Your teenager doesn’t want his or her childhood bedroom anymore? It’s normal! A teenager’s room is usually a sacred space where he or she likes to take refuge. To help them design and decorate their room in their own image – and to avoid headaches – here are 12 tips and inspirations that will help you, parents and children, build a cozy little nest for them.
12 tips for designing a teenager’s room
Here are our tips for a successful design and decoration of your teenager’s room. I will then detail how to implement them.
- Choose a decorative style;
- Define a color palette and patterns;
- Create a moodboard together;
- Opt for a neutral base and strong decorative elements;
- Buy a comfortable bed;
- Install a large dressing room;
- Have a large mirror;
- Dress up your windows to gain privacy and comfort;
- Create a space to work;
- Ensure the quality of the internet connection;
- Separate the spaces if several children occupy the room;
- Create a cozy corner to relax or read a book;
- Imagine a place to welcome girlfriends.
Designing a teenager’s room: choosing the main decorating themes
Choose a decorating style
What does your teenager prefer? Is it more industrial or Scandinavian? Does your daughter have a green thumb and want to be surrounded by greenery with a nice selection of indoor plants? Or does she prefer a relaxing, Japanese-style world? Maybe she is as fashion conscious as she is interior design conscious and wants a neo Art Deco room? Talk to her to establish the style she likes best.
What decor for a teenage girl’s room?
On the girl’s side, cocooning, romantic and bohemian chic atmospheres are in the spotlight. With girly notes like Liberty patterns, sometimes powdery, sometimes bright colors and colorful garlands, the room is feminine and much less childish.
This is a bit of a cliché and nothing prevents you and your teenager from opting for a more neutral or rock decor, depending on their tastes.
What decor for the teenage boy’s room?
On the boy’s side, music fans have a rock’n’roll, British, industrial and urban atmosphere that plunges your teen into a more masculine universe, but one in which his passions are expressed. Here again, things aren’t always square with a teenager: your 14-year-old boy may want an immaculate, uncluttered room without a poster of his favorite singer!
What colors for a teenager’s room?
Bright colors in the teenager’s room
For a teenager, white is often too common a color! To please your teenager without having your interior disfigured by a passing fancy, suggest orange, turquoise or lemon yellow colors.
If bright colors are offensive to you, but your teen insists, you can compromise by dividing the room into zones: a neutral color for the sleeping area (where the bed is) and a brighter one for the part of the room devoted to friends and leisure (the office area, for example). This solution is ideal for delimiting the space: your teenager should love it!
Trendy colors in the teenager’s room
By turning to a trendy color, your teen runs the risk of getting bored quickly. To avoid this, once again, suggest a compromise: the famous trendy color should be associated with a more muted tone. Reddish orange can be married to mouse gray, taupe enhanced by a few touches of ochre, and light brown energized by hints of eggplant.
Black in the teenager’s room
Black is a rather sad color, but it can integrated into your teenager’s room in small touches. As a frieze, on the doorframe or even in combination with white, black can give a chic look to a teenager’s room.
Create a collaborative moodboard
Sometimes it is difficult to put words to ideas. And in terms of home decor, it’s more of a struggle to define what you love versus a photo that could gather a lot of likes. So, as a family, create a shared board on Pinterest. This way, everyone will be able to save images, inspiring interiors, rooms that appeal at their own pace.
The moodboard will be created collaboratively and will allow you to project yourself in the future design of the teenager’s room. It will be a great family activity, a project where everyone invests together but also the assurance for your teenager to get a decoration he likes!
Opt for a neutral base and customize with accessories
At that age, as well as throughout life, tastes and desires change quite rapidly. So I advise you to choose a neutral base such as white walls, wooden furniture without too many embellishments and to accessorize with more embodied objects: patterned comforter cover, colored rugs…
This way, in case of weariness, you can make changes without having to do too much work.
Designing a teenager’s room: choosing the right furniture
Comfortable bed to sleep well
Restful nights should be your first objective. For that, it is advisable to choose your mattress according to its inhabitant.
- Foam mattress: support of the spine. You should choose a minimum density of 35 kg/m³ for a very comfortable daily use and an excellent life span of the product.
- Pocket spring mattress: the most advanced technology in terms of springs. It is rather adapted to couples because the mattress absorbs the movements if one of the sleepers moves a lot.
- Latex mattress: versatile and of natural origin. It is firm and comfortable. This model is for example, an excellent choice.
Concerning the bed frame, choose it equipped with a padded headboard so that the teenager who watches Netflix under the comforter is well installed!
Install a large dressing room
Forget the little dressers and the well-folded T-shirts. Makeover sessions will empty the drawers too quickly. It’s better to have a nice closet that displays your best clothes.
Furnish a teenager’s room with a large mirror
In line with the outfit, don’t forget to set up a large mirror for a fast check from head to toe before going out
Dress up your windows to gain privacy and comfort
To decorate, hide a vis-a-vis and sublimate a room of teenager, nothing better than a pair of curtains in linen. Moreover, if the budget is a little tight, there is a polyester curtain linen effect that is very successful.
Create a space to study
If it is a place to be, to sleep and grow, it is also a place to do homework. So it is essential to equip a teenager’s room with a study corner. For that it will be necessary:
- Choose a nice desk equipped with storage
- Have a lamp for good lighting
- Ensure the quality of the internet connection
Shared room: create a space for each occupant
It is important to separate spaces if several children occupy the room.
If two teenagers live in the room, you can create a color code specific to each universe so that each one is visually its own living space. You can do it with decorative objects or a two-tone wall. You can also of course place a screen in the middle of the room. You can easily divide in two and everyone will gain in intimacy.
If your teenager shares his room with his little brother or sister, I advise you to choose a loft bed for him. This way, he can have his own space, in height. But above all, if he has a tendency to be on his phone late in the evening, the light of this one will not disturb the youngest in his sleep.
Designing a teenager’s room with spaces to relax
Cozy corner hanging armchair
I love teen rooms that have a comfortable chair so they don’t [sit their lives between the desk chair and the bed. So if the square footage allows, select a nice hanging chair or soft seat together.
Designing a teenager’s room: spaces for entertaining
If the bed, think of multiplying the cushions in order to transform during the day this piece of furniture into a bench so that all the girlfriends can sit there in row of onions and discuss during hours. You can also choose floor mattresses, pretty poufs. Then ideally, a trundle bed is hidden under the main bed of your teenager.
Mistakes to avoid with a teenager’s room
Smart storage
Forget that teenagers don’t like to tidy up. They are often reluctant to put their affairs in order, so it’s best to provide clever storage solutions. A bed with a chest, for example, which allows everything to disappear underneath, or a bed with drawers, is a good idea for those who like to do things quickly.
A well-insulated teenage room
Soundproofing is also a must. Whether your teenager is a metal fan or not, the volume of decibels escaping from his room is often a source of tension. Without turning the room into a bunker, it is nevertheless easy to limit the discomfort for the occupants of adjacent rooms: installing cupboards, a dressing room or a bookcase against the wall that serves as a partition, for example, can reduce the noise and preserve the well-being of the household, and that of the neighbors.
In case of force majeure, the installation of a phonic plasterboard can be of great help for the ears of the rest of the family…
Customized lighting
When it comes to lighting, it’s best to opt for indirect lighting and multiply the light sources. Essential: a good desk lamp. For the rest of the room, a dimmer on the ceiling light and LED strips under the shelves of the dressing room or library for example, in the curtain boxes or alcoves, will allow you to create ambiences.
Last point not to forget: security. We therefore make sure that the windows are all equipped with railings and that they are placed at the right height (1.10 meters). For the rest, we let him create his personal universe and we close our eyes to a decoration not always in adequacy with our tastes of adults.
