It’s hard to design a teenage boy’s bedroom and get it right for them. The curtains can be drawn all day, a games console whirring around for hours, watching Bond films like No Time To Die, and a distinct lack of positive smells in the space. This is a huge generalization, of course, and it’s certainly not true for all young men. But if you’ve noticed that your own child’s room is starting to look like this, it can be nice to implement healthy additions and implements that help space come to life a little bit more.
After all, a healthy room is a happy room, and a happy room, multiplied a few times, makes a happy home. Let’s see how that can be achieved:
Add Some Greenery!
Unless your son is a budding botanist, it’s most likely that their room could use just a little greenery. This adds life and a sense of aliveness to your son’s room, even if he’s at the stage of life where sleeping in until 1 pm every day may convince you there’s no life to be found there.
Of course, it can be nice to give them a little creative freedom as far as this is concerned. A lovely wall garden or perhaps a set of cacti (which have the added benefit of being tremendously easy to look after) could be a great choice and help your child enjoy the act of caring for a living thing. This can help the room feel less enclosed, as greenery has a magical way of helping the room feel as though it’s blossoming with vitality.
Consider Installing Blinds
The goal is to allow the utmost amount of sunlight in your son’s room, without them feeling as though they have to artificially close the curtains to stop light reflecting on their television or computer monitor.
This is where blinds can come in nicely. They offer a good deal of privacy, so that can be suitable if they have a first-floor bedroom. But in the midst of those slits light can shine in, and helps illuminate the whole room. Furthermore, blinds are easy to operate and hard to damage. They can add a nice uniform aesthetic that allows your son to keep their room open, minimal, and light. That certainly beats having the curtains drawn at all hours of the day.
Simple, But Beautiful Fixtures
It’s nice to have a feature or implement or decoration that helps spruce the place up a little. Just a little fixture that helps the room seem unique can’t be found easily on the shelf of any local furnishing store.
For instance, a beautiful Cowhide Rug could be a wonderful implement to have in the room, thanks to how quality the designs are and how you’re unlikely to see them elsewhere. The same might go for a comforting armchair in the room that your son can sleep on, or an art deco piece of furniture that helps the room gain something of a 20’s styling.
In other words, to help our teenage sons realize the benefit of taking care of the room, it can be nice to implement something that they enjoy, that is totally and uniquely their decoration, functional or not. That way, the room can feel less like it may be found anywhere else and resembles the personality of your own child, even if it’s a simple, homemade piece of furnishing.
A Little Artwork
Artwork helps any room gain a little bit of character, and it can stop the walls from feeling so bare. A dash of color from an artist your child enjoys may help replace the somewhat torn sports posters pasted all over the wall, or corporate movie and video game posters they brought out of a magazine.
However, you don’t have to subvert their tastes entirely. Many online businesses craft large and impressive metal plated movie/game artwork pieces that can help light up the wall of your son’s bedroom without seeming so tacky. For those who might not get the references, these pieces can serve as tasteful elements of artwork. Of course, you don’t have to define exactly what your child hangs in their room, but it can be nice to give them a few quality options to think about.
A Light Paint Color
We should reaffirm our point that it’s important to keep a son’s bedroom as light as possible, because from the artwork they have up, the prevalence of screens, the musty atmosphere of a teenage son changing out of his gym or sports kit to play some video games – it’s good for the room to feel as light and inviting as possible.
This is why it’s good to feature a light paint color within the space. Painting the walls eggshell blue or off-white can help the room feel less oppressive than it may otherwise do, especially in the winter months.
Ventilation & Air Filtering
It’s a great idea to keep the room as ventilated as possible, for reasons we need not go into. A fan placed tactically at one side of the room (blowing fresh air from the window around the space) is just great form. You may also purchase and install an air filter that helps takes some of the odor out of the room (not necessarily emanating from your son, but just in general, including dog smells, smells from outside, and the general pollution of living in a suburban environment).
This way, the room will no doubt feel so much lighter and easier to occupy, even after your son has been playing soccer video games with his friend for several hours.
Keep It Minimal
There’s no need to overcomplicate the space. A comfortable chair, a nice desk for both working and committing to creative projects, a single bed, some good furniture like a wardrobe and chest of drawers, and whatever space is left over for their own choices can be great. Without filling the room too unnecessarily, the space can feel comforting and easy to navigate.
This, of course, is almost always aided by:
Proper Organization
Perhaps one of the best lessons we can teach our teenagers is how to organize their life and feel confident in doing so. Of course, they can hardly be expected to do this and take pride in their space if they don’t haven’t the tools to do so. This is why providing them with ample room for organization can be such a good idea. This might involve purchasing small filing systems that can sit atop their desk, giving them enough wardrobe or drawer space, a few boxes under the bed they can use, and files for their schoolwork. Some even choose to use hanging storage containers for some elevated space that works with the theme of the room.
Get your child into that habit now, and they’re sure to keep up with it as time goes on. Another benefit to this is, clearly, that their room will be so much nicer to spend time in when everything has a place, and there’s a place for everything.
We hope you can properly help to design a teenage boy’s bedroom to return to life once more with this post.
*This is a collaborative post