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Are you planning to upgrade your child’s bedroom? Has your son or daughter decided that their bedroom no longer suits their tastes? Perhaps they feel their current room décor is not too babyish or features a character they are no longer interested in. Or, perhaps you are moving to a new house and have a bedroom that needs to be transformed into a child-friendly space. Whatever your reason for needing a bedroom update, there is no doubt that trying to design the perfect room for kids can be challenging.
One of the biggest concerns that many parents have when creating a kid’s bedroom is ensuring that their kids will live it in the long term. Children can be fickle. One week they may have a favorite character that they love or a color that they cannot get enough of, but the following week, they may no longer be interested in it at all. When trying to decorate your child’s room, this fickle behavior can be an issue. After all, if you are investing your time and money in decorating your child’s room, you at least want them to like it for a while.
No one wants to spend lots of money and hours of their time decorating their child’s room only for them to like it for a few months and then grow bored with the design. The perfect solution to this situation is to design a kid’s bedroom that stands the test of time. This will allow you to design a bedroom that they will love for many years to come. As an added bonus, updating the bedroom should become a straightforward task and one that costs you far less money.
Take a look at these ideas to help you design a kid’s bedroom that stands the test of time:
Decorate the Walls Carefully
While it can be tempting to adorn your child’s bedroom walls with wallpaper featuring their favorite character, this is often a big mistake to make. Unless you want to keep decorating every couple of years, it is far better to choose wallcoverings that won’t date too quickly.
Just as kids can soon get bored with their favorite characters, the same can also be true of themes. While your child may love unicorns, fairies, dinosaurs, or farm animals right now, this probably won’t be the same forever. They will probably quickly reach a point where these things no longer interest them. When this happens, they will want to get rid of any association of their previous interest. For you, this means redecorating their room all over again.
To avoid the need to keep on redecorating, it is best to opt for painting the walls in a neutral color. Painting the walls in a neutral color will provide you with a versatile background for the room that will act as a blank canvas. You can then choose to add embellishments, such as wall décal stickers, wall art, and pictures, that feature your child’s current interest. Doing this will make it so much easier to simply swap out the decorative accessories and update them with your child’s current interest, with no need to redecorate the walls.
Make it Comfortable
Your child’s bedroom performs so many different functions. A kid’s room is so much more than just a place to sleep. Kids will use their bedroom as a place to do homework, play with their toys, read, and spend time hanging out with their friends.
As your child’s bedroom has so many different functions to perform, it makes sense to make it as comfortable as possible. Equipping your child’s room with everything they need to complete all their activities comfortably will make it a much nicer place for them to spend their time.
Luckily, there are quite a few different ways to make your child’s room comfortable. Adding a rug to the floor will provide them with somewhere to sit and play with their toys in comfort. While kids bean bags are always the perfect choice for them to sit on to read books, chill out, watch films, and play video games.
When trying to make your kid’s room as comfortable as possible, it is also helpful to consider their furniture. There are many furniture items that can enhance your child’s room and ensure they love to spend time there. Thinking carefully about the type of bed you add to their room is a great place to start. Just as you don’t want to need to redecorate regularly, you also won’t want to keep on buying new furniture. Therefore, it is vital to choose furniture that grows with your child. Adding bunk beds to the room is a great choice. Bunk beds will enable you to always have a spare bed for guests, and as your child grows older and wants to have friends to stay over, they will have a bed ready and waiting for them. Bunk beds are also a great idea if you plan to have more kids in the future. The bunk beds will ensure that you have the perfect room for your kids to share.
Choose the Perfect Accessories
After decorating the room and ensuring that it is equipped to provide comfort to your child for many years, it is time to start thinking about accessories. Your choice of decorative accessories will provide the perfect finishing touches to your child’s bedroom and help it to become both practical and look great.
Adding plenty of storage accessories is essential if you plan to keep your kid’s room looking tidy and ensure that the space will grow with your child. Adding plenty of closet space to the room will ensure that even as their interests change as they grow, kids will have plenty of room to store their stuff and keep their room tidy. Accessorizing the room with quirky storage features, such as colorful cubes, chests, and fun shelving, will ensure that you have plenty of space, even when your child’s interests change over the years.
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