Postby Beautiful Soup » Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:09 pm
Here's a copy of a similar question I answered on another website:
Q: How do you make your room Alice in Wonderland themed - I have pink walls and white furniture. I'm able to buy items however I'm on a budget so I cannot be too OTT. I am 19 so my room must be mature?
A: Playing cards are a prominent theme (and affordable.) You could blu-tac cards to your walls and/or stick them to the top of your desk. Or you could draw and cut out larger versions of the emblems for the suits - hearts, spades etc - and stick those to the front of a chest of drawers.
A chess set would be an appropriate addition - you could get a cheap one and set it up, or Alice in Wonderland themed chess sets are also available.
Black and white checks are a motif you might be able to exploit as you have white furniture which you could paint black checks onto.
Mushrooms are an image people associate with Alice in Wonderland. You could paint some on card or paper, cut them out and stick them on your walls as though they are growing out of the floor.
The tea party is a memorable moment, so tea cups and tea pots would make good decorative items. You could keep bits and pieces in the cups or use a tea pot as a planter. Check thrift stores or charity shops for ceramic tea things. They frequently have cake stands which you could decorate with knitted or wooden cakes, or use to display jewellery or cosmetics.
Red roses are significant, so you could maybe buy a miniature rose pot plant, or buy items decorated with red roses.
You should have a bottle labelled 'drink me' somewhere. You could either buy a decorative bottle somewhere and label it, or visit a shop which sells dolls house furniture and/or crafts and buy a tiny little one.
If you find a good supplier of dolls house stuff you could even make a miniature scene of the tea party maybe, or perhaps the room in the White Rabbit's house where Alice gets trapped.
Any distortion of scale adds a Wonderland feel to a room, whether it's very tiny things, or very large things, so as well as miniature stuff try to find outsized objects. Giant chess sets are available, you can also get huge cups and saucers (which are supposed to be used as planters.)
Personally, I would try to get hold of some of those plastic garden flamingos that were so popular in the USA in the 1950s, but these are rather kitsch, so I think this is dependent on your sense of humour.
I'd also try to find a good white rabbit plushy or try the Disney Store for a character plushy, but I wouldn't have more than one of these as cuddly toys are really associated with younger people.
If you're a fan of the original books, then a hard boiled egg painted to look like Humpty Dumpty would sit well on the shelf of a bookcase.
Consider the prominent and most appealing images in whichever is your favourite version of the story and see if you can think of a way to reproduce them.
And have fun!
