Room Décor Ideas for Kids Who Love Space – with Photowall

We have moved houses again! It simply sounds insane when I tell someone that in our last three years in London we have lived in three different houses. And no, we didn’t move for the most common reasons that people move for, like school change for kids or workplace change for parents. We just moved because we had some unforeseen circumstances to deal with, like landlord requesting her house back. After all, her son needs a place to stay!

For me, a house moving process commences from the moment I start looking at the online listing of houses available for rent and concludes when I cook the first hot meal in the kitchen of the house that we had just shifted in. Between these two ends, there is often a period of immense turbulence that can last for as long as 2 months. With three moves in three years, I must say that I’ve become quite comfortable with the entire process and the frenzy it brings along. So much so, moving houses doesn’t faze me at all.

What dampens my spirits a bit is the first month in the new house. That’s the time when even though I’ve started living in the house, the house hasn’t become my home yet. I get quite homesick – I wander around the house comparing it to our home in Bangalore and how perfect it was and why the heck am I not living in my own amazing home in Bangalore but instead at a rented house here in London – it sort of becomes an existential crisis for me.

So after every house move, when I am in a mental dump like that, I take out my craft box and start decorating the house. I’ve realised that home décor is the easiest way to put your mark on a rented house and start enjoying the house as if it is your home.

While I was busy in unpacking and thinking of a variety of décor ideas for our newly rented house, Photowall, a Swedish wall-art company approached me regarding a collaboration opportunity. As I went through their website, their massive collections of canvas prints and the quality impressed me. Most of the prints were distinctive and carried a personality. I also found out that the printing ink Photowall used for their wallpapers is biodegradable and recycling and agroforestry are an important part of the company’s ethos. You know things like these make me go weak at the knees and hence I immediately agreed for this collaboration.

Room Décor Ideas for Kids Who Love Space

For my Photowall project, I picked up Miss B’s room because I always organize her room first because moving to the rest of the house. I made a list of things that I would like to do considering Miss B’s requirements and my limitations with space and time.

It took me a couple of weeks but my hard work paid off when Miss B gave a nod of approval to the whole project. The mum in me couldn’t be happier!

Room Décor Ideas for Kids – Starting with a Feature Wall, from Photowall

I love a feature wall and the way it adds energy to a room and binds everything together. I believe that once the feature wall is sorted, everything else in the room falls into place effortlessly.

Photowall gave me the option of choosing a canvas print for my liking for this collaboration. As it was Miss B’s room, I asked her to decide which canvas she would like to go on the wall. Photowall had many good options and hence Miss B remained indecisive for days. She finally chose the Deep-Space Nebula canvas print because like she is obsessed with space like every 9-year-old is.

Shipping was prompt and the canvas print arrived like this –

I am sort of a ninja at assembling flat-packed things and assembling the canvas print was as easy as it could be.

Once on the wall, the canvas print looked amazing; the pictured nebula was surreal and overwhelming – just how Miss B wanted it!

Room Décor Ideas for Kids – Accessorizing the Feature Wall with Decals

The Deep-Space Nebula by Photowall was rocking on the wall but I felt like the wall was missing something. Searching for inspirations, I realized that decals might just do the trick.

I drew some space-related objects, copied and coloured the design on ivory sheets and cut them out.

I stuck the cutouts around the nebula using blue tac.

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Room Décor Ideas for Kids – String Lights Décor for Adding Dreaminess

Living in London poses the challenge of living in a limited space. The size of the average houses here is much smaller than both India and the USA. The kids’ bedroom is often the most challenging one because its size is usually half of the master bedroom.

So to make sure that we make the optimum use of kids’ bedroom, we decided that Miss B should have a loft bed. A loft bed is propped higher thus allowing extra floor space for the child. The area under the bed becomes a sort of a mini room in itself.

Miss B wanted to convert this extra space into a lounge – a place where she reads and plays with her Lego. I wanted to give a feeling of dreaminess to this area and so I did what YouTubers do – hang string lights on the wall.

Room Décor Ideas for Kids – Star Wars Light Switch

This light switch idea is as simple as an idea can get – it required no tools and no skill. And yet, there’s a grin on Miss B’s face every time she uses this switch.

I used permanent marker here because it does not bleed with water and is easy to rub off with nail paint remover. I drew lightsabers on each end and tried to use a font close to the official Star Wars font.

Room Décor Ideas for Kids – Felt Embroidery Hoop Décor

There was a time when I was crazy about making felt embroidery hoop décor, I must have made half a dozen of such in different designs.

I made a unicorn one for Miss B which she wasn’t much impressed with because she isn’t into unicorns at all. But she did appreciate my effort and hence has allowed me to let it hang on her room’s door.