Decorating Your Child's Bedroom

It's time to dismantle the changing table you no longer need, and take down the crib before your child leaps headlong into certain injury. Your baby is no longer a baby and the decorations on the wall don't seem any more appropriate than the furniture you just removed. It's time to redecorate your child's bedroom and you want to make it as unique and imaginative as your little one's finger paintings. What does it take to give your child the room of his or her dreams - a room that can take them through their childhood with style, but be practical as well? Here are some ideas to help you get started.

Consider your child's personality. It is definitely necessary to approach this project in a different way than you would to decorate a bedroom for an adult. The room should reflect your child's personality, not yours. The first step you should take is to talk to your child about what he would like to see in his room. You probably already know his favorite colors and, but as him if he'd like to decorate his room with a certain theme, whether it be a sport, space, or a favorite television character, and purchase coordinating borders, bedding and window treatments with their wishes in mind.

Experts say it's important to consider the growth of your child as you plan the design of the room. He or she will probably be using it for a few years and maybe into their teens.

When my son turned five, we redecorated his room incorporating the red and blue colors of Spiderman with a twin sized, plastic red racecar bed that thrilled him to no end. When he turned ten, I started noticing that he closed his bedroom door before his friends came over and they hardly ever played in his room. That was when I knew it was time for a change. The racecar bed had to go, but Spiderman hung on until we moved a couple of years later. If we hadn't moved, he'd probably have been happy to go along with the Spiderman border and curtains indefinitely.