Design Recipes: Make Your Child’s Room More Fun, Festive With These 10 Tips

Design Recipes: Make Your Child’s Room More Fun, Festive With These 10 Tips
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Tribune News Service
6/22/2022
Updated:
3/16/2023
By Cathy Hobbs From Tribune News Service

Children’s rooms by their very nature are meant to be bright, colorful and fun. Looking for ways to bring creativity into a children’s bedroom space? Here are some top tips.

1. Bedding. Bedding is a prime decor element and a key opportunity to infuse color prints and patterns.

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2. Citrus colors such as green, orange and yellow are both bright as well as gender neutral.

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(Africa Studio/Shutterstock)

3. Artwork is an opportunity to bring large-scale color into a children’s bedroom.

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(Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock)

4. Removable wall stickers provide an alternative to wallpaper and can be used to create an interesting accent wall.

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(Photographee.eu/Shutterstock)

5. Portable play items such as hammocks offer fun play spaces, especially for young children.

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(Evgeny Atamanenko/Shutterstock)

6. Shelving provides an opportunity for organization and display in children’s bedrooms. More great options are colorful bins and bags.

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7. Area rugs offer an opportunity to infuse texture and color into children’s rooms.

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(Followtheflow/Shutterstock)

8. Mix candy colors together if looking to create overall color that allows for a versatile scheme.

9. Select neutral primary pieces such as beds and dressers and infuse color through elements such as artwork, area rugs and accessories.

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10. Repurpose objects and decor in interesting ways. For example, use skateboards as shelving or a swing instead of a traditional seating or reading area.

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Cathy Hobbs, based in New York City, is an Emmy Award-winning television host and a nationally known interior design and home staging expert with offices in New York City, Boston and Washington, D.C. Contact her at [email protected] or visit her website at cathyhobbs.com.
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