guide in how your room will come together. This process can be as informal as jotting down a few notes, to a scale drawing of the room with colored design features laid out in the room. If you are somewhere in between these two design plans techniques then you can cut and paste photographs from magazines and printouts of items and colors that you want to use in your design. Which ever method you use you will want to establish the following things for your design plan:

1. What you color palette will be
2. If you will need to buy furniture
3. If you will be refurbishing your old furniture
4. What items and materials you will need to purchase

SHOPPING

Shopping for the items that you want is the best part of the design process. However, if you don’t have a game plan before you set off you can overspend on items, or buy other nonessentials items for the room on an impulse which will put you over your budget. To stay on budget you will want to create a shopping list and look for the best prices.

Paint is the base of your room. It will be the element that will draw all your elements together. To select your base paint color and your accents you can use colors from your favorite NASCAR, or you can select traditional race colors of red, black, and white. If you have a large paint budget you can go to a specialty paint store that can match the color of your favorite NASCAR for about $20 to $40 a gallon. If you are on a slightly tighter paint budget discount department stores like Wal-mart have a good selection of paint colors to choose from that run about $10 to $15 per gallon.

FURNITURE

NASCAR furniture is easy to find. However, it can be expensive. To find the best deals you will want to comparison shop at local retailers as well as online stores that carry NASCAR furniture. You can find a NASCAR fiber ottoman at Buy.com. For NASCAR themed chairs you have a couple of options. If you are looking for a NASCAR video rocker then you can go to Dick’s Sporting or the Sports Authority to pick this item up online for about $119.99. You can also purchase a bean bag video game chair with a NASCAR theme for $119.99 at Everything Furniture. Most other online stores retail this item for $139.99. If you want a plush NASCAR recliner then there are several models to choose from including a child’s recliner retailed for about $119.99 at Buy.com, an adult size Jimmie Johnson 48 blue and white recliner at Target that retails for about $549.99, as well as several other driver themed NASCAR for around the same price. If you would like to include a sofa then there is one available at SportsKids, which retails for $1,058.99.

WALLPAPER

After painting the walls you may want to increase the NASCAR feel of the room by adding a decorative wallpaper boarder either at the ceiling wall boundary, or at the chair-rail level. There are many different NASCAR wallpaper borders that you can choose from. Each border roll will generally cover a bout 15 linear feet, so to ensure that you purchase enough wall paper to cover the designated area in your NASCAR room, and to allow for matching ends you will want to measure the length of your walls and add about 10 to 20%, and then divide that number by 15 feet. This will give you the number of rolls you will need.

You can purchase NASCAR wallpaper borders and finish appliqu�©s at department stores and online stores. One online store that carries a wide selection of NASCAR wallpaper borders is Interior Mall located at http://www.interiormall.com. Here you will find a variety of NASCAR borders and wallpaper finish appliqu�©s.

OTHER ITEMS

After getting the basic items for your NASCAR room, your final tasks will be to accessorize the room with a few more decorations. You can find NASCAR bedding at the following online stores: FamilyBedding.com, USAHomeFashions.com, ImageBedding.com, and Kidsfan-attic.com. You can find NASCAR picture frames at the following online stores: Sportscases.com, Innovasporttours.com, and Universal Shopping. If you are looking for a few framed NASCAR displays then you may find the following items of interest:: “Mounted Memories Framed NASCAR Photo of Kurt Busch” found at Christopher’s Games, “NASCAR Tracks” a framed 20 inch by 24 inch aerial photograph found at FansEdge, or a wide angle framed art print of the Charlotte Racetrack found at the Gallery Direct Art website.