My son’s bedroom needed updating. He’d grown out of the old decor that was too nursery-like for my now 9-year-old, while storage options were limited. I wanted to bring my boy’s bedroom up to date in a way that was quick, easy and as budget-friendly as I could. To do this, I used a pre-cut panelling kit, peel-and-stick wallpaper and paint to give it a new look, as well as doing an IKEA BESTA hack as an affordable kid’s room storage solution.
The first thing to do was to change up his feature wall which I had previously painted when he was five. I still wanted a cityscape design, so I chose this colourful comic New York wallpaper from Rebel Walls. The wallpaper came in a peel-and-stick option, so I chose that for ease as there was no pasting required (it has a self-adhesive back, so applying it was like putting up a giant sticker!)
This blue bedspread is from the Marks & Spencer x Fired Earth collection.
I didn’t want eager little hands peeling away the wall mural; I also wanted to make sure that the wallpaper was protected from any knocks or dents, so on the bottom half of the wall I applied some MDF panelling that I painted in a vibrant brick red (the shade is Loving Orange by Yes Colours. I got the panelling as part of a pre-cut panelling kit in B&Q it was a nice and easy way to have all the strips ready to attach to the wall, but I still had to cut most pieces down to fit the space