This article, written by a designer with Seven Seas Illustration, includes insight from interior designers across the U.S. that specialize in making kids’ rooms beautiful.
From fun themes to unique elements, they all show that there are endless possibilities for coming up with the perfect space for your kids.
Under The Sea
Deep and mysterious just like your child's imagination, the ocean can be a wonderful theme for a room. For children, an aquarium bedroom brings the magical underwater world to life with playful energy for seaside dreaming. As an added bonus, a seaside theme can offer many possibilities for decorating girls, boys and unisex bedrooms.
This tranquil paradise setting is sure to entice a sea of dreams. Newly available to market is a series of vibrant art prints of sea creatures, including fish, octopuses, crustaceans, and more. These beautiful and whimsical illustrations of creatures from the seven seas for children and adults with a conservation twist. Learning about the many species, such as where they live and what they eat, is a great way to understand their place in the chain of life and how we can help them thrive.
Photo credit: Seven Seas Illustrations
Bright and Playful Boy’s Room
Soft grey walls and shades are perfect backdrop for playful furnishings and bright colors for a young boy’s bedroom. Creative design solution for a very small corner for desk and shelves: cantilevered wall mounted desk and overlapping cloud shaped shelves that wrap around the corner in Crayon colors extend shelf space. Minimal but classic furnishings make the space work.
Photo credit: Mary Anne Smiley Interiors LLC
Black and White
Perfect space for kids who share a room! Fun linear black and white elements offset colorful punches in art, custom turquoise nightstand and benches, and resin cantilevered desk and play table supported by only one base. Deceptively simple curvilinear steel base for window seat supports cozy lamb upholstery and pillows.
Photo credit: Mary Anne Smiley Interiors LLC
Pop Art
Pop art can be a great source of inspiration to let your child of any age express themselves. It’s both fun but powerful way to define their space as their own. From wall decals where the kids can be an active artist in their room (with low risk:) or a piece of furniture or rug. It’s a strong statement that can really reflect your child’s personality.
Submission: JMorris Design LLC
Photo Credit: Eric Laignel
Preppy Look
Two goals- boy’s bedroom design to have a preppy, classic look that would: 1. Stand the test of time. 2. Work for two boys of different ages. I always suggest not to go too overboard with a particular theme, it can either get a bit cheesy or you’ll have to start from scratch when your kiddo outgrows that look. Instead I go with a more “loose” theme. In this boy bedroom we did a loose “preppy” theme with a classic red, white, and blue color scheme. Mom can easily add in some personal touches based on their changing interests, but this is a scheme that will work well for years.
\Kristin Thomas of PostBoxDesigns
Photo credit: Hello Aly May
Sweet as Sugar
While I wanted her bedroom design to be sweet and youthful (she is seven and my baby….I want to keep her young forever!), I did want to add a couple more “grown up” elements to it. Her pink sofa and scalloped light fixture were elements I would easily use for a teenage girl’s bedroom. But I also wanted to go a little more sophisticated with her area rug. I loved this subtly patterned pink and gold rug. Plus it gives her a soft and comfy place to play on her floor.
Kristin Thomas of PostBoxDesigns
Photo credit: Hello Aly May
Sky’s The Limit Big Boy Room:
This designer’s son developed quite an early interest in cars, it's beyond toy cars. He loves flipping through car mags with dad and can name almost any model that drives by them on the road or he's sees parked on the street. In moving his nursery to a “big boy’s room, it was important to bring in "some" of his love of four wheel vehicles into his personal space.
Photo credit: YouthfulNest
Galaxy Girl Nursery
After landing on the wallpaper most of the other furnishing and décor items fell into place. But doing the math became an essential part of selecting every piece for this tiny space. The actual floor space was only 5'x10' or 50 square feet total, the size of a walk-in closet or kitchen pantry.
The stars were aligned and the designer found so many amazing pieces that worked for the client’s small space.
Photo credit: YouthfulNest
A Room for 3
Three brothers sharing a room and loving their new space....Even though they had 3 bedrooms these brothers all wanted to bunk together.... One full bed and two twin XL‘s and a little storage and study ....they were thrilled
Photo Credit: Mega Kids Inc. Naples, FL
A Magic Castle
All girls dream about having the castle.... This little girl had big dreams at a very young age... she knew exactly what she wanted and she got it. We were more inspired by the direction she gave us at the age of 5....This project taught me that this young lady was a leader not a follower. Thank you to Little Sophia for inspiring me and teaching me that these are what little girls dreams are made of.
Photo Credit: Mega Kids Inc. Naples, FL
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About
Founder and Illustrator, Alisha Ober, has had a love of octopuses for years, and incorporated them a lot into her art in the last decade. This in turn fueled her love for aquariums and her fascination with the creatures of the sea has expanded to include practically everything that swims or floats.
Her goal is to create beautiful and whimsical illustrations of creatures from the seven seas for children and adults with a conservation twist. Learning about the many species, such as where they live and what they eat, is a great way to understand their place in the chain of life and how we can help them thrive.
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