Choosing furniture, artwork and bedding for your child’s bedroom has become a mammoth task, often involving many trips to malls, department stores, children’s boutiques, and hours in front of the computer frantically searching for the latest ‘must have’ room accessories. After a short while, you might feel like you’re trapped inside a giant kaleidoscope! It doesn’t have to be that hard. As parents, we want to decorate our children’s room beautifully and tastefully, fill it with wonderful educational toys, and line the walls with quality artwork that will inspire happy dreams. If that sounds easy, that’s because it is. An easy way to coordinate your child’s bedroom is to choose a theme and select bedding, furniture, artwork, lighting, and rugs that complement that theme. Online children’s stores are the best places to find everything you need to decorate your child’s themed room.
So now all you need to do is choose a theme. Easy! Here’s a list of the top ten most popular kids’ bedroom themes of 2008. Start your decorating project with one of these themes and you can’t go wrong:
- color themes – And the color of the year is… pink! Almost all girls love pink. Of course, you don’t want EVERY piece in her room to be pink. While selecting large pink bedroom pieces such as bedding, rugs, and walls, you’ll want to complement your pink choices with other colors. For example, try a mint green rug, purple cushions, or sunny yellow artwork.
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles – The most popular automotive theme for a boy’s bedroom in 2008 is Fire Trucks. If your toddler loves all things fire trucks, there are plenty of options for dressing up their room, including custom fire truck canvas artwork, firefighter wall clocks, and firefighter table and chair sets. The best fire truck pieces for your child’s room are pieces that decorate while providing hands-on fun, like a retro Fire Engine rocking chair.
- animal themes – The animal of the year is the Monkey. Perhaps monkeys are so popular as bedroom themes because there is such a diverse and colorful selection of monkey bedroom decor and accessories that any boy or girl will love. With those big, innocent eyes, what child could resist a baby orangutan canvas or a monkey mantel clock with its furry arms pointing at the numbers or a monkey chandelier that will inspire giggles over and over again?
- flowers – Flowers, flowers everywhere! You can go crazy with this bedroom theme. Choose from various types and colors of flowers, such as daisies, sunflowers, and tulips, to give your bedroom a garden feel. Everything from a rose garden rug to a retro floral bed throw will be adored by your sunny little girl. Try complementing the flowers with flower-related items, such as a sun wall clock or canvas artwork depicting colorful fruit.
- Space – The final frontier has always captivated both big kids and little ones, and this year, one of the hottest themes for kids’ bedrooms is space. Spruce up your child’s room in a space theme with everything from solar system artwork to rocket ship bedding to astronaut ceiling lights!