An updated version of a backlist best-seller, The New Smart Approach to® Kids' Rooms offers sensible advice to parents who need help decorating and furnishing their children's rooms. The book presents hundreds of ideas for solving the issues of working with space and color, developing a budget, and selecting age-appropriate design themes. It provides sensible advice for buying a mattress, selecting furniture, and choosing window treatments and flooring. In addition, there are lots of ideas for organizing storage, play, work, and sleep areas, as well as how to create a room that will be shared by two. Individual, age-specific chapters focus on the needs of newborns, toddlers, young school-age children, and teenagers. 336 lavish color photographs accompany lots of "Smart Steps" and "Smart Tips" throughout the book.