Do your children have themed bedrooms?

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......and if so, what are they?

A friend of mine kitted her son's room out as Buzz Lightyear and he walked in and said he didnt like Buzz anymore!

This has made me think.

Ds wanted Buzz, then Scooby Doo (!!) and now Dinosaurs! I do think he would like a Dino room as he loves them a lot. I thought I would paint the room a plain colour and have plain curtains and then put up some posters of dinos and get him a quilt cover. Any other cheap dino ideas?

What rooms do your children have? Do you regret it or do they still like them?

I also have a 6 yr old boy and a 4 yr old girl sharing. They have yellow walls (it's a bit of a dark room, so it brightens it up - also it's big so it can take colour quite well). The curtains are from when it was my/dh's room, and are a nice red/blue/gold pattern. The carpet is also from then, and is a sort of royal blue. They have excellent pine "L" shaped bunk beds, and the only "themed" bit (as opposed to colours and furniture that I like) is their duvet covers. dd has disney princess, and ds has beyblades. I hate these covers, they were expensive, and are a nasty polyester mix. I would have liked to get them something much nicer, but really struggled to find nice, cotton princess material (ds was much easier, but I wanted to give them the same, as it was for a Christmas present). Any ideas would be welcome! I did find this site which is good, but nothing was quite right for dd.

I don't like themes for similar reasons to others, (cost - hate being ripped off, too much hassle, short termism etc) but I do come from a family that expects to repaint every twenty years! (oh yes, and my mum still uses the duvet covers we were given as teenagers, twenty years ago now!)

pah anti theme isnt anti fun Its just common sense. Dss(13) and dd(19mnths) share a room which is painted blue, has loads of teddies, books, toys, fossils, high shelves for dss's stuff, low boxes for dd's stuff etc etc. Dont see the need to paint hte walls with hte latest cartoons or buy hte latest cartoon duvets thats all.
Dss's duvet is HP but they were going cheap . dd's bed stuff is a bit of this and a bit of that. So who cares. they certainly dont. Ive nothing against natural themes that build up (like us with the Vikings/water/sailing theme )

And no most most people I know dont paint the walls every 3 years or so. Every 5/8 if lucky. Way to much like hard work IMO.

i hated themed rooms with all things matching, bin, duvet, curtains, furniture, lampshade etc. I did once decorate ds's bedroom in an underwater theme though but only went as far as painting the top and bottom of the walls a different colour with a wavy line between them and a porthole on the wall. He already had a cabin bed and so could pretend it was his boat.

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Is she pleased? My two like to sleep under my old duvets when they stay with my parents. The duvets are very soft, but rather patched! But then my mother also "sides-to-middles" her sheets. Wonder how many people even know what that means!

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A few months ago after the comment "but mum, I like pink walls"...from my ds - I decided it was time to change the PEACH walls (didn't know what variety I was getting)!

Off we went to B&Q to colourmatch Thomas the Tank Engine and Percy - (dark turquoise and lime green). The paint is still in their tins, his new bed with a stars canopy from Ikea is still in the garage flatpacked...and now he is into POKEMON - in a very big way. But i'm not gonna colour match Pikachu yellow, so one day I will get round to painting the Thomas colours.

Everything else matches - boxes on wheels, draws, duvet colours, curtains etc to the blue/green so I really ought to get on with it. Anyone out there wanna give me a hand?

sides to middles is when you cut the sheet down the middle and sew it together with the sides as the middle (iyswim) because the middles wear out when the sides are still good...
only works for non-fitted sheets tho!
BTW in answer to thread qu, no themes here, mainly because I wanted the rooms' decor to last longer than a few yrs.
DS1's room is in Mama's and Papas wallpaper (never agin!) and matching curtains that I made but that's as far as it goes.
Personally not keen on cartoon stuff, but each to their own. Find that non-cartoon bedding lasts better as well (ie better quality cotton stuff from John Lewis etc).
However if DD had her own room (she shares with ds2) I know she would demand the full-on pink wall treatment...and I'd probably do it as well!!

nooka - your children's room sounds very much like ours!

orinoco -dd also has an ancient "snatch the dog" duvet cover, she adores it

No, no themes here.

Have made 2 "washing lines" from string and hang the childrens artistic efforts from them. That's about it.

Walls in dire need of repainting since ds2 decorated them with 2 tubes of drapolene 18 months ago.

Collision when my DS was a baby he had winnie the pooh and piglet, when he was 3 and we moved he had Buzz Light year and Harry Potter on opposite walls. When we moved last year i decorated his room in the hulk...... no posters mind I just spent 3 weeks sketching, drawing painting and adding finishing touches to the room.

My services for childrens bedrooms are up for offer if you live in London and I dont charge much either.

www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=8312079&uid=4005026&members=1

this is a picture of my sons wall. you can't see all the room in this pic

Twiglett, Just seen this as we have been moving from Italy to the UK.

saw that your ds has a dino room. Where did you get the things for the wall from and his quilt?

collision - the dinosaurs are from Friezeframe . Our train mad ds has the railway one - sorry haven't got any pics online at the moment though.