trying to get a child with ASD to get their bedroom redecorated

We have just managed to do a full redecoration..even new skirting boards the whole lot! We even managed to get her to part with an entire midi skips worth of toys and general rubbish..how? Well first of all she got to sleep in my bed ( the hubby relegated to the settee ) we then had everyone involved in the mass clear out and allowed her to keep ( what appeared to her ) to be almost everything! Once the room began to look empty and less like her "bedroom" and more of a building site she was no longer concerned about the old and focused on what the new was going to be. We let her pick paint and wallpaper ( steered in a general direction I approved of ) so I went B&Q and got a ton of wallpaper samples and stuck them all over the walls - I didn't take her with me as this would have been disastorous, then once paper chosen I did the same with paint colour. i should point out my girl is not a girly girl and has no interests in fashion, colour or anything like that. I only made one mistake and that was allowing her to come bed shopping as she laid on a two grand bed and declared she only wanted that one! 

She is now completely at ease in her new organised and clean space and seems none the worse for any of the original anxieties around doing it! Wish we had done it years ago! 

We have just managed to do a full redecoration..even new skirting boards the whole lot! We even managed to get her to part with an entire midi skips worth of toys and general rubbish..how? Well first of all she got to sleep in my bed ( the hubby relegated to the settee ) we then had everyone involved in the mass clear out and allowed her to keep ( what appeared to her ) to be almost everything! Once the room began to look empty and less like her "bedroom" and more of a building site she was no longer concerned about the old and focused on what the new was going to be. We let her pick paint and wallpaper ( steered in a general direction I approved of ) so I went B&Q and got a ton of wallpaper samples and stuck them all over the walls - I didn't take her with me as this would have been disastorous, then once paper chosen I did the same with paint colour. i should point out my girl is not a girly girl and has no interests in fashion, colour or anything like that. I only made one mistake and that was allowing her to come bed shopping as she laid on a two grand bed and declared she only wanted that one! 

She is now completely at ease in her new organised and clean space and seems none the worse for any of the original anxieties around doing it! Wish we had done it years ago!