Boy Room Decorating Ideas

Q: I am looking to makeover my son’s bedroom with a race car, train, or plane focus. Do you have any decorating ideas for any of these boy room themes?

It sure sounds like your son has a lot of interests and is really going places. Following are some fun boy room decorating ideas you can use for each of the transportation themes you mentioned.

Race cars

For the child who loves car racing consider a race car theme complete with black and white checked flags crossed at the top of a roller shade and pendant flags affixed to your son’s bedposts. Continue the boy room theme by stencilling a black and white checkerboard design on the front of his dresser and on any other items of furniture like a desk or nightstand.

What about an area rug with a car track design or decorating the walls with a racing car border, reusable wall stickers or a mural? Add some racing posters or framed calendar photos and put your son’s car collection on display. And if your son’s room also has a child size table set consider painting an oval track on top with a racing stripe down the center of each chair.

Trains

For a train inspired theme consider stencilling the walls with a saying like “Welcome aboard Jake’s Railway (insert your own child’s name). If you’re artistic try your hand at painting a mural that features things like a railroad crossing sign and flashing red lights, a train station, and a dark tunnel with a bright train light. The station itself doesn’t have to be detailed but it should include a sign that uses part of your child’s last name like ‘McNerneyville’.

Or you could use a ready-made mural or a wall border that features trains. Another good boy room decorating idea is to create an around the room shelf about a foot down from the ceiling and set up a model train that can be controlled by a light switch.

Other decorative boy room decorating touches include using train lamps, drawer pulls and an area rug. To bring this boy room together consider using a train stencil on the front of your son’s dresser drawers and on his headboard and nightstand.

Airplanes

Chances are a boy who loves airplanes would also love to have an airplane themed room. Boy room decorating ideas for this theme include hanging toy airplanes from your child’s ceiling at different heights (attach with fishing line and a screw eye) and creating finials on your child’s bed posts or on drawer pulls by affixing miniature toy planes (with epoxy).

How about hanging posters of antique planes on the wall or painting the top of your son’s dresser like a runway? To really personalize the room, use stencils or pre-cut wooden letters to spell out “Pilot Chris” (or whatever your child’s name is).