40 Bedroom Decorating Ideas for Kids and Tweens

When Hometalk contacted me about my post on my son's bedroom makeover and the light up headboard, they asked if I could curate a kids room board. My response was, "oh, yes, I can!"

There are hundreds or maybe thousands of fun ideas to make kids' and tweens' rooms more exciting. So much, that when the ideal board should contain 20; I came up with 40... just on Hometalk! More could very easily be added. So many creative rooms have been posted. 

(Click on photo for link to each Hometalk's "how to" for each feature.)

Let's take a look at some of the headboards. 

How about some clever bunking! 

And some decor ideas!

 

Accent walls can totally make a room.

Storage and display ideas can go wild.

As you can see, space can be decorated, painted, utilized, streamlined, personalized and themed. Every kid's room for any personality can be created for fun and fabulous!

I had fun putting this collaboration together and hope there is plenty of inspiration to get you motivated. So much potential for rooms large or small, the possibilities are endless!

Truck Headboard with Lights

It was time to turn boring wood furniture into something more fun and masculine for my tween. Everything in the room got a makeover. Including this twin headboard for his queen sized bed. (I know; it's not right.) With a small 9'x 11' bedroom and a much needed window in the way, the twin sized headboard fits best. You'll see why when you see the room reveal. 

Anyway, this little wooden headboard doesn't need to look so nursery room anymore; right? 

With a plan in mind, while reversing some bead-board paneling,  and cut to fit inside the frame, I screwed it on.

Primitive, I know, but you'll see it will be painted.

Painting with primer and paint in one, in an off white, gave me a blank canvas.

That "hard-to-draw-on-canvas" showed my "rough" sketch of an old 50's truck grill well enough to paint.
(Don't pay much attention to the sloppiness. It was just a sketching to place where I had to paint and what.)

Not really a pop artist, I attempted some color. Kind of poster looking, but it serves the purpose.

Then, I painted the frame in Country Chic Paint in Liquorice as with the rest of the furniture. 

Now, on to the plan. (big smile)
These battery operated lights are perfect for headlights on the truck.

So I taped off the light shield and painted them in chrome.

Then attached them where the headlights are on the front of the truck. See where I was going?

Oh, and for more fun, this cute little motorcycle license plate was a junk yard find. It fit perfectly so I attached it with sheet metal screws. Then it was off for mounting onto the wall.

Now, of course I had to add a little gallery above the headboard. The repurposed sewing machine lid and some license plates pulled the theme together. 

The lights are hand push for on and off with auto shut off. 

Perfect night light setting. 

As I suspected, my son man came home from school ecstatic. What the what???? "Mom, this isn't cool... it's AWESOME!" 

As long as he is happy, I'm happy.

Hmmm, you know what? I think painting garage doors with this idea would be cool. Well, without the nightlights... just the vehicles... looking like they are in the garage. That's one way to have a Ferrari ~  (wink!)

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Tween Boy Bedroom ORC Week 5

This is the last week of the One Room Challenge with Linda at Calling It Home and the pressure is on! All of the details need to be completed and our room finales are to be revealed next week. Eeeeek!

Even though I'm doing well as I'm crossing off the task list, there have been some stumbling bumps that I won't post. All of us participating in this challenge have done a lot of work and it would be a very loooong post if we noted everything.

I'm so stinking excited to have a room in this fixer upper house getting finished! So here we are with this All American Boy Bedroom so far:

The plan list:
Patch ceiling(the unexpected)
Paint walls (love the light gray)
Paint and put media center together (whew!)
Make tractor seat stool (dad wants it!)
Make /repurpose/ redo a desk (done!) 
Make desk lamp (um, put together a whole new look for one)
Paint chest of drawers (we all love it!)
Make 2nd lamp ("keeey-uuuute"!!)
Paint dresser (needs waxing and placing in room)
Paint mirror (waxing and hanging)
Make and paint headboard (finishing touches this week)
Upcycle trunk (yah, about that... I put it off and now need to get it done. Hey, I went shopping for bargains to add to the space and shopping counts!) 
Drapes (bought and hung...a necessity)
Pillows made (and one bought super cheap!)
Bedding ready
Accessories (desk) made and purchased and painted 
Decor (upcycle guitar(s), dogs, cars, trucks, sports... all American boy style)
Wall art (made and thrift bought!)
Telescope and Moonlight area (an afterthought added in!)
Airplane theme (small and another afterthought)

Here is what I've been up to...which is repurposing a lot!

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My youngest son loves Coca Cola because he is not allowed to have it but on rare occasions. I saved these bottle caps from Christmas.

A desk top from this 32 year old shelf unit I've carted with me since my oldest son was born. 

Desk lamp makeover. My office lamp is now a redo for our tween boy. 

Walmart and Target bargains.
I painted wired baskets and tray accessories for organizing in the room.

A thrift shop find... perfect for the dog lover! It's going over his desk.

Added reclaimed wood to the reused and made-over media center. Thrift shop cheap and ugly, but the wood is great for other uses!

Yah, that trunk. A curb side find that is supposed to be "awesome". I'm working on it. Really I am. It's inside the house now. The yucky stuff is pulled off it. It's just so much is going on and I know it will be easy when I finally get to it. 

And there are the little boy name letters that get a makeover (yes he scribbled on one of them years back). 

So anyway, those toddler letters got a USA paint job. A nice bright red, white and blue.

The bedding, curtain rods and drapes are bought. Toss pillows are made... except for one; super cheap from Target. 

We are keeping the ceiling fan as is. New globe though. The old one was plain and this new globe is a baseball. Pretty "cool".

Well, I need to add an airplane theme in. Just a small space. The young man loves planes and he does need a wall rack. I'll keep it simple... promise!

His moonlight and his world globe came together in an area. It was an afterthought to work in the moonlight he loves. It's remote controlled with waxing/waning features. The globe was too big for his desk area, so it moved in with the moon. They are quite happy together while creating their own little universe.

And that area motivated me to repurpose this page from the atlas map pages I added to his Route 66 lamp.

It went onto this vintage metal tray for an educational wall piece. 

I know... this is a lot to take in. As I design on a dime,  I'll post each segment "how to" as I catch up. That is after all, how Robin Redo It does it ;) 

My mind has been in high gear to get this entire room, and a small one at that, pulled together with all of the young man's interests and his certain "stuff"he is keeping. And for that reason, it has become "All American Boy" themed. 

What is so funny is... as I worked on this room,  that old 70's commercial kept going through my head... "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet".  That is what this room is really. Well, except for the food. We'll keep the munchies in the kitchen. ;) 

I found the commercial and it was fun watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqweygy9K9Y&feature=youtu.be

Now, let's go on over to see everyone else crunching this week! I peeked through all of the ORC posts on Wednesday and completely awed over them while anticipating the outcome next week. 

Jana Bek

Autumn Clemons

Coco+Kelley

The English Room

Vanessa Francis

Greige Design

Hi Sugarplum

I Heart Organizing

Jenna Sue Design

Stephanie Kraus

The Pursuit of Style

Julia Ryan

Savvy Home

Simple Details

Simply Grove

6th Street Design

Jill Sorensen

Swoon Worthy

Waiting on Martha

Kimberly Schlegel Whitman

Linda is doing an amazing job at her own house update challenge. It's major! Permits, construction, etc. And she is hosting our incredible One Room Challenges.  Let's check out the progress with the other linking participants! 

One Room Challenge™ Linking Event, Spring 2015, Week 5

Wish us all luck!