Decorating a kid’s bedroom can be so much fun! Their tiny little frames mean that all the furniture is small but the energy levels are still through the roof, unless your child is a teenager then the furniture is full-sized and so are the hormones! Today we want to show you how to base your child’s room design around great kid’s furniture designs or one signature piece to create a space for your children that is useful, safe, and sweet to look at.
Beds, storage, desks, play zones, and maybe even an indoor swing (which we’ll talk about later) are just a handful of pieces of kid’s furniture that you have to play with when you’re furnishing a child’s room. A good place to start is considering the age of the child and what they love so you can use this to inform the scale of the furniture and what you can add to make the room fit your individual child in a way that makes them feel safe and at home. Wallpaper, decals, rugs, and even just simple paint are fantastic decorative accompaniments that you can use alongside the furniture to really craft the look you are trying to achieve to create a space that any kid would love.
Picking a theme to base inform your design is also a key factor in making the room feel cohesive and adds an extra element of fun, whether it’s Paw Patrol for little kids or Captain America for the older ones, a good theme will get you far!
So if you have little ones (or you’re expecting one soon) here are:
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50 Kid’s Furniture Design That Will Change up Your Child’s Space
1. All in One Kid’s Sleeping Unit
Children and all their accessories can take up a lot of space but with some clever design, you can consolidate all of it into one neat package. This incredible all-in-one unit manages to sleep two children comfortably in the L-shaped bed. A little set of stairs lead up to the top bunk where they are kept safe with a slatted railing. The balustrade of the stairs hasn’t been wasted because they’ve been fitted with little hooks to store a whole set of little cats. It has been painted a nice muted grey that contrasts the bright colors that come with kids’ linen and toys.
2. Whimsical Themed Bed with Novelty Wallpaper
This cute whimsically themed bedroom is based around the novelty wallpaper beside the bed printed with fluffy clouds and flying whales. The bed has been built into a little house-shaped niche with a hot air balloon hanging over the pillows as if the child is asleep floating amongst the clouds. The design is accented with colorful bunting and large animal plushies including a whale to match the wallpaper.
3. Fun Indoor Swing in a Neutral Room
White and grey is an unusual color scheme for a child’s bedroom but where it lacks in color in makes up for fun! The low futon bed is fitted within a three-dimensional house-shaped frame that has been color washed a neutral grey, which makes bedtime much more fun. The best feature of the room however is the indoor swing, which has been hung by a secure joist to create this unique toy for your child that they can enjoy regardless of the weather.
4. Simple House Framework
A stunningly whimsical design like this is bound to make any child excited for bedtime! A massive oversized rabbit beanbag lounges against a low futon bed with a framework built around it that mimics a basic house shape painted a dusty blue. This color has been brought through the whole room in different shades, which is decorated with a string of stars and cloud spotted wallpaper to create a space that a child will love to spend their time in.
5. Miniature VW Bunk Bed
If originality is what you’re looking for, this fun loft bed is for you! This miniaturized VW bus in graphic red and white seems to have been parked in the corner of the room with a little stepladder to the bed that has been fitted to the roof rack. The side doors have been left open to reveal a little play area inside that lets the children have fun and sleep all in one small space that looks really cute into the bargain. The raised bedside is decorated with a mounted shelf and bunting to bring the look together.
6. Multi-Use Fun Play Area
If you have a small space to work with, a unit like this can occupy a child for hours without them getting bored in one small space. The multi-leveled object features a set of stairs with netting running all the way up to a platform where a little timber and fabric tent sits. The base features colorful boxes for storage that pull out from under the stairs, a circular padded seat, and some bookshelves. There are even gymnastics rings hanging from the bar stairs. This is really all a kid could ever want.
7. Sculpted Bean Bag Chairs
If you are working at home but need to keep the little ones in your line of sight then these beanbags chairs are your answer. These specially designed beanbag chairs have been sculpted and gathered into the center that can adapt to fit a child of any size, even a small baby could rest in there with no risk of falling. These chairs are comfy and in fun colors so they will add to your office’s interior design and give you peace of mind that your little one is safe.
8. Space Inspired Homework Station
This futuristic style bedroom design is all based around the full-sized space mural that occupies one whole wall. A simple glossy white desk sits in front of a set of twisted orange shelves that wave their way across the wall with some painted blue accents. A circular orange circular graphic has also been painted around the TV. Paint is a great way to enhance the interior design that is cheap and will inspire an older children to sit down and do their homework.
9. Half Built House Bunk Beds
Bunk beds are a standard when it comes to kid’s bedrooms but this one sets itself apart with a framework built around the beds that resemble a partially built barn with some wood paneling on the walls and roof complete with a little window. The structure has been color washed a neutral grey to contrast with the bright colors that always seem to be present in kids’ bedrooms.
10. Blue Mountains and a Strange Rectangular Tree
This gorgeous contemporary nursery has been based around white walls with royal blue stylized mountains that run all the way along one wall with small silhouettes of a pair of pale blue deer in one corner. The crib is constructed from raw sealed wood in little dowels that look like stylized trees against the mountainous backdrop. A deep blue velvet chair sits beside the crib where you can read your baby a story before bed.
11. Simple Baby’s Room with Rocking Chair
The design of this little nursery has been informed by the pastel blue of the walls that envelope the white chair and wooden crib with hints of blue throughout the room. The beautiful slatted crib is a classic style that has the added mechanism that allows it to be lowered and raised so you can adjust the level as the child grows. The simple room also features a little round mobile and a contemporary little rocking chair that you can sit in to rock your baby to sleep.
12. Music Themed Teen’s Bedroom
Teens can be messy but this cool teen bedroom has been solved with a shelf unit built around the bed that provides plenty of space for storage along with the trunk at the foot of the bed. The rest of the room has been tastefully decorated with a patchwork quilt in muted tones and electric guitars hanging from the exposed brick wall to keep their expensive hobbies off the floor and safe.
13. School Locker and Bean Bag Chair
With a quirky little collection of furniture, this fun little corner has been created to be useful and cute at once. A set of school-style royal blue lockers have been used as a novelty storage closet with upcycled wooden boxes mounted onto the wall as shelves. Below the shelves is a large, soft grey and white speckled beanbag chair that all kids seem to love that provides your child with a comfy spot to relax or read a book.
14. Space and Airplane Themed Room
Space and airplanes seem to be a common theme when it comes to kids’ rooms because of how beautifully they can be achieved. The feature wall behind the bed has been wallpapered in a dark grey with white with constellations mapped across it. The sheets on the bed match the constellations on the wall covered in cushions decorated with airplanes and even more plushie airplanes scattered about the room. The bed has special drawers built-in so the room will stay clean and nothing will get lost under the bed.
15. Two-Child Room and Play Area
This large bedroom manages to accommodate two small children in relative comfort in this navy blue room with its bright white ceiling. Two little beds sit on either side of the room with matching duvet covers and a strip of patterned red carpet running between them to divide the side of the bedroom. The room is large enough to include a play area that they can share with a toy cabinet on wheels, a play table, and a little tent to play imaginary games in.
16. Fun Lego Themed Bedroom
This incredibly fun Lego-themed room has used Lego in many forms to make this really unique and fun. Thin, massively oversized Lego pieces have been mounted on the wall as décor, locked into one another to form layers strategically placed in the neutral grey room. Oversized Lego pieces have also been used to create the bedside and side tables that litter the room. In addition to the actual pieces, Lego people have been painted all over the walls and both little beds have been covered in brightly colored Lego duvet sets.
17. Chalkboard Teen’s Bedroom
If you want to earn some major ‘cool parent’ points then provide your teen with a really chic and cool teen bedroom that your kids will want all their friends to see. The feature wall has been painted in chalkboard paint so they can decorate their space using their talent. The main feature is the futon bed that has been encapsulated by a wood-paneled frame that runs along the floor, up the walls, and onto the ceiling in a multitude of thicknesses and shades.
18. Graphic All in One Bedroom Unit
In a similar iteration to the L Shaped multi-use units, we have seen previously this has been built out of white and pale wood and incorporates two single beds, a set of stairs, little pockets of storage, and a built-in lamp. Each step has a deep drawer built into each riser in each one to maximize the space. Beside them, a vertical handle has been installed so a small child can get to bed safely. The wall behind it has been painted with chalkboard paint so they can doodle on the walls without getting into trouble.
19. Vivid Spacious Kid’s Bedroom
This almost sophisticated children’s bedroom has a contemporary base with olive green walls and chevron wooden flooring, which acts as a backdrop to the white vintage cabinets and desk. This could be an adult’s bedroom before the colorful bit of fun has been sprinkled in through the white framed bed covered in brightly colored, pink chair and vivid patchwork rug. This brightens the space and makes it’s a fun space for a child to be in.
20. Nautical Themed Kid’s Bedroom
The whole design of this little bedroom has been based around the brightly colored sea-themed carpet. Basic timber furniture with a director’s chair has been used as a desk, which is the perfect seat for a child. The space has been decorated to look nautical with a large model boat with a little and a red and white striped lighthouse tapestry next to it. There’s even space for a little chalkboard easel. This is the kind of decorating that could be used for a child ranging in age so you won’t be redecorating all the time as your child grows up.
21. Dramatic Wall Mural
The most basic bedrooms can be completely transformed merely using one large wall mural. This could also be a commissioned mural so that you can theme it to whatever your child is most crazy about. With something like this on a wall the rest of the room can be simple and neutral, saving money while making a big impact.
22. Sophisticated Double Bedroom
This shared bedroom is very large with a pair of quite spacious beds covered in matching duvet covers that makes sharing a room a little more harmonious. A mutual desk with built-in storage that is both useful and provides a barrier for a little more privacy divides the beds. Periwinkle blue cabinets have been built around the beds with buttercup yellow shelves below them that are pleasing to the eye because they are both versions of primary colors.
23. Large Modern Children’s Bedroom
The base for this large bedroom is a wallpaper that is in black and white rather than the bright colors that are expected. This seems to be the ethos that this whole design uses since it has all the fittings of a children’s bedroom but in a more muted fashion. Pops of buttercup yellow have been used throughout the room to enliven the space a little bit. The furniture is all vintage but small enough to be used by an older child.
24. Cool Older Kid’s Bedroom
Again, here we see a more minimal take on kid’s decorating for an older child who is growing out of their previous room. The space is outfitted with comfy furniture from the navy velvet bed to the wicker chair hanging from the ceiling with a big soft cushion. This is a cool teen’s bedroom that they can hang out in with their friends or play the guitar badly.
25. Space and Robots
Just as your son has been upgraded to a big boy bed this space-themed bedroom is a perfect celebration! The bed is fitted with a soft grey headboard and little side panels to prevent them from rolling out of the bed as they get used to the new bed. Little constellations are mapped across the wall above the bed with plushie robots and planets hanging from the ceiling to scatter in the theme throughout the room.
26. Novelty Sea Inspired Kid’s Bedroom
The muted color scheme of this room means that all the focus is on the décor itself. This unique sea-themed room has a special boat for a bed complete with an anchor, a ship’s wheel, and a sail draping overhead against the backdrop of some fish and sea printed wallpaper. The rest of the furniture is whitewashed in a classic nautical style with a wavy rug over the flooring that imitates the texture and color of sand.
27. Soft and Colourful
This incredible royal blue and crimson room is full of soft furnishings that visually stimulate your child and prevent any bumps and bruises while they play. A trio of little polygonal seats sits on a soft grey carpet beside a cute little day bed with round blue cubby holes built into the wall behind it in the same royal blue shade. This bright room is completed with a round shelving unit and a wacky three-headed lamp.
28. Spacious Bedroom with Fun Storage
This stylish room is ideal for an older child, it even looks almost like an adult’s room until you notice the shrunken furniture and large bear peeking out of a basket in one corner. A bright color that will kids love is brought in through the large rectangular orange rug and colorful bed linen that livens up the grey feature wall. The furniture itself, the tiny delicate desk and bedside drawers, are a vintage style that has been rendered in miniature with little winding shelves that wander above the desk fitted with some little wooden doors.
29. Double Set of Beds and Chairs
In a perfect example of a harmonious shared room situation, this room uses a similar bed unit to the one we saw in example 18. The pale timber bunk beds have built-in shelving and a set of stairs with a deep drawer built into each riser to maximize storage. A corner desk has been built into one corner so they can do their homework side by side with their own set of drawers. The whole backdrop to this gorgeous room is grey walls decorated with bird and flower white decals with purples accents throughout the room.
30. Ultra-Cool Teen Bedroom
This cool teen room gives your child a place to socialize in privacy at home to instill a feeling of trust and independence. The large bed looks like it’s made up of only cushions so they will get the best sleep, which is essential for growing teens. The room is pretty busy with space for their hobbies like the guitar and telescope and a little L-shaped purple couch for them to relax on with their friends. What sets this room apart is the wall décor with black and white collaged wallpaper behind the bed with exposed brick behind it and a huge wallpapered feature wall celebrating The Beatles.
31. Pitched Wallpapered Kid’s Bedroom
The aesthetic of this young child’s room might be stripped of color but with all of the fun still present from the little striped tent to the pair of round wooden swings with thick rope hanging them from roof beams. The large pitched space has been wallpapered across the walls and ceiling in a wide patterned design with black crosses strewn across the surface and all the seams emphasized by black strips that make this room feel special and different. The fun room has long thick futon mattresses covered in a patchwork of cushions that runs down one side where the children can have a nap in their amazing play space.
32. Stylish Teen Bedroom
In a similar style to example 21 this teen’s room has been decorated with a huge stretched wall vinyl that runs from floor to ceiling beside the stylish windows and exposed brick wall. This particular example uses a dramatic Batman print but you could adapt this idea to fit anything that your teen really loves. The rest of the room features an armchair with a little side table and, most importantly, a foosball table, which makes the teen feel cool and happy to have their friends hanging out there.
33. Jungle Themed Bedroom
Framework beds like this seem to be very popular and it’s very clear why. The exposed timber house framework built around the futon bed is cute and fun, which makes getting them to go to bed that little bit easier. This house bed, with its sage green bedding, finds itself in a jungle-themed setting with forest green walls and a faux living wall that appears to be growing beside it. This lovely design is accessorized with a woven lion’s heads wall sculpture and a plush crocodile crawling across the floor.
34. Cool Modern Shared Bedroom
This graphic shared bedroom for slightly older children has been carefully laid out using color to separate the two sections of the room. One side is blue-toned and the other yellow, which is used throughout the space from the matching suede beds to the graphic honeycomb pattern on the walls that blend from the blue to the yellow across the wall. The beds sit in on either side of the shared wide dresser with a desk whose chairs match the beds sitting opposite so each child has plenty of space.
35. Blue Graphic Nursery
The whole design of this adorable nursery has been based around the color blue in many shades. It all starts with the feature wall that is navy blue with white and orange polka dots spotted erratically across it that the white adjustable crib sits in front of. The shades of blue are continued throughout the soft furnishings like the graphic rug, crocheted footrest, and azure cushions. The last piece of essential furniture in this nursery is the large rocking armchair with a standing lamp beside it where you can read your baby stories and rock them to sleep.
36. Luxurious Modern Kid’s Bedroom
This huge modern bedroom has a similar neutral color palette that we’ve seen used in a few previous examples interrupted by pops of yellow that makes the room feel cool for an older child. Yellow has been used to enliven the large cupboard, which keeps the space neat, and a bright headboard. The rest of the room is very sophisticated with amazing floor-to-ceiling windows, one huge chalkboard wall opposite them, and a large bean bag chair to relax on.
37. Modern Preteen Bedroom
In another older child’s bedroom, this room has plenty of space that is minimal but playful in small ways. Pops of red have been used all around the room in the cyclist painted on the back of the door, the rug, and mounted box shelves. The rest of the room is outfitted with white vinyl and timber that have been mounted on the walls as cupboards and in the form of a fun little rolling chest of drawers that they can move around the room as they please.
38. Creative Kid’s Work Station
This is a custom Scandinavian desk that is sure to get any child excited about doing their homework. It has been cleverly made of engineered timber in a matte timber finish that appears to have no visible joins with a very distinctive cross-shaped stool and tripod desk. This has been placed into an all-white interior, which is very trusting and teaches the child to be tidy. The minimal style is continued onto the wall décor with a three-dimensional oversized K with little boxes mounted on the wall that can be used as little desk storage spots.
39. Kid’s Play Area Indoors
The playroom that has been created by the space below this wooden loft has been transformed into the most incredible play area. Gymnastics rings hang from the loft’s floor joists it for them to swing on. Below that is a convex hill of green that can be used for so many games alongside a little road map carpet. Against the wall is a little wooden stool with a modern wooden dollhouse sitting on top so that you can store the wooden cars away in a fun way and make cleaning up more exciting.
40. Interactive Kid’s Floor Rug
This study and play area have a really muted white and grey color palette that remains neutral on the study side while the child’s side is a riot of color. The exposed brick wall between has been painted white as the neutral zone between the two. The color has been brought on the child’s side through the rug, pillows, and shelving system. The interactive rug lets your child drive their cars around it and keeps them occupied while you work. The green has been repeated on the couch that’s scattered with green and red cushions while the shelf brings in more crimson in a cool angular shape.
41. Clever Recessed Bunk Beds
The layout of this room has been adapted to create a recessed nook by removing cupboard doors and building the custom bunk bed system into place. The renovated closet has space for two small children to sleep in the bright blue beds with drawers built underneath and a little ladder fixed on one side. The black and white tree unifies the spaces because the wallpaper is used inside and out in a way that is quirky and fun. The lack of bed leaves space for a miniature set of tables and chairs in an industrial style sitting on a colorful animal rug.
42. Cool Car Themed Kid’s Bedroom
This bright double volume bedroom is perfect for a child that is old enough for a big boy bed but young enough to still play with cars. The big ‘Cars’ print on the dark feature wall is the backdrop for the main piece of furniture which is the egg-shaped futuristic chair accompanied by a cool, futuristic standing lamp. The white carpet and checkerboard rug provide plenty of space for a huge car racetrack lit by cool loft-style windows.
43. Extreme Soccer Lover’s Kid’s Study
Have trouble getting your child to do their homework? Covering your child’s entire room in their passion even up to the desk couldn’t possibly fail to make them more enthusiastic to do homework. Astroturf covers the walls and floor with a huge goal net wall and ceiling lit opposite that is lit from behind, which bathes the room in a gentle light. The carpet has been designed to resemble a soccer pitch with positions marked on them with x’s like a manager strategizing on paper.
44. A Boy’s Bedroom Design That is Out of This World
This large bedroom is perfect for a child who loves space and takes advantage of the ample bedroom space. One huge space mural, complete with planets, has become the backdrop to a fun play station that is shaped liked a vintage rocket. The timber structure has been painted in a red and white checkerboard with little curving steps that lead up to a little niche where they can sit and play imaginary games under a star-speckled black ceiling.
45. Neutral Study Loft Bed
The whole design of this kid’s bedroom relies on having a child that is very clean and tidy so the grey and white room stays clean. This loft bed has a little grey staircase attached to a simple white frame with a white desk underneath where they can do their homework in the curving modern chair. This is a bedroom for one incredibly tidy child.
46. Modern Three Child Bedroom
This is a large bedroom but with plenty of space for three children due to its smart design. A little staircase leads up the center of the space to two little beds on either side guarded by a coppery balustrade. Another bed has been fitted underneath one bed and a little work desk under the other one all against cool blue mottled wallpaper. This is the perfect example of how much you can do by just being clever with the space you have.
47. Vividly Patterned Teen Bedroom
This cleverly designed bedroom has a large bedroom with social and study space worked together divided by a permeable white screen divider that doubles as a decorative and useful shelving system. On the left, the desk has a graphic Pokemon ball design and a round white chair where they can do their homework while on the other side there is a pink wall with a velvet L-shaped couch where they can relax when their work is done.
48. Nature-Inspired Nursery
In calming, soft tones one feature wall has been wallpapered in a pale blue paper with fluffy white clouds as the background to this beautiful nursery scene. Reclaimed wooden planks have been stained different shades with little windows cut out at the top of each one to emulate a skyline. An amazing tree has been mounted on the wall and strung with fairy lights that lean over the little white crib to complete the beautiful calming scene.
49. Indoor Playroom in Your Bedroom
In this unusual pitched ceiling, a little bed has been snuck in under the pitched ceiling with a bookcase built in next to it accompanied by a vinyl print of a soccer player. Drawers have been built under the futon bed to incorporate storage in an aesthetically pleasing way. The best part of this room is the indoor swing hanging on a thick rope from a thick timber beam with a rope ladder and netting across the ceiling. The floor is decorated with small round soccer ball carpets to continue the subtle soccer theme.
50. Adult’s WorkSpace with Kid’s Play Area
If you need to get some work done but you find yourself looking after this clever room set up lets you multi-task and spend more time with your kids. The desk faces the window where you can work and your child can play happy and occupied behind you. A thick ship’s rope hanging from some chunky teal framework with a little ladder that hangs an indoor tire swing. The tire has been painted white to fit the office’s aesthetic as a nice final touch.
Conclusion
From little babies in cribs to teenagers who need to get their homework done, this list has proven how much effect cleverly chosen furniture can have in a child’s room. They can help save you ample amounts of space with innovative new designs and some smart placement as well as making them sharing a room a much more peaceful experience. Fun play spaces inside, like the one we saw above, also guarantee that no matter the weather your kids will be happily occupied even if they are cooped up inside.
So if you want your house to look cute and to win some serious cool parents’ points why not take try jazzing up your kid’s rooms with some fun new furniture.
