Decorating Ideas For Kids Rooms

Your child’s room should be a safe place where she can go to enjoy her playtime, take her naps and get securely tucked in at night. For this reason, it’s important that you help your child inject a little bit of her personality into the room by decorating it in a manner that reflects who she is. At the same time, you want to make sure that the room is decorated in a way that visually appeals to you, is efficient for getting the day’s activities done and makes the maximum use of space with the least amount of clutter.

Here are a few decorating ideas that can get you started on the way to creating a safe, fun, aesthetically pleasing room for your kids:

Have a theme. Doing your decorating around a theme helps to streamline the look of the room so that even when it’s a little bit cluttered, it looks organized. The theme should be something that appeals to your child so that she can feel comfortable in the room. For example, a sports theme or a theme from a favorite storybook tale.

Keep in mind that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to decorate around a theme. It’s not necessary to go out and buy matching bed sheets, wallpaper and lamp shades in the theme that you’ve set up. Instead, use the theme loosely to create a sense of fun in the room. Inexpensive items like wall socket covers and framed posters can supplement your own decorating in the room.

Create decorations with your kids. Children feel special when the things that they create are showcased in their homes. So letting your kids help make the items that will be used to decorate their rooms serves a multi-fold purpose. It allows for some cheap decorating, which will give your child’s room a sense of her personality while encouraging her to feel good about her creative self. Sit down together and do drawings for the room (perhaps along a theme as described above) and then go shopping together for inexpensive frames to hang this art work. Papier mache sculptures, themed dioramas and other projects can be used to further decorating your kids’ rooms.

An art wall. In addition to the room décor, or as an alternative to it, you can set aside a portion of your child’s room for ever-changing art work. A particular wall could be designated for hanging projects, a child’s easel could be set up in a corner or a chalkboard could be put up on the back of the bedroom door. These are all conducive to encouraging your child’s creativity and productivity while adding a little bit of color and personality to the room.

Keep it kid-sized. If you want your kids to keep clean rooms, then you want to make it easy for them to put stuff away. While it may seem more efficient to buy the tall bookcase to hold the books and toys of your kids, it’s actually better to use kid-sized furniture in these rooms. This also helps you in limiting what you keep in your kids’ rooms, thereby reducing clutter naturally. Short bookcases, cubby holes and other organizing furniture are great for giving the room a clean look.

Remember it’s going to change. The furniture, theme and general décor of your child’s room is going to change over time, probably even more quickly than you’d like. Kids grow up and have different needs and interests and their rooms will (and should) reflect that growth. So, don’t spend too much money on particular items. Don’t get obsessed with getting the “right” materials. And don’t be afraid to let the room change with your child’s personality. This should be a safe, happy place for her so let her shine there.