Share your top tips on turning your children's bedroom into an enchanted space with Valspar and you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED

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Inspired by the new PAN movie, Valspar has created the PAN Palette - a selection of colours which can bring the magic of Neverland to life in your home. Valspar are keen to hear Mumsnetters' top tips for creating a magical themed bedroom for your children.

Valspar says: "A child's bedroom is somewhere they can let their imagination run wild and decorating their space with a magical theme can help fuel their creativity further. The PAN Palette is filled with enchanting colours from the film so allow your child to be inspired by the pink of the fearless warrior, the red of the pirate that all pirates fear and the teal of the mermaid's lagoon. The best thing is that no matter how messy play time gets, Valspar paint contains a super scrub formula which allows walls to be wiped down and scrubbed clean without chipping or compromising the colour."

So, how would you create an enchanted bedroom for your child? Would you paint the night sky on the ceiling? Perhaps you would turn the walls into a chalkboard or add a touch of sparkle with paint glitter? Or maybe you would upcycle furniture to give it a magical new look? Perhaps you've already done it, in which case we'd love to see your pictures too.

Whatever the theme, Valspar would love to hear your tips!

Everyone who adds a comment to this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will receive a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

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When they were smaller I went for Neapolitan ice cream colours - banana, strawberry and coffee painted walls with net canopies over the beds and patchwork throws and bunting. Now they are a bit older, they've chosen more bold colours - one has gone for purple and the other orange. I've knitted furry cushions in tinsel wool, and got unusual fairy lights.

Got to have enough storage and a desk with good lighting for homework, also a bedside light with touch base and different settings for light intensity.

We have only just moved in so not done anything yet, but the plan is a sea side theme so we will paint the lower half of the wall sandy yellow and the top blue then fix some shelves for ornaments. As others have mentioned I do also want a reading corner which I want to make with some fishermans net and fairy lights.

How much of this we actually achieve is another story!

You can get really lovely wall stickers online, and they're easy to take off and change for a different theme as your children grow.

We had an entire room painted dark blue, including the ceiling. We then found a glow in the dark wall paper with stars, and added more stars to the ceiling.

Her current room is filled with butterflies and fairies, all of them removable for when she grows older, or so we can use the room as a guest room.

Neatral walls that can be updated with new bedding or posters as their tastes change.
A must has to be a den area. Here, it's drapes over the bed.

I love the idea of using my children's art work on the walls and lots of fairy lights to make the room a calming place to be

My ds loves Peter Pan so we cut a silhouette out of Peter Pan flying and stuck it to his lampshade. When he turns his light on the shadow is thrown onto the wall so it looks like Peter is flying through his room. Ds loves it, I sometimes move the silhouette so that the shadow is in a different part if the room to keep ds guessing.

a jungle theme with green carpert and animal sticks on the walls

My son has a space themed bedroom. He has glow in the dark stars on the ceiling, sticker transfers creating a universe on one wall, a lava lamp and space themed bedding complete with a rocket shaped scatter cushion!

Ooh, will trawl through for tips as we're moving very soon and I want to make DD's room lovely.
I'm planning a fairy door, and wondering about a floaty tent thing above the bed. Need more tips!

We always let the kids have an input input into colour schemes and themes. They love doing it.

i never decorate in current trends like frozen but go for a more fairytale theme that will last through the seasons

I'm in the process of creating a snug under my son's midsleeper - I'm going to use a single duvet cover and convert it into tent panels. Lots of cushions and a space for his books

Lighting and fabrics are what makes a place special. My Ds is only tiny at the moment, but I can't wait until he is old enough to appreciate his room and we can choose a theme together.

Working within a small space can be a challenge so you have to work with what you have. I use the walls in my daughter's room as part of the process. I bought wall art from an auction site and my friend made her some lovely canvases with fairy lights. My favourite is the London skyline with her name on it.

Fairy lights, wall stickers and lots of little people to enable imagination play.
For a while, DH's telescope was in DD's room and she loved peeping through it at the night sky.

Never land is a world of children's dreams..
The whole design should be a adventure, I'd start with painting the upper walls and ceiling blue, using test pots of greys and whites to create clouds for the day time, and for the night glow in the dark stars. Who doesn't like the night sky after all? There are some fantastic papers and wall art around recently, which I'd use to cover the walls. Choosing forest, beech views.
In choosing a bed, I'd go for a four poster wooden for the little princesses, covered with tree branches to create a fairy hide away. The branches then dressed with artifical leaves and flowers, plus fairy lights for sparkle.
For the boys a cabin bed. Up cycled to look like hooks ship...round mirrors port holes, the famous black flag for bedding.
(A black quilt can easily be turned into a pirate flag using fabric paint. Cheap and easy). Wooden anchor..
Rest of the room?
Storage.. every adventure needs treasure right? Chests for toy storage, wooden tree trunks for seatingand a table, for treasure mapping. drift wood shelves..
Vintage distressed furniture. Wardrobe draws ect...
Floor covering..boys a sea blue...? Girls a green?
How much fun would it be to create the space, never mind sleep in it.

My DD loved pink, so anything pink and princess like was good.

If it was upto me alone (minus the hubbys interference) I would go for bold pretty colours and wall stickers and sparkles. I'd let kids have a chalk or write on the wall corner to let them go wild in controlled fashion!!

fairy lights

Those peelable stick ons make an easy way of changing the room without having to repaint.

Ah, well it's a work in progress at the moment, due to our very tight budget. In fact, I've decided to blow the entire budget on a wallpaper printing company. My son's got this favourite picture in one of those Usbourne books. It's a very detailed, underwater in the Arctic scene. I want to see if I can get that blown up and printed out so that I can cover one wall entirely.
It's a tiny room, so I found a cabin bed on gumtree and bought that. I've painted it red to match a tallboy I found on gumtree earlier (I got it for free, swapping it for some scrap metal in our garden). I stuck toy fish onto each of the drawer handles.
Underneath the bed I've got a bookcase, which I shall shortly be painting red. I'm also on the search for a nice box (which I can paint red....you get the idea!). I'll be putting a piece of foam under there in the remaining space, to make a nice reading place. When I've got enough case, I'll cover it with some sort of nice, fish-themed material.
The rest of the walls in the room will be painted white, as I think it would be a little over-powering otherwise. I have seen a whole load of frames in charity shops which I reckon it would be quite speedy to paint in a range of primary colours. I'm going to use those to frame drawings that he brings back from school.
I may hang fish from the ceiling.....depending on whether that might be a bit much!

Our sons room has recently transformed from a woodland space (my choice, he was too young to protest!!) which we created on a budget with wall stickers, bargain curtains & a feature deep green wall. It's now a space themed room - with spaceman bedding (courtesy of Asda!), a giant spaceman wall sticker & planets hanging from the ceiling. We got a super-cheap star projecter from The Works which looks fab at night. I'd say wall stickers all the way - saves on decorating & can be changed as interests change!

We've used cheap voile fabric in several colours to create an 'under the sea' tented area in our girls' bedroom.

Try to get to the same height as your child!!! Seeing things through their eyes really does help when trying to create a little magical space/place. Let your child help! If they take ownership of an idea in creation then they will embrace it even more and treasure it too!