Decorating a Kid's Rooms With Horses

Decorate a kid's bedroom with horse-inspired pieces.

If your child loves horses or the cowboy lifestyle, decorate his or her room with themed decor. Decorating a kid's room with a horse theme will give the space a charming, rustic style. Choose decor based on a particular type of horse, such as a black stallion, or pick a general wild west theme. Enhance the space with a natural decor palette that complements the horse-inspired style. Use stables, fields of wild horses, western films and farms as decor inspiration.

Things You'll Need

• Paint
• Paintbrush
• Wallpaper border
• Wallpaper
• Bedroom furniture
• Bedding
• Rugs
• Horse-themed decor items, such as lamps and vases

Instructions

1. Paint bedroom walls a western or farm-inspired shade. Choose a tan, barn-brown, grass-green, farmhouse-red or soft yellow shade. Hang a wallpaper border featuring horse and pony designs. As another option, hang wallpaper featuring small horse, spur, cowboy hat and boot, lasso and horseshoe patterns.Choose wood-grain or log-inspired wallpaper to give the room a horse stable vibe.

2. Choose rustic, horse-inspired furniture pieces. Choose a bed headboard resembling a piece of picket fencing. Buy a dresser, nightstand and work desk made out of logs or recycled barn wood.

3. Enhance the bed with wild west-themed bedding. Choose a comforter or handmade quilt depicting a field or desert scene, complete with running horses and cowboys. Complete the look with horseshoe, star-shaped decorative pillows. Create an enchanting feminine style with pink bedding featuring white horse designs.

4. Cover wood or tile floors with themed area rugs. Pick yellow star, silver spur and bronze horseshoe-shaped floor coverings to create a cohesive look. Enhance a substantial floor space with a large square rug featuring a horse mural design.

5. Jazz up the bedroom with horse and cowboy-themed decor items. Fill a cowboy boot-shaped vase with wildflowers and place it on a night stand. Tie back curtains or drapes with pieces of rope. Enhance a work desk with a lamp featuring a horse statue base. Delight a young child with a hand-crafted wooden rocking horse. Place toys in a wooden water trough-inspired storage box.

References

• Kids Theme Bedrooms: Horse Themed Bedroom Decorating Ideas