Inty AIKids Room Ideas
One real bedroom turned into a kids room, twice.
BeforeThis is unmistakably a child's room, soft, pink and busy, and it makes no pretence otherwise. Blush plaster walls, a boucle arched headboard, clashing-on-purpose pastel bedding and a little lit vanity. It is sweet and it photographs well. It also packs in a lot more furniture than the real bedroom holds, so treat it as the mood rather than the shopping list. The second version below swaps the sugar for pine: an evergreen cabin room with a checkerboard rug and a teddy bear, for the child who would rather be in a forest.
2 versions of pastel kids room
Pastel Kids Room
Blush plaster walls, a cream boucle arched headboard and bedding layered in pink, baby-blue ruffles, yellow gingham and floral sheets, with plush bunnies on top. Ruffled blue curtains, a pleated cream floor lamp and a small pink table lamp keep it soft, and string lights swag over the bed. On the right, a light-wood dresser with a hutch holds a lit round vanity mirror and cosmetics, next to a nightstand and a white rolling cart. The real bedroom has one small table; this adds a vanity, a cart and a second storage piece, so the floor fills quickly.
Evergreen Cabin
Green gingham on the bed, sheer curtains printed with a forest, a green-and-cream checkerboard rug, a white vanity, a potted pine, and a teddy bear holding the whole scheme together. This is the pastel room's outdoorsy sibling: same softness, same gingham instinct, but pointed at the woods instead of the sweet shop. It is also lighter on furniture than the pink version, which in a real child's room means floor — the resource that actually gets played on.
See your own bedroom in Pastel Kids Room style
Every render on this page is one real bedroom, redesigned. Point Inty at yours: it reads the layout from a single photo, then rebuilds it in Pastel Kids Room and 200+ other styles. Your actual room, not a showroom.
Free to try. iPhone.
Questions
- What age is this room aimed at?
- It reads young, roughly early primary age, with the plush toys, gingham and lit vanity. A pastel palette can grow up gracefully if you keep the walls and big pieces simple and let the childish parts be the cheap, swappable ones: bedding, art, plush toys. That way you repaint less often as they change.
- Are the string lights over the bed safe?
- Use battery or low-voltage LED fairy lights, which stay cool, and fix them to the wall rather than draping them into the bed. Keep any mains adaptor off the floor and away from bedding. For a young child, treat them as occasional mood lighting, not something left on overnight unattended.
- How do I stop pastel from looking overwhelming?
- Pick one pastel to dominate, here it is clearly pink, and let the others appear in small doses on cushions and art. The render gets busy because it uses blush, blue, yellow and floral all at full strength. Pull two of those back to accents and the room calms down without losing the softness.
- Can I do this in a rental?
- Most of it, yes. The pink is plaster-look here but a normal paint does the job and repaints out. The bedding, curtains, plush toys, cart and vanity all leave with you. Nothing in this look needs building work, which is part of why it suits a child's room that will change anyway.
