How to Decorate a Race Car Theme Bedroom

Design a Boy’s Nursery or Bedroom with Cars of All Makes and Models

Jan 24, 2009

It's time to put creativity into overdrive. Here are tips to bring the cars right into the bedroom.

Things that “go” fascinate boys of every age, and there are so many possibilities for a car motif. Decorators can highlight race cars, sleek sports cars, or powerful muscle cars for older boys. For a baby nursery, they can bring out the bright stylized autos and colorful road signs. Due to the theme’s popularity, parents are sure to have an easy time designing a room with “Zoom!”

Start by Decorating the Walls of the Race Car Theme Bedroom

There’s certainly a wide array of wallpaper and paste on mural choices to complement car themes for a nursery or bedroom, but many parents opt for the less expensive coat of paint. A shade of primary blue works well for this theme. Bright red race cars, colorful street signs, and checkered flags stand out brilliantly against a blue background.

Once the walls are covered, parents can add a colorful automobile theme wallpaper border or use craft paints to add murals of roads, bridges, race tracks, cars, traffic lights, and street signs. If parents aren’t comfortable painting street signs on the wall, they might rather cut these from poster board and apply die cut or stenciled lettering. Peel and stick wall decals are an equally attractive option.

To give the room some depth, parents can use sticky hooks to hang racing flags on the wall or suspend them from the ceiling. The flags are simple to make with scraps of material.

Posters are one of the most affordable ways to decorate the wall of a themed bedroom or nursery. Colorful prints from the movie Cars will be a great accent for younger kids’ rooms. Older kids might enjoy livening up the walls with glossy posters of their favorite cars.

Bedding, Window Treatments, and Rugs for the Race Car Theme Nursery or Bedroom

For parents who want to go all out with the roadster theme in their toddler’s bedroom, Little Tikes offers several popular car shaped beds that can zoom their little guy off to dream land each night. And of course, due to the popularity of these beds, they’re often available second hand for bargain hunters at yard sales, in local papers, or on Craig’s List.

Many bed and crib set manufacturers offer coordinated sets containing racing theme bedspreads, sheets, bumper pads, curtains and even area rugs. For parents who save money and skip the theme furniture, these quilts and spreads are an equally attractive way to tie the theme together.

For do-it-yourself decorators, curtains and spreads can be made from a host of fun automobile fabrics. Checkered curtains and throw pillows can tie in the racing theme in an easy and affordable way. If the room has a hardwood floor, a city map area rug with streets for Matchbox cars to drive along should complement the racing theme nicely.

Toys are the easiest way to accent a car theme nursery or bedroom. After all, most boys probably have enough Matchbox cars, Hot Wheels, and plastic cars of every brand to decorate at least two rooms. Parents who want to really go wild with the theme can accent the walls with shiny hubcaps scavenged from salvage yards.

Decorators can cheaply create themed furniture for a race car bedroom, using superglue or screws to fasten a circuit of toy track around the tops of the dresser, desk, or chest of drawers. Cars designed for the set can be positioned at intervals along the track. Parents should of course keep manufacturers age limits in mind when decorating with toys in their baby’s or toddler’s nursery.

Higher shelves are a great place to decorate with model cars, antique car toys, rubber cones, and storybooks. Parents can choose books whose covers depict all types of automobiles and set them covers facing outward. Older boys will enjoy informational books or car magazines. Decorating with books is an inexpensive way parents can instill a love of reading early.

Parents can personalize the room by decorating poster board street signs with their child or picking out a model car or two to build together. They might also enjoy a family trip to a car show. While there, they can snap pictures of their child next to his favorite automobile models and frame a collage. If racecars are not available, parents can use photo editing software to digitally design pictures of their children with exotic cars. Finally, parents and kids can snip car pictures from magazines and catalogs to decoupage accent pieces for the room such as pencil cans, plaques for the wall, a table and chairs, or nightstand. Touches like these make a vehicle theme room feel special and fill it with happy memories.

With these ideas parents can stop spinning their wheels. Decorators, start your engines! The car theme designing project is officially off to the races. For other decorating ideas, parents can check out articles on construction vehicle, airplane, and nautical or boat theme bedrooms.

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