10 Creative Bedroom Schemes to Brighten Your Child’s Day
Do something different with your child’s bedroom and encourage them to dream outside the box
Whether you want to create a snuggly spot to read, a teepee hidy-hole for a snooze with a favourite pet, or a wonder wall of maps to inspire your child’s travels when they grow up, any one of these fun bedroom decorating ideas will delight your little one and probably earn you lots of hugs and kisses (and maybe even heartfelt thanks and eye contact from a teen).
Set up a permanent camp
Set up a teepee in a corner of the room, which can do double duty as an adventurous place to read and a bolthole for when your child craves some time alone.
Portable kids’ tents are ideal choices for both reading and retreating. This is because they are calming and always seem to create a cosy, cocoon-like atmosphere. As they are also attractive to pets, it won’t be uncommon for your youngster to find a welcome and fluffy friend curled up inside.
Set up a teepee in a corner of the room, which can do double duty as an adventurous place to read and a bolthole for when your child craves some time alone.
Portable kids’ tents are ideal choices for both reading and retreating. This is because they are calming and always seem to create a cosy, cocoon-like atmosphere. As they are also attractive to pets, it won’t be uncommon for your youngster to find a welcome and fluffy friend curled up inside.
Map out a wall of wonder
One way to brighten up a room instantly is to cover an entire wall with a map of the world. Pint-sized explorers will never tire of finding their country or pointing out exotic realms and far-flung places they learn about at school.
A map is also a great way of keeping track of any travels someone in your family is undertaking, and can even inspire your tiny tot to take up travels in the future.
One way to brighten up a room instantly is to cover an entire wall with a map of the world. Pint-sized explorers will never tire of finding their country or pointing out exotic realms and far-flung places they learn about at school.
A map is also a great way of keeping track of any travels someone in your family is undertaking, and can even inspire your tiny tot to take up travels in the future.
String up a study station
As some kids will baulk at having to sit up at a desk to complete homework, go with the flow and make their space more fluid and fun.
A suspended chair or hammock can be where they hang out to study – a laptop can easily be propped up on a cushion or their knees – but also provide extra seating for when their friends come over. This is likely to be a real hit with older kids and teens.
As some kids will baulk at having to sit up at a desk to complete homework, go with the flow and make their space more fluid and fun.
A suspended chair or hammock can be where they hang out to study – a laptop can easily be propped up on a cushion or their knees – but also provide extra seating for when their friends come over. This is likely to be a real hit with older kids and teens.
Paint a dreamscape on the ceiling
Launch your kids’ dreams into orbit with a vibrant, out-of-this-world mural painted on the ceiling. The one pictured here is done by hand and cleverly incorporates the central light as the sun. This is done by painting the sun’s rays around the pendant, then balls painted as planets are hung in expanding orbits around the sun.
The imaginative use of upper space in this bedroom provides a whimsical way to inspire sleep and dreaming each evening.
Launch your kids’ dreams into orbit with a vibrant, out-of-this-world mural painted on the ceiling. The one pictured here is done by hand and cleverly incorporates the central light as the sun. This is done by painting the sun’s rays around the pendant, then balls painted as planets are hung in expanding orbits around the sun.
The imaginative use of upper space in this bedroom provides a whimsical way to inspire sleep and dreaming each evening.
Drape decorative pompoms
Brightly coloured pompoms can add a punch of colour and festive fun to a playroom, and even older children will love them. Make a mobile from a string of pompoms, thread them through an open headboard or drape them across a window ledge.
If you feel like getting crafty with your youngster, why not make your own paper pompoms?
Follow these super-easy instructions to make your own honeycomb paper decorations
Brightly coloured pompoms can add a punch of colour and festive fun to a playroom, and even older children will love them. Make a mobile from a string of pompoms, thread them through an open headboard or drape them across a window ledge.
If you feel like getting crafty with your youngster, why not make your own paper pompoms?
Follow these super-easy instructions to make your own honeycomb paper decorations
Create clever toy storage
This low and practical shelving unit has plenty of baskets within easy reach for busy toddlers to encourage them to tidy up their toys after play. The natural woven baskets are soft on little hands and their knobbly weave makes them easy to grab.
This unit isn’t bright or ‘fun’, but let’s face it, not every element in a child’s room has to be colourful for it to get a thumbs-up from the kids.
This low and practical shelving unit has plenty of baskets within easy reach for busy toddlers to encourage them to tidy up their toys after play. The natural woven baskets are soft on little hands and their knobbly weave makes them easy to grab.
This unit isn’t bright or ‘fun’, but let’s face it, not every element in a child’s room has to be colourful for it to get a thumbs-up from the kids.
Mount a guitar rack
If your teen likes to play guitar but has to keep it stored away in a case, a cool guitar rack like this should be a hit. It’s a custom-made design that features moulded hands, which hold the necks of the guitars, affixed under a floating bookshelf. Next to this, a small box unit has been hung on the wall to store an amplifier.
If your teen likes to play guitar but has to keep it stored away in a case, a cool guitar rack like this should be a hit. It’s a custom-made design that features moulded hands, which hold the necks of the guitars, affixed under a floating bookshelf. Next to this, a small box unit has been hung on the wall to store an amplifier.
Be playful with lights
Here’s a fun idea – incorporate lighting into a bedroom mural. In this fun playroom, a shopfront has been created using yellow tape on a white wall, while the light bulbs outlined in black make a strong impact.
What’s more, these lights could easily be adapted into different wall art as your child’s interests develop over time.
Browse wall lights that don’t need wiring in
Here’s a fun idea – incorporate lighting into a bedroom mural. In this fun playroom, a shopfront has been created using yellow tape on a white wall, while the light bulbs outlined in black make a strong impact.
What’s more, these lights could easily be adapted into different wall art as your child’s interests develop over time.
Browse wall lights that don’t need wiring in
Create a gallery of artwork
Provide a fun focal point in the room by hanging up your child’s artwork clipped to thin wires. The clips mean you can easily rotate the artwork whenever your little one creates new illustrations for you to exhibit.
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Provide a fun focal point in the room by hanging up your child’s artwork clipped to thin wires. The clips mean you can easily rotate the artwork whenever your little one creates new illustrations for you to exhibit.
TELL US…
Do you have kids at home? How have you brought delight to their bedroom décor? Share your tips and photos in the Comments below.
Little learners will love to read in a comfy place where they can spread out and loll about. For this reason, position seating close to the floor – a squishy beanbag on a warm rug will suffice. This will set the scene for a relaxing and leisurely reading session.
Keep toys packed away to help youngsters concentrate during story time, and make sure you include a library full of books as the main feature of the nook, no matter how makeshift.