Designing a Bathroom That Your Child Will Love

by: WilliamScott
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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.

Boy or Girl? It Can Make a Difference When You Decorate

A boy's bathroom can be decorated to appeal to his interest in specific passions such as cars, cowboys, bugs, etc. A bathroom used by a young girl can be decorated to appeal to other passions that a boy may not be interested in such as dolls or princesses. Decorating a bathroom begins with the gender of the child (or children) who will use the bathroom. If both a girl and a boy are going to use the same bathroom, it's important to keep a neutral theme in the bathroom while catering to their interests simultaneously. For every need or theme, there are plenty of accessories that you can use.

Accessories and Decorations to Use

There are a large number of different accessories which you can use to decorate a child's bathroom. If your child is into cars, you can get a bathmat and shower curtain with cars on them - this will generally be available as a set. If your child is a Disney fan, then you can get a bathroom rug with their favorite Disney characters.

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 that can be used to decoration a child's bathroom includes knobs, waste baskets, tissue dispenser and soap dishes. For example, each knob on every cabinet or drawer in your kid's bathroom can also be decorated. You can buy knobs that look like clown faces, jungle animals, or soccer balls, depending upon what your children prefer. Similar interests can be reflected in other decorations.

A Bathroom That Grows With Your Child

As your children get older, the things that inspire or entertain them changes. Accessories and decorations can be easily replaced as your child's passions change. Bathmats, shower curtains, tumblers, soap dispensers and knobs can be changed to reflect a child's new interests.

If possible, avoid using decorations in your kid's bathroom that might be difficult or impossible to change. For example, wallpaper with images of Cinderella on it may be very age-appropriate when a girl is three, but will be entirely inappropriate during adolescence, which means that the wallpaper will need 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.

About the Author

William Scott contributes bathroom decor advice to http://BathroomDecorTips.com, a website committed to providing useful information on bathroom rugs.  

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