Kids Bedrooms - How to create a storybook bedroom

Set your child’s imagination free and bring their favourite tales to life with this fantastic storybook-themed bedroom.

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Many kids have complex imaginations, and love to jump into a world of fantasy. This room has magic at its core, and will allow your child to go on adventures with all their favourite storybook characters, away from the pressures of adult life.

Difficulty: 2 out of 5

Time: weekend

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Feed your child’s imagination and bring their favourite tales to life by transforming their space into a fairytale world.

Set the scene by transforming their walls into cloud-studded skies, add a teepee hideaway and plenty of scatter cushions, and they’ll have their very own storybook corner. Whether they like to read alone or together, this bedroom theme will encourage them to start the next chapter of their literary adventures.

Turning their walls from a blank page to a blue sky is easy – read on for our step-by-step guide:

1) Paint your wall in Blue Babe.

2) Using chalk, roughly mark out your cloud shapes.

3) Fill your cloud outlines in roughly with Jasmine White using an emulsion brush – and don’t worry about neat edges.

4) Use two big elastic bands to make two paint stippling pads.

5) Dip one sponge pad in a little Jasmine White and soften the edges of the clouds.

6) Dip the other sponge tin a little Polished Pebble or Goose Down to add a bit of cloudy shadow and depth to finish off your clouds.

You will need:

Blue Babe – enough to paint the whole room
2.5 litre Jasmine White paint tin
Tester pots of Goose Down
Tester pots of Polished Pebble
1 x Dulux 2” brush
1 x Dulux 3” brush
3 x car sponges with dense foam
2 x large elastic bands
Coloured chalk (we recommend children’s coloured chalks, as they stain less)
Dust sheets
Small stepladder – preferably one that has a grab handle and one that will allow to reach the ceiling

Accessories

Tee pee, Molly Meg
Could mats, Le Redoute
Cloud cushion, Ikea
Bean bag, Molly Meg
Pink linen cushion, H&M Home
Green stripe pillow case, H&M Home
Small pink pillow case, Merci
Pink checked cushion, Ikea
White throw, Ikea
Unicorn slippers, John Lewis
Wooden crates, Ikea
Unicorn puppet, Ikea
Unicorn toy, Amazon
Large piggy bank, Stylist's own
Books, Stylist's own
Toy dog, Stylist's own
Toy rabbit, Stylist's own
Toy pony, Stylist's own
Table lamp, Habitat
Fake birds, Rocket St George
Fairy lights, Ikea

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