10 of the Best New Kids’ Rooms on Houzz
Get oodles of ideas for your little ones from these brilliant bedrooms
The design world is packed full of inspiration for charming children’s rooms – the tricky bit is deciding which style to aim for. A neutral base works well if you have lots of toys and decorations, but wacky wallpaper can be fun, too. Just try to work out whether you (or your kids) will tire of it too quickly to make it worth the trouble. Check out these recently uploaded spaces on Houzz and save the ones you like to your own ideabooks.
Find a theme
Take your cue from a treasured toy to give your child’s bedroom a playful air. Here, cute cuddly toys, cushions, bags and books all follow a foxy theme, with further orange elements included throughout.
Get ideas for creating a stylish, gender-neutral child’s room
Take your cue from a treasured toy to give your child’s bedroom a playful air. Here, cute cuddly toys, cushions, bags and books all follow a foxy theme, with further orange elements included throughout.
Get ideas for creating a stylish, gender-neutral child’s room
Play with pastels
What little homebody could resist this adorable corner? A tiny kitchen with a plethora of sugared almond shades set against heavenly harlequin wallpaper and a side of fancy frocks. Play essential.
Turning a corner of a child’s room into a permanent play-acting space is a sweet idea if you have the room – a kitchen or a restaurant is a cute choice for budding chefs, or build a craft station stocked with coloured paper, pens, glitter and modelling clay. Decorate it with as much care as you would a full-size version.
What little homebody could resist this adorable corner? A tiny kitchen with a plethora of sugared almond shades set against heavenly harlequin wallpaper and a side of fancy frocks. Play essential.
Turning a corner of a child’s room into a permanent play-acting space is a sweet idea if you have the room – a kitchen or a restaurant is a cute choice for budding chefs, or build a craft station stocked with coloured paper, pens, glitter and modelling clay. Decorate it with as much care as you would a full-size version.
Raise the roof
This loft conversion made space for a bijou bedroom that’s cool and colourful. With limited wall area, each element of this kid-friendly hideout must earn its keep: a rainbow of books is decorative as well as functional, toys act as accessories, and storage is slotted into every nook and cranny.
This loft conversion made space for a bijou bedroom that’s cool and colourful. With limited wall area, each element of this kid-friendly hideout must earn its keep: a rainbow of books is decorative as well as functional, toys act as accessories, and storage is slotted into every nook and cranny.
Play it cool
Teal floorboards might not seem like a natural choice, but this shade works wonderfully with white walls and primary colours. Animal-themed accessories add the fun factor.
Browse ideas for Scandi-style kids’ rooms
Teal floorboards might not seem like a natural choice, but this shade works wonderfully with white walls and primary colours. Animal-themed accessories add the fun factor.
Browse ideas for Scandi-style kids’ rooms
Work around a wallpaper
Choose a focal-point wallpaper and let it inform the rest of the room’s colour scheme for a pulled-together and calming – but still fun – space.
Here, mother and baby can float off to sleep together in this dreamy nursery. The Beautiful Balloons wallpaper by Claridge House inspires the room’s colour scheme, with touches of ochre and blush pink on a taupe-grey base. A cloud and star mobile completes the floaty feeling.
Choose a focal-point wallpaper and let it inform the rest of the room’s colour scheme for a pulled-together and calming – but still fun – space.
Here, mother and baby can float off to sleep together in this dreamy nursery. The Beautiful Balloons wallpaper by Claridge House inspires the room’s colour scheme, with touches of ochre and blush pink on a taupe-grey base. A cloud and star mobile completes the floaty feeling.
Take it to market
A little shop setup keeps the children happy in this sweet space. Mini gingham curtains match other red accessories and help to make the bedroom feel cosy and creative.
It’s worth hunting down attractive versions of substantial toys, such as shops or kitchens, as they’ll become a long-standing decorative feature in your child’s space. You could also have something made, or upcycle a suitable piece of furniture and paint it to match the rest of the room.
A little shop setup keeps the children happy in this sweet space. Mini gingham curtains match other red accessories and help to make the bedroom feel cosy and creative.
It’s worth hunting down attractive versions of substantial toys, such as shops or kitchens, as they’ll become a long-standing decorative feature in your child’s space. You could also have something made, or upcycle a suitable piece of furniture and paint it to match the rest of the room.
Pick your palette
Playing with patterns of different scales creates a sophisticated scheme in this smart bedroom. The palette of blue, grey, white and coral is unexpected but inspired, and would translate well to both teenage and adult-orientated schemes.
Playing with patterns of different scales creates a sophisticated scheme in this smart bedroom. The palette of blue, grey, white and coral is unexpected but inspired, and would translate well to both teenage and adult-orientated schemes.
Help with home-schooling
Get your décor to do double duty as an educational aid by making a feature out of a world map. This wallpaper by Environmental Graphics provides pleasing cool tones for a child’s bedroom and can be drawn on with whiteboard markers.
Get your décor to do double duty as an educational aid by making a feature out of a world map. This wallpaper by Environmental Graphics provides pleasing cool tones for a child’s bedroom and can be drawn on with whiteboard markers.
Double the charm
Soothing pastel tones and dainty, cloud-print paper create the perfect peaceful retreat for twins. A trio of vintage, fabric-covered large cushions makes for a comfy day bed (and would be an easy DIY), while an assortment of artworks decorate the walls.
Painting a key piece of furniture – here, a cot – in an inky shade might seem too strong an idea for a baby’s room. In fact, it grounds the watery hues elsewhere, rather than dominating. A painted wooden chair or chest could have a similar effect.
Which is your favourite room in this collection? Share your thoughts in the Comments below.
Soothing pastel tones and dainty, cloud-print paper create the perfect peaceful retreat for twins. A trio of vintage, fabric-covered large cushions makes for a comfy day bed (and would be an easy DIY), while an assortment of artworks decorate the walls.
Painting a key piece of furniture – here, a cot – in an inky shade might seem too strong an idea for a baby’s room. In fact, it grounds the watery hues elsewhere, rather than dominating. A painted wooden chair or chest could have a similar effect.
Which is your favourite room in this collection? Share your thoughts in the Comments below.
This rainbow-hued space proves it’s possible to give a room child-friendly colour purely via accessories. This is a good move for a room designed to grow with your child, as well as in rented homes where you can’t redecorate.
Here, the pale grey walls and white shelves present the ideal backdrop for bright accents. Woven trunks and crocheted baskets by Anne-Claire Petit provide plenty of toy storage.