Kids Bedrooms - How to create a storybook bedroom

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Step-by-step guide

Feed your child’s imagination and bring their favourite tales to life by transforming their space into a fairytale world.

Set the scene by transforming their walls into cloud-studded skies, add a teepee hideaway and plenty of scatter cushions, and they’ll have their very own storybook corner. Whether they like to read alone or together, this bedroom theme will encourage them to start the next chapter of their literary adventures.

Turning their walls from a blank page to a blue sky is easy – read on for our step-by-step guide:

1) Paint your wall in Blue Babe.

2) Using chalk, roughly mark out your cloud shapes.

3) Fill your cloud outlines in roughly with Jasmine White using an emulsion brush – and don’t worry about neat edges.

• Blue Babe – enough to paint the whole room
• 2.5 litre Jasmine White paint tin
• Tester pots of Goose Down
• Tester pots of Polished Pebble
• 1 x Dulux 2” brush
• 1 x Dulux 3” brush
• 3 x car sponges with dense foam
• 2 x large elastic bands
• Coloured chalk (we recommend children’s coloured chalks, as they stain less)
• Dust sheets
• Small stepladder – preferably one that has a grab handle and one that will allow to reach the ceiling

Accessories

1. Tee pee, Molly Meg
2. Could mats, Le Redoute
3. Cloud cushion, Ikea
4. Bean bag, Molly Meg
5. Pink linen cushion, H&M Home
6. Green stripe pillow case, H&M Home
7. Small pink pillow case, Merci
8. Pink checked cushion, Ikea
9. White throw, Ikea
10. Unicorn slippers, John Lewis
11. Wooden crates, Ikea
12. Unicorn puppet, Ikea
13. Unicorn toy, Amazon
14. Large piggy bank, Stylist's own
15. Books, Stylist's own
16. Toy dog, Stylist's own
17. Toy rabbit, Stylist's own
18. Toy pony, Stylist's own
19. Table lamp, Habitat
20. Fake birds, Rocket St George
21. Fairy lights, Ikea

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