Since your color choices for the walls, bed, and curtains are going to create the main vibe of your room, stay away from pastel colors like pink and yellow. Pastels sometimes give the room a "nursery" atmosphere, but can work if used properly. Avoid colors that are very dark or neon. Gender neutral colors to consider are purple, orange and green. Choose contrasting colors that look trendy, youthful and really pop, like rich dark purple with yellow. Bright red also goes great with purple, and so does black. Stick with neutrals if you like to change your color scheme often. This makes it easier to switch your accent colors. Instead of a full color revamp, you could instead try playing off the color scheme that's there already. By updating and accenting the current color scheme, you can vastly change the appearance of your room. For instance, if your room currently features a lot of pastel pink, update it by adding accent colors like fuchsia, hot pink and chocolate brown. If your room currently features a lot of pastel blue, update it by adding some royal blue accents and maybe even hunter green. Whatever you end up going with, strive to choose colors that contrast and play off one another. Since you're going darker with your color theme, paint only a single "accent" wall in your newly chosen shade. Dark paint on all four walls can make your room feel much smaller and more cramped than it is. Streamlining in any way that makes your room look bigger and less cluttered will make it appear more adult. If your parents are reluctant to let you paint your walls, they will be a lot more willing to allow you to paint just one. Make sure that the paint job is done neatly so that everything looks nice and crisp. If you don't want to paint a wall, then try using peel and stick wall paper, a wall decal or stencil, or a tapestry to accent the wall. As a teenager, pop culture is around you all the time and you probably have evidence of it all over your room already. Use that to your advantage! For example, if you're really into music, collect all of your past concert ticket stubs and display them in a mountable case on the wall. Get rid of band posters unless they are nice enough to frame, then get nice frames for them. You could also use a guitar rack to neatly display your instruments, and maybe even put a keyboard somewhere in your room as a final dash of style. Check out your garage for cool items that you can re-purpose and display in your room. Cut out images and advertisements from magazines to accent the colors in your room in a unique way. Display old license plates on the wall for a colorful, masculine touch. Paint, hang, or display old surfboards, sporting equipment, and typewriters for a mature, vintage style. Get nice frames for anything hanging on the wall. If your walls look bare, try buying some art prints and putting them in matching frames. If you don't own a desk or bookshelf and there's enough room, get one or both of them. Add a throw rug that matches your new color scheme. Throw rugs pull the look of a room together and look very adult. Get a plant for your window sill. Choose something low maintenance, like a fern or potted aloe vera plant. Arrange ore adult-like items on bookshelves, such as pictures and trinkets, and eliminate more juvenile items, such as stuffed animals and toys. Get rid of the teddy bears and firetrucks and go with patterns like bold stripes, simple plaids, or tasteful polka dots. If you aren't sure what kind of design works best, choose bedding and trimmings that are solid colors. Add a dust ruffle to your bed that matches your new color scheme, which will hide any storage and clutter you might have underneath it.

Summary: Choose the right color scheme. Work with the color scheme you have. Paint an accent wall. Add a pop culture flair. Acquire some adult items. Choose a comforter and curtains with a mature pattern.

Young may be 40 or 50. In determining this age you'll want to be reasonable. If you're already 27 with no net worth, it is going to be very difficult to retire at 30, so the first step is setting the age you want to stop working. earn to manage finances. Before you start bringing in the money necessary to retire young you'll want to know how to manage your money. There are countless amounts of stories of people who win the lottery, and end up miserable and penniless. No matter how much money you make it is important to manage it well. Start and stick with a budget. A budget will help you control everything from how much money gets saved to how much money gets spent each month. If you haven't started budgeting already, do it. It's amazing how many people don't know how much money is coming in and going out each month. You can't be responsible like that. . The studies are concrete: People with college degrees on average will make more over the course of their lifetimes than those without. These days a Bachelors Degree is what a High-School Diploma was 20 years ago. Find your passion, and get a degree (and subsequently a job) in that field. Think of a college degree as an investment in your future. The earlier you start saving, the quicker you'll retire. It's a devilishly simple idea, but it's hard to execute, and this is why: we humans value the tangibility and utility of the present over the far-off possibilities of the future. But you're not one of the unthinking masses, are you? You like the idea of saving early and saving often, because you know early retirement is sweet and attainable. In your twenties, experts say that you should at the very least put away 10% of your income straight into savings. This much should be easy to do in your twenties, even if it means you have to skimp a little bit. If you can, save any and all disposable money that isn't used to pay expenses, minus a bit of money for discretionary spending. If you earn $3,000 a month and have $1,500 in bills, squirrel away $1,250 each month and give yourself an extra $250 to do as you please. As in, big time. Increasing your earning potential won't do much good if you increase how much you spend the same amount. To put it simply: If you make $20,000 more per year, but increase your cost of living by $20,000 per year you haven't traveled very far on your road to retiring. Rent instead of buy. Go to the library and rent books instead of buying them and then letting them attract dust forever. Watch movies online instead of buying DVDs. Renting may not make you feel powerful, but it will sure help you feel prudent. Take advantage of free stuff. There are whole websites devoted to people who believe in freecycling. Sign up for a (free) conference and partake in their buffet luncheon. When you travel, try couch-surfing. The world is full of wonderful opportunities to get free stuff; just make sure you're respectful and courteous doing it. Carpool if you can. With the rising cost of gasoline, you can potentially save $200-$300 a month on gasoline alone. This works out to a savings of $2,400-$3,600 per year. Wash your laundry in cold water. Detergent manufacturers sell specially formulated detergents meant for washing clothes in cold water. With cell phones being commonplace, consider whether you really need a land line in your home. If you do need one, some companies offer phone services using the internet, which is cheaper than regular land lines. Use LED or fluorescent bulbs in your home. Not only are they just as bright, but use much less electricity. Buy necessities in bulk. While the initial cost may be higher, you will save money in the long run. This includes water, toiletries, and food.
Summary: Determine exactly what a young age is. . Get a college education Save early, save often. Reduce your expenses.