Decorating your child’s room is a special opportunity to create a space that nurtures their personality and encourages creativity. Whether starting from scratch or upgrading, every parent aims to offer their child a cozy retreat. With thoughtful designs, stylish kid-friendly wallpapers, and clever ideas, you can turn your child’s room into their dream space.
Here are 10 tips to help you achieve the best children's room interior design that will grow with your child.
1. Choose a Fun and Flexible Theme
Choosing a theme helps you set the tone for your child’s space, and these can vary from anything between what your child enjoys, like or even particular colors, or books. Perhaps their favourite characters from a movie?
For example: a nature themed design for children with an adventurous personality, or marine and ocean motifs for their innate curiosity!
Opt for designs that are easy to upgrade as your child’s taste evolves. Our kids collection wallpapers feature colors, patterns, motifs, and animals that are whimsical and imaginative for your child’s space. Choose the designs that your child relates to the most!
You can also create custom designs that your child loves, by simply sharing a reference with us and make your space truly personalised for your kid!
When you’re choosing a theme, also remember that it makes it easier to coordinate the other elements of the room like bedding, decor and furniture, along with the kid wallpapers.
2. Incorporate Kid-Friendly Wallpapers
Speaking of kid wallpapers, one of the most impactful ways to transform a child’s room is by starting with the walls. They are something you look at everyday and while they are a simple aspect of a room, they don’t have to be boring.
Our collection of kid wallpapers come in a variety of playful, artistic designs that add personality and charm to your child’s space. Whether it’s vibrant shapes or adorable looking animals, there’s something that interests every child. We recommend making this into a fun activity where you and your child can choose the wallpaper you both love! After all, it’s their room!
Turn this activity into quality-time by using our “see it in your room” feature. You can try out the wallpaper virtually and make the best choice for your child’s space.
3. Invest in Multi-Functional Furniture
When designing a child’s room, it’s important to think beyond aesthetics, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t fulfill your interior design dream while including your kid’s room. Look for furniture that serves multiple-purposes to maximize space, like storage beds, fold out desks and multi-tiered bookshelves. This ensures functionality. But let’s also talk style. You can match the furniture to the colour palette of your wallpapers. An earthy colour palette for a nature inspired wallpaper? A pop of colour in furniture to go with the wallpaper your child loves? The sky's the limit.
4. Use Colors to Set the Mood
Colors are one of the most important elements in an home interior design project like your child’s room. You can choose soft calming pastels for a serene atmosphere or bold vibrant colors that inspire energy and creativity. Either way, you can choose to set the tone of the room with the right wallpaper, or even an accent wall with your chosen wallpapers from our kids collection, and even through fun colored curtains or rugs that go with the palette. 
5. Personalize the Space with Art and Photos
Memories are an important part of any room, let alone a child’s. Add framed photographs of fun trips, your favourite moments, or art pieces that reflect your child’s hobbies. You can also have them involved in the process by letting them choose the art they like, or create their own. A personalized touch is essential for making your child’s room feel like their own, adding a meaningful element to the space.
6. Create a Cozy Nook
Whether your child is a reader, a painter, or a gamer, creating a unique space in their room for activities is essential. Create a comfy corner with seating, and soft lighting to make the space inviting for your child to nurture their hobbies. You can use a bean bag or a small chair to create a spot that becomes the designated “reading nook” or “battle station” when they play.
7. Incorporate Fun Lighting Fixtures
Lighting plays a huge role in interior designing, and the child’s room is no exception. It is also important to choose lighting based on the wallpaper of your choice for your child’s room. Too much yellow lighting can take away from the dynamic colours of your wallpaper, but too much white lighting can be too harsh as well.
It’s best to use a combination of ambient, task and accent lighting to make the room functional and aesthetic. A soft ceiling light, along with a table lamp or fairy lights can add a beautiful touch to the space.
8. Add Playful Accessories
Accessorizing the room with plush toys, rugs, pillows and curtains that match and compliment the design of the room is important. Opt for items that can be easily replaced if needed without a hassle so that along with your child, there is room for their taste to grow.
9. Plan for the Future
Finally, it’s important to design a child’s room with their future needs in mind. As your child grows, their taste evolves. Be sure to select wallpapers with design elements that can easily be upgraded with minimal effort. Here are some great options from our collections.
The Mural Story provides premium quality wallpapers like silk, leather, sandpaper and more with customisable designs for your walls. Our designs are reviewed and handpicked thoroughly for quality control, so that your home gets only the best. What’s more? You can try out our wallpapers on your walls via the “see it in your room” innovative feature before you choose!
We hope this helps you create a timeless design for your toddler, with customizable options and elements so they transition into a tween and beyond!
10. Discover Premium Wallpapers from The Mural Story
The Mural Story offers premium-quality wallpapers like silk, leather, and sandpaper textures with customizable designs. Every product undergoes thorough quality checks to ensure the best for your home.
What’s more? Our innovative “see it in your room” feature allows you to visualize wallpapers in your space before making a choice.
