When Elizabeth Foy Larsen was growing up in the 1970s, she spent an enormous amount of time watching television. But now that she has three children of her own and a four-bedroom Mediterranean-style house filled with computers, TVs and iPads, Ms. Larsen finds herself waging an ongoing battle against screens.
“The decorating-your-room chapter came directly out of having my kids create environments they liked,” she said.
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Her middle child, Henrik, 10, chose for his bedroom walls an orange she compared to “standing in the middle of an orange-juice-concentrate can.” It was a choice that tested her conviction that family governance ought to be a democracy in which the parents wield soft power, rather than a dictatorship.
But Henrik vetoed her suggestions for a subtler shade, and Ms. Larsen conceded: “It’s his room. I wanted him to have it the way that made sense to him.”
Peter, 13, her oldest, is a modern-design fan who picked out his Ikea furniture and, with help from an artist friend of his mother’s, stenciled the Los Angeles skyline above his bed. “He thinks he lives in way too small a town,” Ms. Larsen said.
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