I am a big fan of decorating a child’s bedroom with prints. They are an instant way of turning a bare wall into something magical, and a pretty inexpensive way of decorating your child’s room so that it feels really special to them. Now on our second round of print choosing for our daughter’s bedroom, today I wanted to share with you our golden rules for choosing prints for your child’s bedroom.
Have a space in mind
First and foremost when choosing prints for your child’s bedroom, have an idea of where the prints will be going within their room. Zone in which dedicated space in the room you plan to feature them, and know the dimensions. The worst thing is ordering a bunch of prints that are either too small or too big for the space.
I will literally get the dimensions of the prints/frames and measure them up against the wall we plan to hang them on to ensure that the end result will look as intended. This only takes a few extra minutes but is 100% worth the effort.
Look for prints on a site which has a great kids section
In my experience, some poster and print sites are better catered to children. When it comes to choosing prints for your child’s bedroom, we love using Posterlounge which has a fantastic range of gallery quality wall art for kids. Whether you are looking to decorate a nursery or have an older child in mind, there is plenty of choice for all age levels.
We chose the prints within this post from Posterlounge and would highly recommend them, especially as they come in a variety of materials including canvas prints, posters, acrylic prints, wood prints and so on. They also happen to ship right across Europe too.
Know their taste
Young children have very different taste to adults when it comes to adults. Younger children like bright and colourful artwork so be sure to choose something fun and positive that they will love to look at last thing at night before they go to sleep and wake up to in the morning. Anything with even the faintest notion of creepiness (my daughter has a thing about penetrating eyes!) is out of the question.
Let them pick
When choosing prints for your child’s bedroom – even if fancy yourself as an interior designer – resist the urge to take over and instead be sure to let your child choose. Letting them take ownership over the choosing process is the best way to ensure that the prints you eventually select will be a success. Children know what they like, and like what they know so the prints should be something that reflects their interests and personality. My daughter is mad on anything magical, unicorn or animal and bird-related – which is very much reflected in her print picks!
Fitting in
Having said that, there is nothing wrong with helping your child think about what would go with the room’s colour scheme and how the prints they are choosing will work together. Encourage them to imagine how the artwork will look in the room, and also look together. Although children aren’t too bothered about colour clashes, try to help them choose prints that will go with the overall colour scheme of their room.
We hope you found these tips for choosing prints for your child’s bedroom useful. What do you think of the prints my daughter chose for her room?
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I followed a lot of these tips when we decorated our sons room with prints of how favourite motorbike racers. It was fun to include him in deciding what designs he wanted and where they would go
also remember what that print will look like through a childs eyes in the dark! when I was young my wallpaper had giant flowers with huge black stamen in the dark it looked like spiders the size of an adult hand all over the room, scared me to death gave me nightmares! could not see the lovely pastel petals in the dark, only the black inner stamen!
Great article, will definitely be taking on this advice
My eldest loves flamingos!!
Dolphins in the sunset. As fond of animals.
Really helpful tips, thank you!
I would choose something like the pop art ducks or the aluminium polka dot one, as they are very colourful and they would brighten up my little girls new room ,as the walls are just white at the moment.
The bird is cute, my little one loves dinosaurs
We’re good at getting art for the home – the front room is for Jongkind and other beautiful art, and the kids get unicorns and dragons, they love them! And they learn from my art that there’s so much beauty in a simple impressionist piece of a street in Paris that tells a story xx
Great ideas my grandchildren ted to go for giraffe’s & unicorns & it’s important to I interpret colours so they stand out
Lily would love animal ones like the rabbit in your post
The Dinosaur Worldmap would be ideal for my dino mad son!
I think the Colourful Flower Meadow in Summer would look lovely on her wall. It’s colourful but not vibrant so would be calming. I also took the advice of one of your commentors about how it would look in the dark – no scary stamens.
Love the birds
MY DAUGHTER WOULD LIKE A RABBIT PRINT AS SHE LOVES BUNNIES
Thanks for some great tips! I am just decorating my son’s room for the first time and was stuck for inspiration until now.
my grandson would really love the FOAM BOARD PRINT
Camp Cretaceous – Indominus Rex
My granddaughter loves unicorns and my grandson loves dinosaurs so I would easily find suitable prints for them.
We’ve just moved so I’ve been thinking about how to decorate, especially the kids bedrooms. Reading this post has given me some great tips for wall art. Thanks.
My daughter would love the fairy prints as she completely believes in them!
I think my son would choose something Super Hero related
Mine is a teenager now so I would go with inspirational quotes
My Granddaughter would love anything to do with Unicrons mainly pink ones!
Unicorns as my grandaughter loves them
My daughter would love the Little Bunny print – we love bunnies in our house!
Hello, well I would actually be hoping to win this voucher for myself as I don’t have children. I really like the print ‘Beech Grove’ by Gustav Klimt as it is lovely. Thank you for the chance to win.
Lovely choices, this is such a quick and easy way to change up a room
My daughters are a teenagers so they’d like some of the more abstract prints to match the decor of their room
My daughter loves flowers
I’ve just decorated my stepson’s room; he hasn’t had a decorated room in over 10 years as my partner was renting. He’s a huge football fan, a budding geologist and loves The Avengers… what a mix! But we managed to get it all in on the walls
Would love the unicorn print for my daughters bedroom, thank you
l love to let them pick l think its great for encouraging their own identity and style
Jurassic World – Mosasaurus x
The unicorn print is just so colourful and would look beautiful in my nieces bedroom!
My daughter is really into animé at the moment (obsessed really) so it would have to be something in that genre.
Think they would like the unicorn print, as it looks magical
Lovely choices of prints, it’s great to let little ones help with the decor!
My granddaughter would love anything with a unicorn on it and my grandson would love dinosaurs!
Mystic unicorn castle my children love mystical magical Unicorns
The Fairy in the Castle would be a firm favourite with my 2 nieces they both love princesses and fairytale
Love the idea as part of identity
Unicorns are my daughters most favourite thing right now!
Can’t wait until I can start remodeling our spare room for our grandchild!
Colourful Flower Meadow in Summer looks perfect
My daughter Holly loves cats so I think cats would be her first choice xx
My son would love the PREMIUM POSTER Map of the world and the PREMIUM POSTER
World 1664 because he loves maps.
My daughter loves flamingos
Good advice, especially checking the size and letting the child choose. The cost of framing, if desired, if a poster is chosen is also a consideration.
The gorgeous rainbow print would look amazing in my daughter’s room. She would love it.
My grandson loves anything to do with space
kids enjoy having their input and choosing something for their rooms
Anything with sandy beaches, sand castles and shells as she loves being on holiday
I don’t have any children but I love the Hedgehog with Flowers
So much choice! My eldest is very into sugar skulls so she would probably choose a print with those on.