There comes a time in every parent’s life when you realize your son is no longer a baby. Where he once barely noticed the cute little bears or happy little elephants that decorated his nursery, your little man now not only notices them, but he’s probably also pretty vocal about what he likes and he doesn’t.
Decorating a boy’s bedroom doesn’t have to mean sticking up a bunch of garish posters and letting style go out the window with those cute little bears and pastel colors. Get creative and tap into his interests to create a dream bedroom that’s just for him. Start here by checking out our kids area rugs then check out these six creative ideas for putting together a fun and inspired little boys room. No matter what his interest, there’s something here for every boy to get excited about.
Touchdown!
Create a space for your ultimate sports fan in a creative way. Use green area rugs for the boy who loves summer, decal, paint or stencil baseball stitching onto the wall behind his bed. For a football fan, paint a yellow goalpost on the wall behind his bed and purchase bedding in his favorite team’s colors. Continue this idea for the basketball fan by swapping out the green carpet for hardwood or just neutral floor covering and give him a loft bed complete with a basketball hoop hanging from one side.
Camp Sleep All Day
Indulge the boy who always wants to be outdoors with a tent bed. Use canvas to create a tee-pee style tent over his mattress. Pull back two of the sides just as you would with a real tent so that he can easily crawl in and out. Decorate the front with a dreamcatcher and string white Christmas lights inside the tent’s ceiling.
Boy’s only!
This idea embraces the classic tree house fort. You’ll need to break out the hammer and nails for this one. Construct a loft for your child’s bed. Surround it with a faux tree house complete with walls and windows in the front and sides. A small wooden ladder provides an easy way to the top. Stain the wood in his favorite color and accessorize with decals on the walls that look like tall trees.
Blast off
Any little guy who’s dreamed of traveling in outer space will enjoy having his own space room. Paint the ceiling a deep cobalt blue. Add white decals for the moon, a few planets, and maybe even a space shuttle. Attach a few glow-in-the-dark stars to really set the mood when the lights go out. You can easily compliment this look with white or red walls or a white chair rail and bead board.
Take a trip to Legoland
Who doesn’t love Lego? Any child who’s a fan of building with Lego blocks would love a room devoted to the hobby. Choose a palette of primary colors for the room including yellow, royal blue, red, and green. Attach a ton of 10 x 10 Lego building plates (you can find them for around $7 a piece on Amazon) to one wall to provide a built-in vertical building space. Stencil or paint large Lego men onto the opposite wall to accessorize.
Beep, zoom, soar
Lots of little boys love anything that “goes”. As many moms and dads know, anything with wheels and a motor is a surefire bet to make his eyes light up. Indulge your future driver (or pilot or boat captain) with a room devoted to transportation. The bed can become a fire engine when you paint the sides red and add white and black detailing. A ceiling fan becomes a helicopter when you install a decal above it and use the fan’s blades as the propeller. Let his desk mimic airplane seating complete with a tray table that pulls down out of the wall. Finally, paint one wall with chalkboard paint to let him add his own drawings of planes, trains, and automobiles.