Decorate a Princess Room

A Princess room can be a very fun and exciting space for a baby, toddler, little girl, or even a teenager to grow up in. It's an opportunity to really bring in a very feminine feel with a lot of delicate colors and furniture pieces. Plus it allows you to create a cohesive design style because you'll have a theme to guide you through your furniture, paint, colors, decorations, and accessory choices. This means that you can put together an entire room even if you don't have a lot of money to spend or it's your first time decorating. When you decorate these kind of rooms you can really be quite whimsical. Here are a few tips on how to do that.

You will want to carefully choose your furniture for this kind of room. You could use a grown-up kind of style with a lot of intricate details for more of an elegant look to your space. Plus, these pieces will be quite durable and fit within lots of design styles. They could work within this theme more with a more grown up look later on, which makes them a very good investment.

Of course the typical color palette for this kind of room is pink with white furniture. This may seem a little bit predictable but there are a few reasons why this exists. For instance, the white furniture can easily grow with your child from when she's a toddler to when she leaves for college. You can just paint the color on the furniture and take out the accessories to get a totally new look quite inexpensively. This is perfect because some day she will want more of a grown-up room and she will probably want some new direction or theme. This is why it's important to really use your decorating budget wisely so that you don't spend money on pieces that she'll just want to get rid of later on.

You can also have a lot of fun by getting the reverse of this color palette. This could be a way to bring in color into an apartment or another space where you just can't paint the walls or you just want to have plain white walls. Instead, you could try painting the furniture pink. In this case the furniture should be low quality or make sure that you are willing to repaint it later on when she does grow up and wants something a little bit different. This is a way to get a unique color palette in this kind of space that is still traditional.

Another essential element for this kind of room is a canopy. You can even just use this over a poster bed or in place of a headboard. This can mimic a four poster bed or you can use a real four poster bed if you have one available. The canopy can come in all different kinds of styles. If you just want something very inexpensive then you could try going with a basic white sheer canopy. If you'd rather have something fun and funky then experiment with the color such as going with a blue or purple. For more of a sophisticated take you could build your own canopy out of a heavy fabric that will have more of a French feeling. You could add an elegant gold detail to it. This will give your room a little bit more of the design durability just because you could also use this same style someday when you to convert it into a guestroom and just take out the more juvenile accessories and inside the space.

An easy way to drive home your theme is with a mural. You could paint this yourself, use wall stickers or have an artist do the work for you. You can be as literal as you want but you will want to consider your child's age. This will really help determine how sophisticated the piece should be. For instance you could try going with a silhouette of a castle. If you think the princess theme is just a passing fancy then invest in wall stickers. The great thing about this is she will be able to get her favorite Disney Princess characters and you'll have to try to re-create all of those intricate details. You could also just focus in on a castle and paint the walls to look like the inside of the Castle. In this case they would look like rock. You might want to go with more of a light colored cobblestone or sandstone so that the gray colors don’t overwhelm your entire space.