Cool Ideas For Decorating Your Son’s Room
April 2, 2010 by Flip Wilson
Filed under Bedroom
Most parents tend to start thinking about how to decorate a child’s room way before he even makes his way into the world. Stuffed animals and cartoon characters may be adorable, but if you want a unique playroom or bedroom for your child, you should get creative and find a design unique to your son’s interests. If you don’t know where to start with your son’s room makeover, begin by selecting a theme.
Choosing a theme which will fit your little one is the inspiration you’ll need to pick the focal point in the room. Try choosing something which will last quite a few years before it’s time to switch it up a bit.
Kids love animals or anything found in nature, whether they may be insects or reptiles. Using a nature theme for the bedroom could encourage your child to get outside in order to experience and explore the real outdoors.
If you have a toddler and you know their favorite animal or insect then base the room on this. It will give them the space to play and also create a great design. All you need is a lot of stuffed animals and little decor ideas to add to create a great animal feel.
You can even opt for a safari look by looking for colorful and interesting animal wallpaper, fabrics, and borders, which are readily available at most home improvement stores. Cover the walls with a shade of tan, ivory or blue and produce valances and pillows that match well with leopard-print fabrics. Stuffed toys of tigers and lions can be stowed in a corner, while binoculars, straw hats, and butterfly nets can hang from the walls. A colorful frame or mat board would also look great, and it could be used to display your child’s art work
A lot of children enjoy going to the mountains for camping. You can carry this look over into your son’s room with wallpaper borders, bedding, fabrics and accessories of bears, fish, birdhouses and moose. For a more rustic feel, you can also add comfortable flannel fabrics, plaid patterns, and pine or log beds. For accessories, look for forest themes of mountain scenes, animals, and natural materials like leaves, pine cones, and sticks. Get inspiration from camps and use strong wooden trunks as toy storage.
If your son loves cars, decorate his room with a finish line and checkered black and white flags. Rugs with car track designs are also great, as is a car bed and walls with car wall decals. In frames, put up race car photos and in shelves, put up a display of various model cars.
If it is astronomy that your little one is most interested in, choose a space theme that could consist of an Apollo bed, a star-themed rocking chair and borders of outer space. Fill the ceiling with glow-in-the-dark stars or hang constellations for him to marvel at.
Every little man loves to play with little army men so why not make their room a theme including these little guys? Adding camouflage decor like bedding and pictures will give this design a great palette. Try to avoid placing pictures of weapons and other horrible items out of the room. You want to encourage your child the great qualities of soldiers and not the negative items. No matter the theme you choose for your little boy’s room, they’ll enjoy it to the fullest. The last item you may want to add to the room to make it more comfortable is a great area rug which is soft to the touch. You also want to avoid adding anything breakable low to the floor. As you know little boys enjoy being rough and tumbling so you want to avoid as much breakable things as possible in their rooms.
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