If you’ve read our tips on how to decorate bedrooms for children, you may also be interested in how to affect gender-specific themed decors for boys. We gathered our panel of interior designers to take a look at the composition of children’s bedrooms and arrived at the following list of essential ingredients for a boy’s themed bedroom.
Wall Colours
The nautical theme is often the fall-back decor for most parents with young children, leading to the common use of various shades of blue to depict the sky and sea. Most boys bedrooms sport a palette dominated by blues, which work well as a background for a variety of animated characters.
The walls of this bedroom are saturated in sky-blue, serving as a background for the figurines distributed about the space. Designer: Surface R
Bedspread
The fabrics used on the bed can go a long way towards contributing to a theme by virtue of their size. Take special care to select a bedspread that is not only colourful, but also matches the other decorative features of the space in order to solidify a theme.
The bedspreads are the sources of the most vivid colours in this bedroom, providing the most obvious indication of the occupants’ genders. Designer: Q1 Interior Concept
Murals
Perhaps the most definitive element of any themed bedroom is the central decorative element. Instead of using subtle lines and subdued colours as in adult bedrooms, consider instead a bright and colourful painted mural over the headboard to serve as the theme’s centrepiece.
This boy’s bedroom embodies the superhero theme, combining various shades of blue in drapery and furnishings with characters from the Marvel Comics Universe above the fabric headboard, while images of DC Comics’ Superman occupies the bedspreads. Designer: We Interior
Accessories
Adding decorative accents to a boy’s space can help bring the theme to a head. The usual accessories would be favoured toys, but more mature boys may prefer sports equipment or recreational facilities.
This room forgoes shades of blue entirely in favour of an energizing yellow. The sports theme is affected by the mural of a soccer player. Designer: Design Base
Storage
Shelving can be made to fit particular themes in their designs, making it another viable point of focus when affecting a themed bedroom. Even at young ages, boys can pick up valuable life skills and train for adulthood while putting toys away and sitting down at desks for work.
This bedroom includes shelving and a desk, complete with drawers for additional storage. Designer: Space Matrix
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