Kids' Bedroom Inspiration

When we first moved to a brand new house nearly five years ago, everything was all bland white walls without curtains. Getting our kids' bedroom done was the first thing we had in our mind. We did not paint right away because we knew the kids' change their minds when it comes to the bedroom theme.

Instead of painting the wall for the first five years, we created bed setting to make sure that they are sticking the to the characters they like. Dylan immediately wanted, "Nemo." That was when he was nearly three years old. Ryan had the Winnie the Pooh Bed from Dylan's toddler bedspread. Fortunately, they were able to sleep through the night with the bland white wall and blinds.

As the kids got older, they were interested getting into the bedroom theme. We started out painting Ryan's room as a trail and errors. The ceiling was painted baby blue as a sky with white clouds. The more color they see in Ryan's room, they got excited even Dylan. He knew his room was next.

While we were painting Ryan's room, we encouraged them to help us painting the green hills for Thomas and His Friends Bedroom Theme. Ryan was so excited to sleep on his bed with glowing stars, ceiling fans, desk and seeing all of the Thomas and His Friends on the wall. Now, he wanted to change to a different bedroom theme: Hot Wheels, Speed Race or Wall-E. In fact, he couldn't make his own mind up. If he kept changing his mind, we will wait until he makes up his mind, then we easily would be able to put the new borders over the train tracks. It would not make any difference.

After we finished painting Ryan's room, we started doing in Dylan's room. We created Cars Bedroom Theme. It was not an easy task because his mural borders were created in different lengths on the wall. Also painting part of the red was difficult to cover the white wall.

Dylan had everything like Ryan's (desk, ceiling fans, and computer and glowing stars. ) The only thing Dylan had asked us NOT to put the white clouds in his room. Do you know why? It was because he did not want to copy Ryan's. So far, he has not talked about changing to a different bedroom theme. We would not be surprised if he asks me in a couple of months from now.

As of right now, they started to close their bedroom door when they wanted to read books, playing with the computer or doing homework. I learned from reading a research that it is very normal for kids to do this kind of stuff (closing their bedroom door) at this age. It was a good thing they did not have the locks. What's next???

Besides shutting their bedroom door, do you have any childhood bedroom memories? If so, please share it with me.