20 Kids’ Bedrooms That Pump Up the Fun
Fanciful bedrooms can feed kids’ imaginations and encourage their dreams of blasting into space, sailing the high seas, summiting peaks and embarking on other big adventures. Since kids’ interests evolve quickly, homeowners and designers might add whimsy with easy-to-change paint, bedding and accessories. When the budget allows (and often when furnishing vacation rentals), others opt to go all-in with architectural elements and custom furnishings. Whatever your approach, you can find oodles of inspiration in these standout themed kids’ bedrooms uploaded to the Houzz photo feed.
1. Lunar Landing
This Austin, Texas, bedroom by Ryan Street Architects is truly out of this world, featuring a Sputnik-style chandelier, a lunar rover bunk bed and a mural depicting a view of Earth and space from the surface of the moon.
2. Bus Stop
A pair of cherry red Volkswagen buses — each of which has a bed inside and on top — makes this Montana bunkroom by On Site Management totally groovy.
3. Catskills Camp
AHG Interiors equipped this New York bedroom with two little rustic cabin beds and a toy campfire between. A sparkling faux birch tree and rustic wooden beams add to the forest feel. (Just watch out for the dinosaur and pig crashing the campsite!)
4. Enchanted Cottage
This pink bedroom in Chicago by Leah Bolger Design is as sweet as can be, with arches, balusters and hydrangea-filled flower pots built into its lofted space. Below is a daybed and a homework area that opens to a secret bunny hutch under the stairs (not shown).
5. Magic Mountain
In Seattle, Board & Vellum created an adventurous kids’ zone with a space-theme bedroom and treehouse-like playroom connected by a realistic-looking rock-climbing wall.
6. Plying the Waves
Utah may be landlocked, but that won’t stop the occupants of this ship-shape bunkroom by Maven Design from peeking through portholes and navigating the open seas using the stars above.
7. On the Move
A kids’ bedroom in Los Altos Hills, California, by DiVittorio Architecture & Design and JTM Interiors features train engine and bulldozer beds, a railroad-crossing sign for a table lamp base and a race car pendant lamp to complete the transportation theme.
8. Safari Park
Where on Earth will you find a snake, a monkey, an elephant and a bear sharing a habitat? In this neutral-toned Dallas bedroom by Urbanology Designs. Young explorers can snooze in a hammock, climb a jungle gym and interact with the wildlife relatively risk-free.
9. Up a Tree
For this nature-loving little boy’s bedroom in the San Francisco Bay Area, TRG Architecture + Interior Design installed a 10-foot cedar tree outfitted with a custom hammock. You can’t see it, but there’s a trapdoor in the closet.
10. Race Track
Crystal Blackshaw Interiors created the ultimate street-racing-style bedroom in the Chicago area with a red race car, a toolbox cabinet, rock ’n’ roll album cover art and graffitied walls. And it’s not just the kids who got the goods — the home’s living room also was given the graffiti treatment.
11. Castle in the Clouds
The vaulted ceiling in a Lake Michigan bunkroom designed by Devon Grace Interiors provided the perfect space for a custom-built castle accessible from the top bunks. The room already has 14(!) beds, but the castle is definitely the queen’s sleeping spot.
12. Boomtown Cabin
Momoko Morton brought the railroad right to a Victorian home in Denver for this kids’ bedroom. A little miner’s cabin, outfitted with railroad artwork and a gas lamp, fits the setting, and it would make a fun hiker’s hut or a lookout tower for spotting forest fires too.
13. Dreamtown Express
These twin bunk beds in a Sagaponack, New York, bedroom by Chango & Co. resemble berths in a sleek sleeping car or sailboat. All aboard!
14. Outer Space
A Washington, D.C.-area bedroom by grOH! Playrooms packs in an astronomical amount of fun: a ceiling covered in constellations, a moon-rock wall, a slide, a climbing rope and, in an adjacent room, a rocket ship reading nook.
15. In the Canopy
Lemurs leap from tree limb to tree limb across the wallpaper of this Canadian bedroom by West of Main Design. Meanwhile, the junior primatologist can rest in the treehouse, safe from the hungry croc below.
16. Astronomical Observatory
This little British Columbia, Canada, bedroom by Area3 Design Studio keeps things simple — and simply darling — for a budding astronomer with a wooden tent bed, a nest swing, starry wallpaper and a telescope at the ready.
17. Digital World
CG&S Design-Build created this Minecraft-inspired bedroom in Austin, Texas, reimagining the game’s signature green terra-cotta blocks as a graphic wall mural. That circular slide has got to be a blast IRL too.
18. Eel’s Nest
Super-skinny lots in urban Japan are often called eel’s nests. This custom loft, which is in a Japanese architecture-inspired San Francisco house by SF Design Build and Noz Design, nods to the homes built on those lots with its clean vertical lines, smart use of space and little windows. This version shows how the design can change as a child ages.
19. Slope-Side Style
In Big Sky (and big ski) country, this bunkroom by North Fork Builders of Montana looks blanketed in snow, with white popcorn curtains and other white textiles. A refurbished bright red ski lift chair emphasizes the theme. Note the peak-shape nook in the nearest bunk.
20. Playing Ball
Some kids eat, sleep and breathe sports. Texas’ Simmons Estate Homes created this bedroom for one such baseball fan. The bed frame made with bats is a home run.