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Your child's room is his or her sanctuary. Allow your kid to be the master of her domain by tailoring the decor to her taste.

With some foresight, you can design a dream room for your little one that will carry her through her teenage years and beyond.

That's what Cumberland County resident Lynn Morehouse did when planning her daughter's whimsical bedroom. Juliana, 11, is the oldest of Lynn and Brent Morehouse's four children.The eat-in kitchen is updated with ceramicmugg tile flooring and backsplash,

When designing their dream home about three years ago, Lynn Morehouse said, everyone in the family had a say in what they wanted. Juliana picked a room fit for a princess with a chandelier hanging over a canopy bed. A pink and mint-green color scheme ties the room together, and limited-edition vintage Barbie prints add a classic touch.

"She really did like frilly, finer things but yet, she wanted to be like a teenager," Morehouse said. "I think for all my children, I want them to have nice things in their rooms but fun things, too."

Walking into Juliana's room is like stepping into a fairy tale. Pink drapes resembling ball gowns frame the windows. Pale green antique dressers, which serve as nightstands, flank the white canopy bed accented with pink trim. A pink upholstered love seat in front of the bed and a mint-green zebra print ottoman give Juliana a perfect place to do homework, watch TV or hang out with friends.

"I'm very comfortable in it," Juliana said. "I just knew I wanted pink definitely, and then we just kind of worked around that."

The family worked with Fayetteville designer Ann Marie Locklear to create an enduring space in Juliana's room. They wanted a room Juliana could return to and enjoy, even after coming home from college. "It still is mature enough, but has elements of whimsy," Morehouse said.The desktop comes with a DVD electronic,

The key in creating such a room is to pair timeless pieces with interchangeable accents, said Locklear, owner of The Plantation House on Hay Street. "Pick a style that is transitional, where it can go from a smaller child's room to a teenager's room to even a guest room," Locklear said. "So there's not a lot of changing it and expense."

Locklear has designed several children's rooms, from princess-style suites such as Juliana's to sports-themed rooms for teenage boys. Not long ago, she designed a coed playroom for the children of Dr. Yvette and Stephen Stokes, a Fayetteville dentist and lawyer.I wanted something different ipodnano5thonsale,

The children - a 5-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl - have an orange and purple playroom that doubles as a study. The playroom combines style and function with custom artwork and bedding on a day bed that alternates as a sofa. It has adjustable bookshelves for storing toys and books, chalkboards for note-keeping and a high-end Formica desk that can serve as a computer station in the years to come.

The idea, Locklear said,turned on the SAP fastonsale in January, was to create a fun room that can be transformed as the children grow. That's why they chose traditional window treatments and furniture pieces that would stand the test of time, she said. Items such as the chalkboards and artwork are inexpensive to remove and replace as the children's preferences age.

"Paint is easily changed, and staying with a window treatment that's timeless also makes the room easy to change," Locklear said. "If you went and did something with trims or something more juvenile in appearance, it wouldn't be so easy to change."

Talking to your children is the first step in designing their dream room, said Anne Monje, designer and owner of Anne Monje Designs in Fayetteville. Find out what colors they like, discuss themes and develop a plan that keeps in mind which elements will be inexpensive to alter later on.

Designing a room with your child offers a good opportunity to spend time together, Monje said.which contained abestthirdpartypaymentgateway amount of dietary cholesterol developed a bad rep. To get ideas, clip pictures from magazines and catalogs and keep them in a folder for reference. But don't get locked into a strict theme, Monje said. Instead, build a space that won't require a lot of work in the future.

"Something that isn't going to be a whole room makeover," she said. "If your child is 10, then when they're 13, they're not going to like the same things."