Is your son or daughter’s room looking tired? Do you open the door, only to close it as quickly as possible before the nagging sense of obligation to fix it up again can sweep over you?
In this blog, we explore tons of kids' bedroom ideas, from simple decorating choices, to bespoke furniture ideas, categorised by which of our 5 rules for childrens’ bedrooms they relate to.
5 Design Guidelines & Over 30 Helpful Kids’ Bedroom Ideas
1. Decorate With Fun in Mind - Think Bright & Bold
Creating a room that your child loves is critical to their well-being, and because there aren’t many children who’d opt for floor-to-ceiling neutral tones, exploring bold, bright, fun or imaginative decorative choices, or furniture pieces, is key.
The wallpaper trend is still going strong in 2024, and is at the top of any list of kids' bedroom ideas, due to the large number of options to consider, and its powerful ability to transform a room’s aesthetic.
- All over wallpaper - The same wallcovering design on the walls and ceiling. While this works with any wallpaper, it can be especially effective with traditional-style small, tight floral designs, damask and paisley-style prints, which help to create a cosy cocoon-like feel.
- Bold wallpaper designs - Think big abstract shapes, oversized florals, animal designs, bookcase designs, and designs that reflect your child’s favourite TV show, movie, book etc.
- Geometric wallpapers
- Whimsical designs - Consider prints that feature popular woodland, mountain and jungle scenes, landscape designs, or for a more traditional style, William Morris-style prints.
As an alternative to wallpaper, hanging a tapestry can be an excellent option, and a great way to inject some texture into the room. Similarly, murals, both painted and wallpaper versions, are another great way to add some personality into the room, especially rooms that are otherwise neutrally decorated.
Other popular decoration-related kids’ bedroom ideas are:
- Painted ceilings - Consider flat colours in muted tones or pastels, or more inventive designs such as the night sky, blue sky and clouds, or a striped circus tent design.
- Bold wall art and either wood wall-mounted lettering to spell out your child’s name, or bespoke wooden signage, available in a wide range of colours.
- Opt for a fun novelty bed, or for older children, a statement headboard.
2. Make the Room Uniquely Theirs
Creating a room that reflects your son or daughter’s personality helps to boost their sense of identity, and seeing this identity expressed in their space in turn boosts self esteem and helps them feel understood. Explore the following kids’ bedroom ideas to create a space that is uniquely theirs:
- Adorn the walls with their interests, be that skateboards, surfboards, sporting equipment, music gear, books, gaming controllers, collectable figures or soft toys.
- For fashion-conscious children, or kids who love dressing up, consider adding attractive open clothing racks. This also adds texture to the room.
- If your child is involved in music, dance, or is a budding youtube creator, you could create a raised platform, as a kind of stage, to encourage their hobbies, and dedicate their room to these passions.
3. Comfort Comfort Comfort
Comfort is critical to creating the perfect children’s bedroom, and this goes beyond finding the right bed. As manufacturers of bespoke bean bag furniture, we know a thing or two about creating comfortable spaces, and have a few unique kids’ bedroom ideas to help you create a room that is as comfy as it is cool.
- Bean bag chairs offer unparalleled comfort, and come in a wide range of silhouettes, sizes, fabrics and colours. From traditional retro-style bean bags, to armchair models, high-back wedge models, and large-sized models for spacious rooms, there’s a bean bag chair for your son or daughter’s room.
- If space allows, you could also explore bean bag sofas like couch models, low profile lounger models, and recliners to explore. These models also make excellent, and exceedingly comfortable, air bed alternatives for sleepovers.
- If your child is a keen gamer, bean bag gaming chairs are a great way to provide comfort and support, while lending a softer more textured aesthetic to the room over typical hard black plastic and leather gaming chairs.
- Cute colourful wooden or plastic stools are a common feature of many children’s rooms, and feature on many lists of kids’ bedroom ideas, but by opting for a bean bag stool, or larger bean bag cube models, you can harness all the same benefits with added comfort. They’re also child safe due to their light weight, and high-quality soft materials.
- Bold, patterned, colourful, cushioned rugs and throws are an excellent way to add flair, texture and comfort to your child’s room.
- Floor cushions or alternatives like our deck chair models, can turn the smallest area of floor space into a cosy corner, or a space for reading and lounging.
4. Explore Zoning - Turning a Room Into a Whole World
Zoning is hugely effective in creating different spaces dedicated to different activities within your child’s room, to help them make the most of their space, and focus on their various activities.
From sleeping, to relaxing, reading, doing homework, and engaging in their passions and interests, zoning concepts are perhaps the most powerful and transformative in our collection of kids’ bedroom ideas, and the ultimate way to create a unique space for your child.
- Consider building a window seat
- Transform wardrobes, closets or alcoves into dedicated spaces to draw, read, play games, or do homework.
- Explore creating a book nook to encourage reading and improve literacy skills.
- For larger renovation projects, explore building wooden fort-like spaces out from the walls to create a hideaway nook. These make great places to read, play with toys, or sit with an ipad, and double as excellent storage space. There are also children’s forts available to buy on the market, like this one, but many products in this category fall more into the temporary teepee, tent and den category of product. Similarly, creating usable spaces off the ground, accessible via ladders and slides, are a popular option.
There are tons of bed-related kids’ bedroom ideas that can create an exciting zone, or even multiple zones, within your child's room. Don’t sleep on these:
- Add a seating nook to the end of the bed - this is especially useful in smaller rooms.
- Consider installing curtains around the bed to create a cosy cocoon and provide a sense of privacy.
- Explore high sleeper beds to create spaces beneath them for relaxing, playing, homework or gaming. Similarly, consider bunk houses as an option.
- Build a box around the bed to create the feeling, and perhaps aesthetic, of their own little house, within their bedroom.
- Build a box, out from the ceiling above their bed, to create the clear aesthetic of a dedicated sleeping zone. The ceiling box can be papered or painted in a different print or colour to the rest of the room to accentuate this space within a space.
- If you’re looking for kids’ bedroom ideas for rooms shared by multiple children, consider bed stacking and bunk-style designs to fit as many as 4 beds in a single room, and maximise floor space.
- If both of your children share a room, consider symmetry to create two separate sleeping zones on each side of the room that mirror each other.
5. Storage is Key
Almost frightened by the sheer amount of “stuff” your children accumulate? Stuff that’s never as tidy as you’d like it to be. It’s no surprise that storage solutions feature heavily on every list of kids’ bedroom ideas you can find.
Here are our ultimate storage ideas:
- Don’t overlook the classic ottoman
- Wicker baskets - Still super popular and now available in a range of attractive shapes including cute animals
- Platform bed, and under-bunk storage
- Under window seat storage
- Bookshelves and cube shelving units
- Full-wall storage is super popular in 2024 - for good reason
- Got an original fireplace? Turn it into a stunning toy cupboard
Sufficiently inspired? Start implementing your favourite points from our collection of kids’ bedroom ideas, and remember the 5 rules to guide you.
