There are a lot of cool decor items for kids rooms you can buy in stores nowadays. Cool furniture, amazing decals, funny bedding sets, colorful curtains, unusual wall hooks and a lot of other stuff is great but could be pricey. Although if you’re creative enough and have a good source inspiration, like this gallery of cool ideas, you can make them by yourself. Here are our main tips for a DIY kids room upgrades:
- Make your kids’ furniture unique. You can apply decals on it, paint its parts, wear socks on its legs, make new handles for it, or glue cardboard animals that you made with your children during your last craft project.
- Give a spark to kids’ room’s walls. You can use wall decals, paint something on these walls using stencils, or simply add some DIY wall decor.
- Create a cool playing area. For example, you can build a doll theater or cut a magazine stand of a cardboard box.
- Add some creative clothes storage. That could be a shoe display made of a pallet, creative wall hooks, or some cool and colorful sacks.
- Sew cute and fun pillowcases. Even though you can’t make the whole bedding set even cool pillows would add a creative touch to your toddler’s room.
Thanks to these awesome hacks you can save some money and make your children happy. Most of these upgrades take minimum time to make so don’t hesitate to try them!
Wooden IKEA PS 2012 dresser with a little paint and new handles is perfect addition to any kids room.
Even simple IKEA's LACK table in gloss red would be more awesome if you change one of its legs into pencil shaped green coolness.
Hacking IKEA's LACK side table with a chalkbaord tabletop is an awesome idea. Kids could draw right on the table. An upgrading a cheap wooden stool to resemble a pirate is also a cool decor idea.
Applying craft paper to wardrobe's door is a simple DIY way to spice up a plain piece of furniture.
Cutting cute animal shapes of cardboard and applying them to furniture isn't only a cool way to upgrade it. It's also an interesting craft project with your toddlers.
Even simple socks could change table' and chair' legs completely. This small furniture objects would be even more cute than they already are.
Even a kid's bed could look awesome with a DIY pallet headboard. Just some cute stuff on it.
A vintage frame with clothespins could become an awesome piece of wall decor for your kids room. A practical one too.
Here is a cool idea for a wall decal that might help your child to learn the alphabet faster.
Wall shelves shped like little houses are simple and good looking displays of things in a modern kids bedroom.
DIY cloud bookshelf ledges could display as kids books as family photos. (via howtonestforless).
A simple makeover could make an old and ugly furniture piece worthy of a cute kids room design.
Cardboard is great for craft projects with kids. In the result you can get something to upgrade their boring furniture.
A plain white side table could easily become a great addition to a girl's room if you add some pink stripes on it.
Here is how you can turn an ugly storage cabinet into a cute addition to a toddler's room decor.