Kid’s room furniture is really a chance for you to have a lot of fun. You might want to spend most of your decorating budget on the appearance of the rest of your home. However it is quite easy and inexpensive to decoupage the front of your dresser drawers. You could use a very fun theme with a lot of details. The great thing of this kind of medium is that you won’t even have to paint just because you will be using paper. It’s perfect if you aren’t an artist. Each drawer could be a different fairytale.

Another option would be to go with kind of a whimsical theme. You could just paint different words on top of each dresser drawer. This could include the child’s name or a nursery rhyme. This will really give darker wood furniture more of a youthful feel. Another option would be just to go with wall words. Just because then you will be able to change them. Of course when you go with anything removable in a child’s room you need to make sure that it is out of reach.

If you’re painting the furniture then you have a wide range of colors that you can choose from. Of course neutral colors are probably the most predictable. Instead of painting the walls you could paint the furniture. This is really going to give a dramatic impact and ensure that you have a one-of-a-kind piece.

You could have a lot of fun by just trying a hand painted effect. This is very popular in adults furniture and is also a way to get more of a sophisticated feeling to a child’s room. For instance you could just go with a glamorous stencil over the drawers. You could leave the natural wood underneath. This can really pull together furniture pieces in the room. Even if you just do this on a small side table it’s really going to tie in other mismatched pieces in the room.

Another opportunity for you to have a lot of fun with kids furniture is to just make it feel quite contemporary. This means that your kids can have the cool kind of room on the block. You can do this quite easily just by taking away the normal preconceptions of what this kind of furniture would be usually be. Then find ways to work with more of a sophisticated theme but still get those whimsical touches into the space. For instance you could create kind of a Zen or spa like vibe in the room. This is a very relaxing space that you’ll enjoy being in as well. In this kind of room the furniture should either be very dark or very light wood. A two tone effect could also be quite appropriate. Then you could place it against a light wheat colored wall. This will be a theme that most other kids aren’t going to have in their room.

By Sara Gilmore