Have fun learning how to design your space while being kind to the environment. If you are interested in creating a new color scheme, selecting new accessories for a room, or choosing new floor and window covers, this is the project for you.

• Master the elements and principles of design to make your house a home
• Plan home living spaces in keeping with the needs of family members
• Develop your skill in caring for home furnishings and accessories
• Explore opportunities for environmentally friendly choices in your home

Ideas for Project Area Learning!

• Uncover and compare costs to design and accessorize your space
• Practice choosing wall treatments, window coverings, and floors
• Discover how paint, wall treatments, flooring, and window coverings create different effects in a room
• Plan your space using needs, wants, and timelines to make choices
• Create design boards to visualize living spaces
• Coordinate fabrics and patterns
• Experiment with the arrangement of photos on a wall for different effects
• Showcase favorite room accessories
• Examine environmentally friendly practices: reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink

Share What You Learn with Others!

Communication

• Share with friends how to select a color scheme for their bedroom
• Develop a step-by-step checklist showing how to cover a headboard using padding and fabric
• Create a video showing how to be energy efficient in homes

Citizenship

• Assist an elderly person with painting their living room
• Share with family and friends how to keep living spaces safe
• Show local museum staff how to properly arrange, protect, and display historical items

Leadership

• Show siblings how a shared space can be divided using furniture placement
• Teach adults proper disposal methods of refinishing materials
• Work with a non-profit in creating a functional meeting space floor plan

Exhibit Ideas

• Refinish a family antique chair, table, stand, or dresser
• Illustrate how various wall coverings and flooring have different effects in livings spaces
• Create a poster that provides examples of elements of different furniture styles
• Develop a design board showing how an existing floor plan can be transformed to a more functional floor plan
• Identify the pros and cons of starting an organizational business to help clients develop spaces for items they use and need

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