Pick a Style

• Flowers' popularity for bedroom decor means you have no shortage of design options, from contemporary patterns to very traditional looks, all featuring the shapes and colors of blossoms. For a bold look, choose bedding and paintings with blown-up images of flowers. Finnish design house Marimekko (marimekko.fi) offers an array of textiles that incorporate large-scale blooms in all colors. For artwork, Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings also offer close-up images of flowers. For a more traditional style, stick to a palette of pastels with images of flowers at a smaller scale.
  
  

Single Species Designs

• Decorating with a single type of flower can help tie your girl's bedroom together. For example, for a pastel purple color scheme, find curtains, bedding and artwork featuring lavender flowers. Carry the theme throughout the room by hanging a bunch of dried lavender on a wall, arranging it in a vase or filling a bowl with the dried blossoms. Popular flowers like roses, daisies or tulips also work well for a theme, as you can easily find materials with images of those flowers. For a hands-on decorating project, cut a sponge into the iconic shape of a tulip or a daisy and sponge-paint the flowers on the wall.
  
  

Minimal Touches

• For an innovative take on a floral motif, go minimalist. Place individual artificial flowers in bud vases, scattered throughout the room. Instead of paintings of bouquets or flowerbeds, opt for small images of single blossoms. Use color to draw the eye to minimal floral touches. For instance, match the vibrant reds or oranges of silk chrysanthemums to a few throw pillows on the bed. Select a frame that picks up the color of a photograph of a single, bright-colored bloom.
  
  

Creative Interpretations

• Instead of traditional decor, bring the garden into your girl's bedroom with creative, homemade flowers. Layer colors of tissue paper and tie them together in the middle, fanning the edges outward in the shape of a fully opened blossom. Affix them directly to the walls or hang them on green garland to simulate stems. To create the illusion of a garden indoors, lay down green carpeting or green rugs to simulate grass. Paint a white picket fence along the walls with blue paint above. Sponge-paint fluffy white clouds. Affix plastic flower pots to the picket fence posts. Inside, "plant" silk flowers.