A Room Divided - Children's Decor for Siblings

By Joann Means and Johnny Means

One way to try and build consensus among siblings with differing tastes, preferences, and desires is to see if you can get them to agree on a theme. Many times, agreement on a theme for their custom children's bedroom will be all the guidance you need to design a room they both/all will love.

And no matter if one's a boy and the other's a girl, as there are plenty of custom themes that might appeal to both. The following examples - jungle, ocean, and fairy tale/storybook custom theme bedrooms - can serve as a launching pad for you and your children's imaginations.

Jungle

Both Tarzan and Jane alike would feel perfectly at home in a jungle or rainforest setting. Starting with a custom theme bed designed like a tree-house or a forest village hut, you can then extend the theme out to the rest of the room in a number of ways:

• by painting the walls in greens, oranges, and/or browns or with an entire tropical rainforest mural,
• by furnishing the rest of the room with kid's furniture that incorporates lightweight natural wood, like bamboo,
• by using leafy printed fabrics for your window coverings, bedding, and kid's furniture upholstery,
• by installing a grassy carpet floor,
• and by filling the room with large stuffed animals and animal-shaped accessories.

Ocean

This time you can start out with a custom theme bed in the shape of a giant seafaring vessel, equipped with galley, poop deck, gangplank, and bird's nest. The color selection for the room this time would be the whole spectrum of blues, from deep oceanic blue to light sky blue, along with whites for the clouds and yellow for the sun and stars.

And an ocean theme can include underwater elements too. Just as your kids have diverse and distinct personalities, so can their ocean-themed custom kid's bedroom, with an above the sea and below the sea element. This way, animals bedecking an ocean fantasy children's bedroom might include seagulls and other birds, sea turtles, and breaching whales on the surface and dolphins, starfish, seahorses, octopi, and multi-colored tropical fish below the surface.

You can also throw in little touches like mermaid and seashells for her and sailboats and a sunken pirate ship, buried treasure and all, for him. Other creative elements both siblings will surely adore include sand castles, coral, fish netting, and fields of tall seaweed. And when your kids are old enough, you can even add a real aquarium to the décor.

Fairy Tale/Storybook

Boys and girls alike love stories, many of them the same ones, even if for different reasons. Princesses and Princes, Knights and Fair Maidens, Kings and Queens every child has envisioned themselves with glee as a player in a fabulous medieval fairy tale adventure.

And setting up a custom fantasy children's bedroom that transforms their world into a fairy tale storybook is as easy as ordering them custom castle themed bunk beds. With its tall towers and high walls, even a drawbridge and a moat if they want, the castle custom theme bed sets the stage perfectly for a medieval fairy tale fantasy kid's bedroom that'll keep your children's imaginations sparked for years.

Interior design expert Joanna Means creates shared custom fantasy girl's and boy's beds that supports and expresses each of your child's individualities while providing them a space they can feel comfortable sharing with one another. The beds at Sweet Dream Beds create a single, fantastical world, that meets both of your child's desires and allows each of their unique personalities to flourish.

The fantasy boy's and girl's beds at Sweet Dream Beds, http://www.sweetdreambed.com allow families with more than one child or frequent sleepover guests to accommodate all their needs by merely requesting either a Murphy bed or trundle bed built into the structure, making it at once both a convertible bunk bed and play space, as the need requires.

From Joanna's designs, her husband, master carpenter and craftsman Johnny Means builds custom bunk beds in the form of jungle treehouse, storybook castles, or any other custom fantasy themes you and your children can dream up. To begin generating your own ideas for custom fantasy boy's and girl's beds, browse the galleries at http://www.sweetdreambed.com

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