Kids Rooms Decorating Ideas

When deciding on kids rooms decorating ideas, have some fun with the many colorful, whimsical products on the market for kid's rooms today.

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Picking a theme will give you a central focus to work around, and will inspire your inner-artist to create a masterpiece for your child's room.

There are a number of kid's rooms decorating ideas that are especially appropriate for boys' rooms. For example, you can decide to go with a Safari theme as a start for your kids rooms decorating ideas.

You will find wallpapers with animal prints, borders with animal designs, and fabrics with prints such as a blue leopard skin and red zebra stripes. Paint the walls a neutral color such as tan or ivory, or pick up one of the colors on your wallpaper border.

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Use animal-print fabrics to make pillows and curtains. Be sure to display your child's stuffed animal collection, and hang up some of your child's artwork on the walls.

Another kids rooms decorating idea is sports. You could go with a baseball or even a race car theme. For race cars, use black and white checkered flags and sheets. You might use an area rug that has a finish line or a race track print.

If you want to make your boy's room really special, buy a car bed and watch how easily you can suddenly get your child into bed at night.

Put some framed prints of race cars on the walls, and install shelving for his growing collection of race car models.

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A futuristic kids rooms decorating idea is to design a room around a space theme. Paste glow-in-the-dark stars and planets on the ceiling, and hang an outer space border on the walls. Use sheets with stars and moons and pillow shams with astronauts.

Add a comfy upholstered rocking chair covered in blue fabric with yellow moons and stars, and paint child-safe shelving silver or gold. Be sure to add a solar-system model that glows in the dark!

On the opposite end of the design scheme is a kids rooms decorating idea for a rustic log cabin. Most boys love to camp out and go hiking, fishing, and boating.

You can turn these sports into design elements using wallpaper borders printed with bears, fish, deer, or moose.

Choose fabrics and bedding that match this border, or use flannel plaid blankets on log or pine beds. Choose accessories that have patterns of mountain themes and animals, or use treasures your child has collected himself, such as acorns, pine cones, leaves, and sparkly rocks.

Use a camp trunk for storage, and you will have a room your child can retreat to for a mini-camping trip. Or what about using the rain forest for a kids rooms decorating idea? Not only will you support a good cause, but you can also educate your child at the same time!

Hang a jungle border on the walls, and pictures of trees and the jungle on the wall. If there's an artist in your family, you can paint a tree mural that climbs up the wall and spreads its canopy of giant leaves across the ceiling.

Use a thick carpet that is forest green or a jungle print area rug.

Then cover pillows with animal print fabric and jungle prints, and pick-up a few jungle themed accessories, such as an elephant lamp or a lion table. As you can see, there are endless kids rooms decorating ideas. Talk to your child first, and find out what he is fascinated by.

Then design your room around this element. Buy furniture that is child-safe and rugs that are stain-resistant. Some rugs are even treated with an antibacterial agent to help keep your child healthy. Look for fabrics and patterns that have some educational value, and watch your child grow and learn as he enjoys his own special, unique room.

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