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Matthew and Dayid play in
a room that would delight. any
child. Keeping the star motif
from Matthew's babyhood,
Mrs. Hollander "found a Cray-
ola program on the computer
that had space drawings that
the children liked," then "had
a talented baby sitter enlarge
them and draw them on the
walls. We painted for two
weeks, and the children
helped. We had a good time."
The rocket motif on the bed
linens echoes the space theme,
and blue-and-white pillows with
the boys' names add a finishing
touch. The children's toys are
kept in crates from Office Max.
A recent addition to the
room is a desk father Harvey
Hollander, an interior designer,
found at a garage sale. All the
desk needs is hardware in the
shape of stars or moons to
make it an integral part of
Spaceship Hollander said.
The Hollanders' daughter,
Julia, meanwhile, "has her
own little rose garden," says
Mrs. Hollander.
A residential-space planner
and organizer, Mrs. Hollander
stenciled colorful flowers be-
low a lace-curtained window
and added a real picket fence
to guard the blooms from pre-
tend marauders.
To add to the make-believe,
doll-sized furniture is arranged
near the "garden" in case the
dolls or stuffed animals want to
have a tea party.
Julia's white-wicker chest of
drawers is from Pier One,
while an antique nightstand
has been refinished and paint-
ed white.
"The bed's white-wicker
headboard was used — by me,
when I was single," Mrs. Hol-

lander said. Other mementos
and paintings she owned now
adorn the walls of her dau
ter's room.
To complete the garden
mood, there are two rugs with
green backgrounds, one with a
flower motif and the other in a
trellis design. -
Judee Colton of West
Bloomfield also opted to deco-
rate her daughters' rooms in a
distinctly feminine style. But

The Hollanders love the result.

here it's birds and fantasy fig-
ures that fill the home.
Ms. Colton, an interior de-
signer, was inspired by her chil-
dren's love of fairy tales and
Disney characters when she set
out to decorate the rooms of
Lindsay, 6, and Robyn, 5.
"I wanted to create rooms
for them that were feminine,
traditional and had a three-di-
mensional, fairy-tale quality,"
she said.
From the ceiling in Lindsay's
room, Ms. Colton hung fishnet
that holds colorful birds, upon
which ride cloth dolls dressed
in gold. Over the bed in
Robyn's room, the seven
dwarfs, made from wood and
purchased at an antique shop,
keep watch (no sign of Snow
White, however).
Using white lattice from

Builders Square, Ms. Colton
created a fantasy garden for
Lindsay. She placed the lattice
around the lower part of the
entire room.
"I added huge, rose-toned
silk flowers as big as cabbages
that I bought from a Christmas-
display wholesaler, then used a
staple gun to hang them
around the room," she said. As
a final touch, she covered the
staples with silk leaves and ivy.
"Lindsay's
room is basically
white, so the
colorful acces-
sories will show
up," she added.
Inexpensive
white-wicker
bookshelves
from Pier One,
an antique mir-
ror from
Schmidt's An-
tiques in Ypsilan- K
ti, a lamp with flowers and an
old dresser which was spray-
painted white complete the
decor.
Like Mrs. Frank and Mrs.
Hollander, Ms. Colton said she
spent a modest amount of
money decorating and furnish-
ing her children's rooms.
Costs were kept down
through recycling, refinishing
and the use of many objects
made by hand.
Has Matthew Hollander's
star gazing turned him into a
potential astronaut?
It could be. At a recent fami-
ly Chanukah party, where
Matthew received a present of
boxer shorts adorned with (nat-
urally) stars, he expressed a de-
sire to those assembled that
they all "go into space and have
a party there some day." ❑