PB Teen

Serena & Lily

Garnet Hill

Teen Idols: Decorative Accessories

HomeYet.com scours popular tween- and teen-focused websites to find new decorative accessories that let shoppers create a personalized and organized bedroom.

PB Teen’s customizable Style Tiles let today’s tweens and teens organize and display photos, mementos, notes, to-do lists and more. Hang a set (up to 16 tiles total) by a desk, above a dresser or in any space where extra organization is needed. Each 16-inch-square tile mounts, by a patent-pending system, either directly to the wall or on a frame. An interactive tool at PB Teen lets the tween or teen choose from a dry erase board, mirror, raffia, corkboard, fabric-covered tackboard or chalkboard tiles.

It may be a while away before today’s teens are furnishing their own apartments. But CB2, the affordable go-to brand for urban apartments dwellers, is a great resource for tween and teen room accessories that will encourage organization and offer more storage. Tree-shaped bookends or wire baskets are workhorses on any desk or shelf; a metal can filled with colorful paper clips is a cool gift that brings levity to any workspace.

Like their older brother or sister, the cool tweens want to shop at lifestyle merchants such as Urban Outfitters. And for good reason: the merchant’s poufs and ottomans add extra seating when friends visit. Urban Outfitters’ sister brand Anthropologie, meanwhile, offers a variety of drawer knobs and pulls, hooks and door knobs at that can transform a hand-me-down dresser into a OMG statement.

Serena & Lily’s latest foray is into living room furniture, including sofas, upholstered chairs and accent tables. But the lifestyle brand’s new Zodiac accessories—pillows and wall decor—offer an instant way to personalize a room in a manner that reminds a tween or teen of her special characteristics, as dictated by her birth sign. Plus, check out the alphabet letter wall decor, which lets the shopper spell out words and names of her choice.

In its kids’ collection, Garnet Hill offers mix-and-match bedding and bath accessories that allow tweens and teens to create customized bedding ensembles and coordinate towels and shower curtains. Teens will also appreciate the polka-dot comforters, striped shams, solid cotton fleece blankets and throws, and percale sheets. Meanwhile, sheet sets featuring ponies, monsters, peace symbols, surfboards, rockets and poodles are designed to appeal to the young—and the young at heart.