How to Design and Plan a Kids’ Bedroom: 10 Key Points

Children grow so fast that they may have outgrown their old room before you even realize it. Creating a long-lasting room for them is encouraged so that a minor update is all you need as they mature. It all starts from the foundation of the room like the wall color to small details like small décor that make the bedroom character. These useful ten key points will help you to achieve a fabulous kids’ bedroom.

1. How to decorate a kids’ bedroom?

To successfully decorate a kids’ room, it takes a mix match of vibrant and colorful décors.

• Accent wall: An accent wall to highlight the characteristics of the room. It can be a solid color that complements the other walls or wallpaper such as whimsical style wallpaper.
• Kids wall art: They should feature the things that your kids love like their favorite movie character, animals, and more.
• Bulletin board: An oversized bulletin board or whiteboard for them to post pictures, drawings, and anything that they want to post.
• Colorful rug: A colorful rug to cozy up the room. But it should be easy to wash rugs, as they may spill drinks on the rugs and you will be thankful to have machine-washable rugs.
• Gallery wall: Find a space to put up pictures of your family’s fondest memories like travel pictures, family pictures, or achievement pictures.
• Touch up the bed: Bedding items with character and pattern that include a blanket, pillow, duvet, and quilt. When done right, layering these bedding items with different patterns and colors will make the room even prettier.
• Set up a play area: Have a creative area where your kids can be creative like drawing, coloring, train set, doll house, and more. It can be a simple table on top of a play mat.
• Create a themed area: If you are an avid traveler, you can incorporate a travel-themed area to inspire and teach your kids about other countries from a young age.
• Cozy Canopy: Infuse a dreamy atmosphere by having a canopy above the bed and fairy lights. Fairy lights are not just for the festive season but it has become a common item for a cozy décor.
• Open cupboard: You can color code your open cupboard to encourage kids to put their toys back after use.
• Open shelves: Get open shelves in addition to cupboards to store and showcase your kids’ toys. It can also be a bookshelf depending on how you use it.

2. How to organize a kids’ bedroom?

• Ensure enough storage space: It is important to think of storage unit capacity. Without adequate planning of storage spaces to store all of their stuff, it’s easy to crumple and create chaos in the room.
• Built-in ceiling height cupboard: it prevents dust build-up like on top of normal drawers and it looks great on uneven ceilings.
• Color-coded storage units: Help them to know where to store each of their belongings, especially if they are younger. It will help keep everything organized and easy to find each time you need it. You don’t want to search the whole room just because you can’t find an item or a toy.
• Utilize unused space: Make the space below the bed and reading nook useful. You can transform those spaces for more storage by adding push and pull storage compartments. Or simply a portable storage unit like laundry laundry-shaped storage unit that is easy to move.
• Move the shelves up: Wall-mounted shelves to store more items without eating the floor space.

3. How to make kids’ bedrooms safe?

As parents you want to have peace of mind when you leave them unattended for some time. And here’s how to childproof your kids’ room:

• Soft protective cover: Install a soft protective cover on sharp corners and jagged objects that can potentially scratch or cut your kids.
• Check the screws and hooks: Double-check the grip and hook of your wall-hanging décors. Make sure that they won’t easily fall if kids touch or bump into it, especially those that are reachable.
• Say no to easy-to-break items: Avoid putting easy-to-break furniture and décor items in your kids’ room that are made of ceramics or glass. Toddlers have high curiosity about their surroundings and they tend to grab and touch everything reachable. It’s the way for them to learn and understand the things around them.
• Keep electrical outlet safe: You should install a kids-safe power outlet that prevents your kids from sticking their fingers or other stuff inside the plug.
• Keep small items away: Move all small items that can accidentally get eaten to another room to prevent them to stuck and avoid a potential choking hazard.
• Discourage climbing behavior: Children are smart. Even though you put stuff above a tall table and out of their reach, they will try to find a way to reach for it. Consider getting furniture that is unclimbable, especially when they are tall furniture like a cupboard. You won’t be happy finding your kids on top of a cupboard.

4. What fixtures to use in kids’ bedrooms?

• Overhead lighting: This will be your all-purpose lighting for your bedroom. It is hung from ceiling height and built to light the entire room.
• Nighttime lighting: This is optional but it may be beneficial for kids who need some sort of lighting when they sleep. If you want something more fun, you can consider a moon lamp and a starry night lamp.
• Sunlight: The best source of light. It is free and the warmth is good for our body and mind.

5. How to paint a kids’ bedroom?

• Playful palette: they are bold and bright colors to put a smile on your kids’ faces and boost a cheerful atmosphere.
• Whimsical palette: Transform your kids’ room into a magical wonderland, especially whimsical wallpaper with a unique fantasy pattern. Mostly the colors feature pink, coral, and mint.
• Dreamy palette: They have soft tones that create color harmony in the room to spark inspiration and creativity such as lavender, sky blue, and dreamy green.
• Neutral palette: A popular choice to make your kids’ bedroom feel bigger. It works by reflecting the light all around the room, especially neutral colors like white and light grey.
• Pastel palette: If you want to combine neutral colors with playfulness, then pastel colors such as pastel blue, pastel pink, or pastel green will suit your needs. They are playful but without the striking factor that playful colors have.
• If you want more than wall paint. You should consider wallpaper and wood panels if you want to add more character, texture, and depth.

6. What flooring to use in a kids’ bedroom?

• Light finishes flooring: Floors with light finishes such as pine and plywood floorings will almost always look good in any room including the kids’ bedroom. You can go with white oak flooring if you want to add extra texture.
• Medium wood flooring: Smoked oak or cherry oak flooring will look good on soft pastel walls like beige, green, pink, or white. It will give a contrasting appearance to the room.
• Hardwood flooring: Flooring such as mahogany, teak, and walnut wood floorings will have a welcoming atmosphere and make the room feel spacious. They are best when combined with lighter wall colors like white and grey.

7. How to prepare a bedroom for kids’ sleepovers?

To host a successful sleepover, you will need to plan the sleeping arrangements in advance. Provides the necessities like a sleeping bag or portable bed, pillows, and blankets. Furthermore, a friend from BabyCenter highlights the basics of bedtime such as preparing for special needs, setting the sleeping time, and introducing a “sleepover” schedule.

8. How to turn a nursery room into a kids’ bedroom?

• Check the existing paint quality: The first thing that you want to look for is the condition of the paint. If they still look good then you may not need to repaint the room.
• Update the room decoration: You may need to remove most if not all of the decoration of your nursery room as it is not suited well to be passed over for the kids’ room.
• Take a look at the furniture: I tend to reuse the old furniture of my nursery room to save money and waste, but not to overdo it.
• Repaint when necessary: If colors are the issue, you can breathe new life into your old furniture by repainting it to match your kids’ bedroom.

9. Should you repaint your old nursery room to the kids’ bedroom?

If the paint quality is still good, then you don’t need to. However, dirty spots and dated paint are likely to appear after several years of usage and it may be the best time to repaint and update the color of the room. It will freshen the room and make it feel like new again.

10. How to decorate boys’ bedrooms and girls’ bedrooms?

The information that is provided in this article applies to both boys’ and girls’ bedrooms. It serves as a guidance to help you create a fabulous kids’ bedroom. But if you want to dive more into the topic, we have a separate article for boys’ bedrooms and girls’ bedrooms.