Creating the Perfect Fantasy Kids Rooms

By Joann Means

The first step to creating a fantasy kids room for your kid is to identify his or her fantasy. Does your child want to be a race car driver or an astronaut, a deep sea diver or a forest ranger, a Princess or a Pirate? To begin creating your kids fantasy bedroom, then, find out what your child's idea of a perfect fantasy kids room is.

The best fantasy kids rooms are those designed around a theme. Why? Because when all the individual elements of a bedroom contribute to the same overall vision, it creates a unity of elements and gives the room a comforting sense of wholeness that a slapdash jumble of every cool accessory and idea that catches their fancy can never give.

Help your child choose a theme for their fantasy kids room and you'll be able to create an entire world of their own that they can immerse themselves in with pleasure and delight.

Some fantasy theme room ideas for boys include: tropical jungle safari, ocean voyage, space voyage, vehicles (planes, trains, automobiles), construction zone, medieval kingdom, rock star, the Wild West - and so on.

Some fantasy theme room ideas for girls include: tea party, floral meadow or garden, Princess, movie star's dressing room, prima ballerina, carnival, animals, undersea world - and so on.

Once you and your child have settled on a theme, a easy way to begin designing a fantasy kids room around that theme is with a custom theme bed as its centerpiece. A little boy wanting a jungle fantasy theme room, for example, will go ape for a custom treehouse bed. A little girl wanting a Princess fantasy theme room, on the other hand, will treasure a custom castle bed. The possibilities are endless!

The added benefit of starting with a custom theme bed is that you can them create the rest of the fantasy kids room around that one prominent item.

A great next step is to select a color scheme based on the theme and custom bed. Pick pillows, bedding, curtains, borders, rugs, carpet, paint, wallpaper, furniture, accessories, all to compliment that color scheme. Oceanic scenes (whether above or below the sea), for example, will have a lot of blues. Garden parties and jungle safaris will have a lot of greens. You can see how easy it is to come up with colors once you've first chosen a theme.

The final step in the process, then, becomes simply to accessorize. Animal-themed fantasy kids rooms, for example, might call for some stuffed animals placed about, castle fantasy kids rooms (whether for a Princess or a Prince) might benefit from a coat of arms on the wall. Again, the ideas are endless.

So sit down with your kids as soon as you can, and start designing the fantasy kids rooms that will make their fantasies come true.

Joann Means has been helping families design fantasy kids rooms that kids and parents alike treasure for years. At the centerpiece of Joann's designs are custom theme beds built by Johnny Means, her husband and business partner in Sweet Dream Children's Interiors (http://www.sweetdreambed.com).

Visit Sweet Dream Children's Interiors (http://www.sweetdreambed.com) now and browse their galleries of photos of actual fantasy kids beds they've built and fantasy kids rooms they helped actualize. See Joann and Johnny's princess castle beds, cottage beds, treehouse beds, and more. And best of all, learn how a custom theme bed can turn any fantasy kids room into a combination bedroom, play room, study room, and storage space.

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7 Essentials For a Great Kids Theme Room

By Sally F Johnson

Being a parent can be an expensive venture in its own right, but when thinking about decorating a child's room some of us think it'll just cost too much!

The key to creating a great kids theme room is to do things in moderation. Nobody expects you to shell out hundreds of dollars in one hit to create a masterpiece room, however there are 10 simple rules you can follow to start creating that amazing room!

1. Spiderman is red and blue, as is Superman. Batman is Dark Blue and Black. The Disney Princesses can be pink, blue or yellow as long as you add some sparkle! The point is the beginning of a great kids theme room is with the color of the room. Painting the room to the colors of your kids hero is a great way to begin the theme.

2. The next most important item for your kids theme room is bedding. Some simple sheets, pillowcases and comforters in the theme of your choice can be enough to totally transform the look of the room.

3. Kids are scared of the dark, so one of the next most important things to get is a nightlight or lamp of some kind. Today we can find virtually any kind of character night light or lamp in most department stores.

4. Lots of theme rooms wouldn't be complete without a chair and/or desk that your child can sit at and pretend to be their hero or heroine. A chair is also a great item to have so that your child has somewhere to sit which is purely there's and nobody else's.

5. A wall clock is a great theme room accessory and it also helps to teach your child the time, a double bonus!

6. Now even if you decide not to paint a room the minimum you should be doing is putting up appliques, stickers and posters of your child's favorite character which will really make your kids theme room shine!

7. Don't forget toys. Having a room themed to their hero is one thing, but becomes boring if they don't have anything to play with to expand on that fantasy, so making sure that you have several toys based on that character is essential.

Of course these are just a few of the possibilities that you can introduce to your kids theme room and by no means covers everything you could do with a child's theme room, however this gives you a good basis to start with.

Creating a kids room will make you a hero in your own child's eyes so try to remember that when you run into any issues. If you're still stuck for ideas you can visit my site which talks all about theme rooms for kids with ideas and supplies for nearly any type of room you can think of!

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