5 Tips for Decorating a Space Theme Kid’s Room

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5 Tips for Decorating a Space Theme Kid’s Room

Staff Writer · Jan 21, 2011

Decorating your kid’s room in a space theme can encourage imagination and creativity in your child and can continue to function as an attractive room even as your child ages into his or her teenage years. Designing the room around the theme of space needn’t be expensive, either, especially when you do a little DIY.

1. Painting the Walls: Don’t Go Too Dark

The first step to creating a space theme in your kid’s room is to recreate the feel of space in the room with the walls. Painting the walls (if allowed by your landlord) is the first step. Black may replicate the night sky, but it’s too dark and suffocating a color for your kid’s room. Instead, choose a deep blue or even replicate a twilight sky with a bit of dark blue toward the top of the wall, light blue beneath it and a purple and reddish glow at the bottom.

2. Adding Glow-in-the-Dark Stars, Planets and Constellations: You Can’t Have Enough

The pinnacle of a space theme kid’s room is the glow-in-the dark stars, planets and constellations. You can either get glow-in-the-dark paint or purchase pre-cut wall stick-ons in space designs. The latter is a great idea if you’re not allowed to make permanent changes to your apartment wall. You can also paint or purchase stick-ons of other space designs, such as astronauts, spaceships and aliens, depending on your child’s tastes.

3. Your Child’s Bed: Only Limited By Your DIY Skills

The most ideal kid’s bed for a space theme room may be one with a bit of a spaceship look. If you can cut out and paint a headboard, you can add the top of a rocket to your kid’s bed and use white, striped bed sheets to create the rest of the spaceship look. However, if you can’t build or buy a suitable bed, just providing your child with galaxy-themed bedsheets (black or dark blue with stars, planets or spaceships) can give the bed the right look.

4. Add “Futuristic” Furnishings: Furniture with Sleek Lines

Your child’s desk, bookshelf, dresser and any other furnishings in the room should help complete the theme by giving off a futuristic look. Just look for furniture with sleek, smooth designs devoid of a lot of angles. If getting new furniture is out of the question, paint existing furniture in shades of deep blue with optional star, constellation, planet and spaceship designs.

5. Interactive Fun: Add Space Toys

While you don’t want to encourage your child to leave clutter throughout his or her room, putting just a few space-themed toys on display on a shelf or on the edge of your child’s bed can complete the theme of the room. You can store the rest of your kids’ toys in a galaxy-design toy chest.

If you included some of the younger age group space theme ideas, such as aliens and spacemen, in your kid’s room design, you can remove those elements as your child gets older. However, even young adults tend to like the stars, planets and constellations theme in their rooms, so you won’t necessarily have to entirely redo the room.

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