Ideas for a Lime Green and Skateboarding Bedroom

Creating Your Color Palette

• A strong color like lime green can look fabulous or hideous, depending on how you use it. Tone down lime green walls with neutral accent colors. Black curtains, bedding and accessories and artwork throughout the room add contrast so the green will pop, but tone it down enough so it isn't an eyesore. Alternately, use a neutral color such as gray for your main color, and add lime green liberally as an accent for trim or a border. Even though it's not the dominant color of the room, it's the boldest, so it will catch attention without overpowering everything.

When Painting Isn't an Option

• If you just can't bring yourself to put lime green on your walls, or if you rent and can't paint walls the color you would like, don't despair. Instead, focus on other ways to bring color into the room. Paint all the furniture lime green, or use bedding or window treatments that incorporate lime green. Get a throw rug with lime green in it to cover the floor. Incorporate additional bold accent colors, such as a vivid violet, lime green's opposite on the color wheel for contrast. Electric blue and bright orange are also suitable choices.

Silhouettes

• One way to play bold and contrasting colors against each other is with silhouettes. Imagine a series of black skateboarder silhouettes on a green wall jumping over the bed, or colorful skateboard silhouettes racing around the room as a wall border. Find images of skate boarders in the midst of fancy moves. Choose a few images with strong outlines and enlarge them. Cut them out and use them as templates to make wall silhouettes. If you have the tools consider making them out of wood. Paint them a color that contrasts and really pops with your wall color. Cardboard cut-outs or stenciled silhouettes will suffice if wood is not an option.

  Alternately, stencil shapes of skate boarders on lamp shades, pillows or across furniture if you don't want to use them as wall art.

Skateboard Accessories

• Use actual skateboards in a skateboard-themed room. Pick some up at second-hand shops. Have your teen paint them if desired in stunning designs, and hang them on the wall as an art display. Use old skateboards as make-shift wall shelves for trophies, books or knick-knacks. If you're handy with tools, remove all the hardware and incorporate skateboards into your own furniture designs. Use the board to create a seat and back support of a chair, the top of a night stand or line them up for a head board.