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Show Rooms should grow up with teens i into a room that reflects the growing interests of a teenager. As girls grow up, so should their rooms! If your daughter's daugh-ter's bedroom was last decorated decor-ated while she was a pre-teen, it's time to give her room a new grown-up look. Perhaps she'd like to do the redecorating redecor-ating herself. For a dramatic dressing table, ta-ble, place vanity table near a window and top with a canopy of wide-striped chintz, denim or sailcloth. Mount the canopy on awning-shaped curtain rods; repeat the fabric as a frame for mirror and as a chair cushion. To solve limited-space problems, prob-lems, fashion a dressing table that double's as a desk. Two small chests, plus a plywood shelf stretched across them, will create a convenient desk-vanity. desk-vanity. Cover the plywood with plastic-coated paper in a feminine or modern pattern; complete the effect by covering cover-ing a vanity wastebasket to match. Teens are noted for their love of collecting mementos such as snapshots, theatre programs pro-grams and the like. Accommodate Accommo-date this delightful bent by placing 'peg-board along part of one wall. Travel posters, attached with masking tape for easy removal, re-moval, also make colorful and enexpensive wall decorations. Little touches such as these can help change a little-girl room |