by William Scott
Decorating a bathroom that is used by a child presents its own unique challenges. Because young children use the bathroom so often (many times accompanied by a parent), these bathrooms are often the most used rooms in a house. Unfortunately, most parents have no idea how to decorate kids’ bathrooms. Children can be vocal about things they dislike, so parents of young kids sometimes find that their design choices are less-than-welcome. This article offer some tips and ideas that parents can use to decorate a kid’s bathroom.
Knowing The Gender Behind The Decorations
If your child is a boy, you can decorate the bathroom so that specific interests are appealed to, such as cars, bugs, cowboys, and so on. If a young girl uses the bathroom, perhaps a princess or doll theme would be appropriate. Of course, your own child’s tastes will be the most important consideration, so if your little girl likes to play with blocks and trucks, so be it. Of course, most of this consideration goes out the window when children of both genders are going to be using the bathroom. If that’s true, then the bathroom itself should be kept in a neutral theme but still appeal to the kid’s interests. Whatever the theme, you can accessorize in a variety of different ways.
What Accessories And Decorations Can Be Used?
There are many different ways to accessorize your kid’s bathroom. For example, if your child likes to play with cars, a curtain and bathmat set that has a car pattern on it is ideal. Or, if your children are fans of Disney in your house, they can have pictures of Mickey or Minnie, for example, in their bathrooms.
Even toothbrush tumblers are available in many different styles. How about a princess shaped one if your child is a girl, or a dinosaur shaped tumbler for a boy? Soap dispensers come in many styles too and can also be used to enliven children’s bathrooms with their favorite characters, animals and more.
Other things to consider that may liven up your kid’s bathroom include tissue dispensers, soap dishes, wastebaskets, or knobs. You can even decorate the drawer knobs in your kid’s bathroom if you so choose. You can choose from soccer balls, jungle animals, clown faces, or the like. It all depends on children’s preferences. Whatever a child’s interests, and decorations you use in the bathroom can accommodate them.
A Bathroom That Grows With Your Child
As your child gets older, of course the bathroom is not going to be appropriate if it’s decorated in a Mickey Mouse theme, for example. As your child’s interests change, the bathroom theme must also change. Shower curtains, bathmats, soap dispensers and tumblers can all be replaced to reflect these changes.
Take care to avoid using decorations in your child’s bathroom that may be difficult to change. For example, wallpaper that has pictures of bugs on it may delight a boy when he is only a few years old. However, he will likely outgrow this passion, leaving wallpaper that needs to be replaced.
Decorating a bathroom for your child is limited only by your own imagination - there are so many options open to you that the hardest part will be choosing which to go with. The way to put together a bathroom your child will love is to know what they are interested in and buy decorations and accessories which meet those interests. Just make sure that they are decorations which will be easy to replace as your child outgrows their interests. A little planning will long way towards designing a bathroom perfect for your child, no matter what they are into this year.