Decorating Your Home Dungeon Sensibly and Inexpensively

Dungeon Decor on a Dime

Imagine a castle dungeon, a medieval ambience of intrigue and history. Now, imagine your dungeon reverberating with soft moans of pleasure, the crack of the whip, the clinking of chains…

Your Grownups’ Dungeon Playroom can be a fun décor project, and inexpensively put together, or it can be a knockout room for a great Halloween gathering, or, it can be a terrific party room for all your Renaissance Fair friends. Your imagination is the only limit! 

I started out by completely emptying the room I had chosen for our Dungeon, to get an idea exactly how much room I had to play with. It helps to roughly sketch the dimensions, as well as the features (doors, windows, closets, light fixtures and wall plugs, etc.) on a sheet of graph paper, but blank drawing paper works nearly as well. Now, decide what you want to put into the new Dungeon. I wanted a corner cage, several stools (high and low) for seating or whatever, some interesting castle type lighting, maybe a few ‘tapestries’ on the walls, a small daybed for cuddling or daydreaming, and starlight on the ceiling. Not that much to ask for, I don’t think.

First, I removed the sliding closet doors, to give me more room. I placed a small twin sized mattress on top of front loading storage cubes in the closet, so that the mattress was half in and half out of the closet, making it very cozy and ready for dramatic draperies. The bed canopy I made from inexpensive sarongs, purchased at import stores for around $5 a piece, but you could also use large swaths of any gauzy fabric, attached on the ceiling over the center of the bed with a staple gun. I like the Celtic design sarongs in blues and reds for draperies, canopies and window treatments, but you could choose any theme you particularly like.