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Room For Boys

A decorating theme is a great way to begin decorating a room for a child. If you're like most parents, you've probably spent lots of time thinking about decorating your new child's room even before he joined your family. While bunnies are cute and teddy bears are darling, you might want something different for the bedroom or playroom.

There are lots of great themes for boys' rooms. A special theme will provide both the focus and the inspiration for a special one-of-a-kind room and can be adapted as your child grows. Time to get started!

Bug's Life
From bees and ants to frogs and reptiles, creatures of nature often capture a child's attention. Browse theme ideas at posh toys including a Bug Off Table and Chair Set, Bug bed linens, and or frog lamp. Maybe using this theme in the bedroom will encourage your son to leave the real thing outside!

Favorite Animals
What boy wouldn't love a room focusing on his favorite pet? Whether it's a dog or cat, bird or snake, using this theme will make your son (and his pet) feel particularly at home. Be sure to put up lots of pictures with your son and his best friend around the room and make sure you have stuffed animals scattered everywhere.

Playhouse / Playtown
This theme will provide a wonderful scheme for decorating your son's room and provide lots of wonderful playtime possibilities as well. A whimsical or the cute playtown chest can be your starting point. Or, do a border in kids designs or paint a mural of a street scene on one or more walls. Name the storefronts for family members ("Katie's Groceries", "Ted's Puppet Theatre", "Todd's Bike Shop", "Anne's Pet Heaven", "Sara's Video Den", or Dennis' Book Nook").

Safari
For a safari look, find wonderful, colorful animal wallpaper borders and fabrics at any wallpaper store. Paint the walls blue, tan, ivory, or any of the colors in your wallpaper border. Make pillows and valances from coordinating leopard-print fabrics, and find some stuffed lions and tigers for the corner. Mount a butterfly net, binoculars, or straw hat on the walls. Use colorful matboard and frame some of your child's artwork to display. Maybe he'll draw some lions!

Rustic Cabin
Most every child loves spending time at camp or in the mountains. And what parent doesn't have happy childhood memories of hiking, boating, fishing, or just enjoying the outdoors. Birdhouses, bears, moose, and fish might show up in wallpaper borders, in fabrics, bedding, and accessories. For a rustic room you might also choose comfy plaid patterns, flannel fabrics, and log or pine beds. Accessories might use forest themes of animals, mountain scenes, or natural materials such as pine cones, leaves, and sticks. Take another cue from camp and use a sturdy trunk to store toys. With a room this nice, who needs a vacation?

Rain Forest
Choose a colorful jungle border, or try a jungle area rug. Soft fabric snakes and colorful stuffed birds or butterfly cutouts can add to the decor. Make pillows of animal or jungle prints and use themed accessories. Grrr!

Race Cars
With car racing, you think black and white checkered flags, and a finish line. Find an area rug with a car track design. A car bed might be fun, or decorate the walls with a car wall appliques. Add some framed calendar photos or posters of race cars, and put up narrow shelving to display car collections. Zoom!

Outer Space
Take a trip to the stars using a space theme. An Apollo bed set, outerspace border, or star-studded rocking chair might be just the items that inspires your child to reach for the stars. Paint reflective planets or stars on the ceiling in arrangements of the constellations.

If Dad is in the service, you might let your boy feel patriotic with a room painted in camouflage and outfitted with tanks and desert colors. But leave the guns out!

Sports
From soccer to baseball to football, sports is a theme that spans the generations. To use a baseball theme for example, use a headboard made from bats, hang curtains from bats used as curtain rods, make a baseball lamp, or hang shelving to display gloves, pennants, and trophies. Paint the room in the colors of your son's favorite team. Sports themed rugs, furniture, and beds are another possibility. Create similar looks for other sports, and you'll have a room that is a big "hit" with sports fans. Play ball!

Wild Colors
Go wild by starting with a lively area rug designed in fun colors for a child. Take your cue from the rug for colors and designs for the rest of the room. Use color everywhere! Paint every surface of a bookcase a different color, and do the same with headboard slats, drawer fronts, and chair legs. This is a great way to help your little one learn his colors! Find a fabric to compliment the rug and use it to tie the room together with window valances or floor pillows.

Movie or Cartoon Characters
There's something for everyone in this theme! Whether your son has been captivated by Mickey Mouse, Alladin, Lion King, Toy Story, or Scooby Doo -- you'll probably be able to find bedding, lamps, and other decorative items that use these themes. Towels for the bathroom and toys will be easy to add.

Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
There are lots of colorful choices in bedding, fabrics, and wallpaper that feature transportation themes. Most use bright primary colors and offer eye-catching designs. Make a train track border around the room, hang airplanes from the ceiling, or go wild with a car-shaped bed.

Dinosaurs
From cute and stylized to realistic and ferocious -- dinosaurs themes are still popular. If you suspect this is a passing phase for your little one, then opt for solid color bedding and walls, using theme elements in borders, sheets, valances, and posters.

Room from small boys to a teenage guy and a budding youth can have its own individuality that reflects the personality and likes of its occupant. Themes like space, automobiles, favorite action figures and insect-like superheroes such as Spiderman are some of the most popular ones for adventurous little boys. The décor can be quite inexpensive and affordable too apart with the eternal joy that living in the room gives to your small angel/bad guy. Here are some of these most easy to install and budget-friendly decorating tips and ideas for boys' bedrooms:

Boys who love to collect bugs or a big fan of Spiderman or Batman, would love curtains, linens, bed sheets and valences featuring spiders or bats, as the case may be.Colors from your boy's favorite superhero's outfit can be used as the guiding colors for their bedroom décor.An inexpensive net fabric can be used to make the web for the Spiderman wall hanging that your boys will simply love and can be hung above their beds, dressers, night stand or study table.

Boys who love diving and swimming or often dream about searching for treasure-laden ships or weird look aquatic animals underwater, may have rooms with medium to lighter shades of blue gracing its walls and accents such as lamps shaped as seahorses, seashells and framed pictures of scuba divers. Bigger boys can also have a glass bowl with one or two goldfish or an aquarium to add the realistic touch to the theme bedroom décor.

Aspiring astronauts may love to live and sleep in rooms transformed into outer space by painting the walls in medium to dark blue shades. Accents can include star-shaped ceiling lights, sparkling silvery-moons and posters and bed shaped like spaceships.Most boys love automobiles and crave for cars. Besides the more expensive options of bed shaped like big cars, you can create a moving scene painting wall mural that seems like fields or scenery rushing off as one is driving during sunsets. Traffic signposts are often easiest to paint along with long winding roads. Small cheap plastic toy cars can be attached to the walls, dressers and armoires using wall putty to make the room look like a busy city street.

Room For Girls

Decorate a girl's room with these paint ideas, themes, and creative projects. Get inspired!
You'll find wonderful ideas to create a special room for a girl of any age! Use the themes here to decorate a room "fit for a princess" of any age

Angels, Fairies, and Elves
This universal theme will be adored by girls of any age. Angel themes could use faux painted skies and clouds, fluffy canopy beds, and soft icy pinks, blues, and lavendars. Fairy shapes are appealing with transparent wings, sparkling wands, and silvery magic dust. Try to incorporate some sparkles with glittering accents, silver paint, and magical designs.

Princesses and Castles
Your Princess can have a room befitting her high status if you use sheer fabrics and fanciful details. Embellish the walls with faux painted castle walls, murals, and blue skies for a truly memorable girl's room. Contrast the weighty look of faux stone walls with trails of stenciled ivy or flowers and swaths of pretty netting used as a bed canopy.

Tea Party
Pretty hats can adorn a room with a tea party theme. She can arrange her toy pals in chairs around a tea table and play until supper time. Be sure to include a pretty tea set and other tea themed accessories throughout the room. Cheerio!

Young girls who avidly participate in any sport -- whether it's riding, skating, softball, swimming, or soccer -- can readily identify with this decorating theme. Wallies or a wallpaper border is a perfect place to start for a color scheme and in a search for coordinating curtains and bedding. Look for innovative touches to support the theme and be sure to include display shelves to house awards, game photos, and medals.

Storybook Characters
Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, the Little Mermaid, or Barbie might be the starting point for a wonderful theme room. Search the net for specialty character sheets and bedding, then take your color cues from there. Frame book illustrations as wall art or use cutouts of book pages for decoupage on furniture.

Flower Power
Bright and bold oranges, sun yellows, lime greens, and watermelon pinks are the basis of this retro-60's look. Find colorful borders and fabrics featuring stylized simple flower shapes in hot colors, and match these with some plain fabrics for ruffles, valances, and window seat pillows. These flower shapes would be easy to enlarge on a copy machine and trace onto the walls in random patterns, then paint with wild colors matched to the fabrics.

Sunshine
Paint a mural of hills, with the sunrise peeking over the top. Use sunny yellow checked bedding and quilts, green rugs for grass, and paint the ceiling a soft sky blue. Waking up will be easy and fun using this summery look which is sure to please many a young child.

Cottage Style
This is a great theme if your child will be using hand-me-down furniture for her room. Think lots of white and paint all the furniture for creating a cottage style room. Then use either light colors (pink, sky blue, pale green) or set the white off against bright clear colors like grass green or marine blue. You can also use fabric patterns such as tea-stained cotton florals, or use brighter florals, ginghams, or stripes. Find more tips on cottage style.

Sugar and Spice
Every little girl I know loves pretty colors! For a room she'll cherish, select fabrics with flowers, trellises, cute animals, or butterflies. You might stencil flowers, vines, and butterflies on walls as a colorful accent, using paint colors matched to your fabric or wallpaper choices. Don't forget soft, airy curtains for the windows.

Ocean
If you live near the beach, or just wish you did, create an ocean theme using watery blues for the wall, sand colors on the floor, and clouds in the sky (ceiling). Take color cues from a beachy border wallpaper, art print, or piece of furniture like this colorful stool. You 'll almost be able to hear the waves!

Stars
Starlight is a great theme, and you'll find many fabrics, wallpapers, and bedding with star patterns. This theme appeals to both boys and girls, and is available in many colors both bright and pastel. Wonderful theme pieces can be the "star" in a room. You might get star-shaped rubber stamps (or sponges) and dip into wall paint to create your own star border, decorate furniture, or make random stars all over the walls or ceiling. A star quilt or rug will complete the theme.

Moonlight
Create a wonderful, soft look with by the light of the moon. The ceiling might be midnight blue, with painted moon and stars, or use some of the stick-on glow-in-the-dark stars. Embellish a colorful painted bookshelf with crisp white stars, or liven up a plain white chest with a rainbow of star shapes. Find a moon and star quilt or fabric to use for window treatments. Then add a moon cutout headboard.

Decorating rooms for little girls is quite a pleasurable activity. It is a nest for daydreaming, spinning tales of wonder, study, play with dolls, sleep and even do a little makeup and spend time gazing at the mirror for all those imagined-up pimples! Here are some super ideas to transform the room of your place a paradise for fairies:

Girls, whether small, teenaged or those turning into young women, tend to be more creative than boys and love to have a say in the decoration of your room. So, ask your girl to make a list of her favorite toys or characters that she would like to incorporate as a theme of her room.Use her favorite colors to paint the walls of the room, as accents, accessories or linens and curtains.

Girls love to recycle the products and to use them into new creative innovative ways. Mirror attached to the dresser formerly can be put directly on the wall. The knobs, pulls of the dressers and armoires can be changed while posters can be changed for an instant new look.Bold backgrounds with bulletin boards, where the girls can paste magazine cutouts, hand-made greeting cards or their own paintings and drawings, are often loved by them and encourage creativity in them.

New linens, bedsheets and duvet covers matching the theme of the room featuring fairies, Christmas colors, wedding bells or even garden elves are a warm change too. Let the girls paint the matching valances for their windows. The choice and taste of a growing child and girls change quickly. So it is advisable to use the hand painted murals, cheaper options for carpets and rug areas, wall stick ups, framed arts, posters and accent rugs that can be easily changed and are budget-friendly.

Accent pillows and throws, hanging wall tapestry and cheap window treatments and area rugs can be used for introducing variety in color and texture. Don't forget to provide plenty of storage area in the dressing table and a full-length mirror to organize their cosmetics, jewellery pieces, hairpins, combs and other accessories.

Decorating Room For Children

Decorating kids bedrooms is child’s play

Your child’s bedroom is the one space they can call their own, so it’s important that its decor reflects their individual tastes and personality. The problem, of course, is that these can change quite frequently during childhood. This doesn’t mean you have to give your kids room a complete makeover every year or two, however. By keeping major furnishings plain and painting walls a solid, neutral color, you can use kids bedding and other accent pieces to easily and inexpensively change themes.

Decorating Kids Rooms

When it comes time to convert the nursery or move your child from the nursery into a bedroom, give him or her some say in the design of the new room. Toddlers get very excited about moving from cribs to kids beds, but the transition can also be difficult. Including your child in the selection process can help make it easier.

For the room’s general theme, take cues from your child’s daily interests – TV shows they like, toys and activities they enjoy, and colors and patterns they’re attracted to. Often, aspects of these interests can be woven together to create a dream bedroom for your son or daughter. Of course, if you’re stuck, there a couple of simple, tried-and-true kids room designs.

What would a girls room be without pink? But a whole room of pink can be a little overwhelming, and your little girl may eventually grow out of it. For a simple, feminine bedroom that will grow with your daughter, paint the walls a neutral color and save the pink for accents such as curtains and pillows.

Of course, the quintessential girls bedroom is the princess room. A kids canopy bed, lace curtains, plush fabrics and brightly colored accents combine to create a feeling of wealth and luxury. And don’t forget the kids table and chairs so the princess can entertain guests or enjoy a solitary snack in her palace chamber.

Try a sports or locomotive theme for a traditional boys bedroom. Again, choose a neutral color for the walls and use themed kids bedding sets to change the decor as your child grows. Kids rugs, kids lamps and kids clocks are other easy ways to add style that can be easily changed later.

A modern kids room is perfect for either a boy or a girl. Neutral, subdued hues create the perfect backdrop for bright accents, such as boldly colored kids sheets. Furniture should have sleek, stark lines, which contrast beautifully with round light fixtures and area rugs.

And what child wouldn’t love a Disney bedroom? Black, white and red are the classic Disney colors and can easily be incorporated in paint and furniture choices. Kids wall art, such as kids posters or kids murals of Disney characters, adds color and interest to the walls without the commitment and hassle of wallpaper.

Your child’s room is their playground, so when it comes to choosing decor, let their imagination – and yours – run wild

All of the basic information you'll need about planning and decorating baby nurseries and childrens rooms, including checklists and tips, and sources for product comparisons of baby products. Window treatments in a child's room deserve special consideration. Beyond the choices of color, style, and pattern are the basic safety and function issues. Who would imagine that such a small new member of a family could cost so much? Find ways to furnish your new baby's room without spending the family savings.

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Lots of info including lists of recommended items to furnish the nursery for baby's first year. Other checklists available on the site for various baby ages, from newborn to one year. View 4 color boards from Design Public with ideas for decorating a nursery. Click on the boards for more details on the products and items used in the plans. Included are great ways on how to adapt space for your new family member.

Room for kids not only serves as a place to sleep but also to play, study, read comics, spend quality time with parents, siblings and friends, listen to music, giving vent to their creative and artistic tendencies and carrying out their fantasies. Thus, the approach to decorate a kid's room is quite different from an adult's room. Here are some tips for you:
Involve the child and take their advice while figuring out the color and style of the décor of their room and match it to their personality, hobbies and fantasies.

You may even take their advice while choosing the fabrics, accessories and collectibles for their room but make sure they are child-safe, do not have sharp edges, easy to clean and are unbreakable. Multi-functional and versatile furniture pieces that can serve for entertaining, reading, sleeping and hiding toys and dirty clothes are an asset in a kids' room.

Kids need a lot of storage space so opt for more and more shelves and racks, plastic and transparent containers, baskets and closets to make space for keeping their clothes, drop their socks, books, shoes, playthings and other accessories. Use a single versatile cheap fabric for pillows, lampshades, bed ruffles and quilts for a harmonious look.Long curtains and draperies may trip a child so opt for shorter curtains, shades and windows that are simplistic.

You may add artistic valances made by children to encourage them to keep their room look beautiful and have a feeling of accomplishment. Nightlight, task light or a study lamp for doing homework and soothing light for relaxing is a must. Play with colors to create patterns, add stars to the ceiling and whimsical borders along the edges.Use semi-gloss and high gloss paints that are easily washable.Bright colors should be use in a limit or it may look disturbing.The child can choose theme of the room as angels, ocean, aliens, Harry Potter and other myriads of ideas depending on their taste and inclination.

Start looking in your child's favorite books, magazines, decorating books, and even get ideas online. You'll get great inspiration for a theme. getting his or her ideas and choose favorite colors, favorite sports or artistic interests, or story or movie characters, like Harry Potter or Spiderman.Shop for fabric, wallpaper or border paper that will reinforce your chosen theme. Select a main print that will set the tone for the whole room.

Choose a background color to use on the painted walls, floors, and ceiling. Use your main fabric print to guide you.Select coordinating fabrics, accessories, and prints that mix well with the main fabric. Use the colors in the print for inspiration. Choose a focal point for the room. While many choose the bed as the main point of interest, you could focus on a display shelf, a painted wall mural, or decorated play area. The focal point should really reinforce your chosen theme.

Use some imagination when selecting and planning on decorative elements. If your child loves tennis, string a net behind the bed for a headboard. You could arrange tennis rackets (collected from tag sales or flea markets) around the netting. Place tennis balls onto the tips of clothes hooks. You might use a section of picket fencing for a headboard in a cottage style room.Choose bedding that will enhance both the color scheme and theme you've selected. Pretty flowers work for almost any girl's room scheme and blue chambray fits with most boy rooms.

Be sure to save a place to display your child's artwork, collections, and projects. You can set them on well-placed shelves or make an artistic display on the wall.Don't forget to save plenty of room to store clothes, books, toys, games projects, and hobby supplies. A child of any age needs a desk for a computer and school work. If the storage items will be out in view, be sure they're decorated to fit the theme, too.

Create a window treatment that enhances the theme and adds to the decor. Decorative hardware on doors, drawers, and cabinets can continue the theme.A good rule to follow for a themed, coordinated room is to repeat each color, fabric, and print, if possible, in at least three places around the room. If you do, everything will really tie together.

Tips:

1. Safety should be of primary consideration when selecting items for a child's room. Keep electrical cords out of the way, use non-skid pads under decorative area rugs, and don't stack storage units too high.
2. Using coordinating colors in all elements of the room will bring even unlike things together to support the theme.
3. Use a common background color when you use several coordinating prints in one room. Choose patterns and prints in different scale, such as a large sailboat print with smaller coordinating plaids and stripes.
4. You can create inexpensive framed art by using your child's own artwork or cutting pictures out of books or magazines.

Room Décor for children is a booming industry and customized furniture and furnishings are available in all conceivable sizes of colors, patterns and styles are available in the market. Parents often have fun shopping for their kids and indulge in their childhood fantasies while making them a reality for their little ones. While hand-me-downs is a downright insult for those pouting cuties, here are some tips on not to go overboard and yet make the room for children special for them:

A wide range of bed linens and pillows featuring all the popular cartoon characters, action figures, alphabets and interesting animals, flowers and toys are available in the market in bold primary colors that can make any child beam up in a second.Wallpapers with above patterns and patterns can also be used to cover the walls of the room for children but most children would love blank walls with easy-to-wash finish that allows them to scrawl on them with their crayons and pencils and draw mom and dead with them in between.

Kid-size club chairs and sofas, ottomans shapes like dices and beds like little castles for your princess are only a few of furniture pieces that people use to decorate their children's room.Theme-based furniture is also available such as those with nautical themes for little sailors and pirates and jungle themes for those who love Tarzan and his animal friends.Adventurous and active kids love to occupy the topmost bunk of their loft beds while twins or siblings of almost same age will want identical set of beds, tables and chairs.

Baby monitor for smaller kids will wake you up in case your baby needs you while some children might need soft nightlights as an additional protection against the demons under their bed.Avoid any pointed or sharp ends and always opt for furniture and accessories that have smooth edges and are unbreakable and cover the floor with soft carpet to keep the child from any accident.