"Private," personal spaces such as the teenage bedroom are arguably one of the first spaces within which young people are able to articulate and represent their social and cultural lives, their transitions, experiences, aspirations, and identities. In this article, the author explores how bedrooms can be understood as constantly evolving and changing "material" spaces within which objects play an important role for young people in their articulations of youth culture in everyday life. Using Henri Lefebvre’s work on social space as a framework, the author argues that such spaces can be understood both as complex, rich "containers of meaning" within which teenagers articulate their current youth biographies as well as spaces within which "residual trails" can be found, thus a teenage bedroom takes on an important historical dimension, the space of which tells tales about its occupants, present and past.