Looking for ideas to create a space your kids will love? A child’s room is the perfect place to explore imaginative ideas, from an ark-shaped bookshelf to butterfly wallpaper to neon bed frames. Go wacky with polka dots or try a more classic pastel aesthetic—whatever the theme, this is one room that is sure to stand out. So step away from the pale pink and baby blue and get ready to design a room that’s as unique as your kids are (and as tidy as you’d like them to be). Here are 54 examples from the AD archives to provide inspiration for your child’s next bedroom update.

A Cheery Girl's Bedroom

In the daughter’s room of a Bahamian home decorated by Miles Redd, the floral Paule Marrot wallpaper is by Brunschwig & Fils.

A Sophisticated Kid's Room

Artemide wall lamps flank a print by Sam Francis in the son’s room of a Manhattan apartment by Vicente Wolf; the headboard is sheathed in a VW Home wool, the bed linens are by Restoration Hardware, and the side table at right is by Room & Board.

A Playful Boy's Room

In a Manhattan apartment by Annabelle Selldorf and and D’Apostrophe Design , Tristan, the homeowners’ son, is joined in his room by his sister, Emma, and their dog, Cookie; the bed is by De La Espada, and the drawing table is by Ducduc.

A Polished Kid's Room

At decorator Sara Story’s Texas home, de Gournay wallpaper lines daughter Dagny’s room; the vintage chair is covered in a Josef Frank linen from Svenskt Tenn.

A Striped and Serene Space

Stripes of Benjamin Moore white and blue paints enliven a daughter’s bedroom in a California home decorated by Miles Redd; the curtains are trimmed with a Samuel & Sons border, and an Alan Campbell pattern covers the chairs, ottoman, and bench.

A Fantastical Playspace

Design studio Hammer and Spear collaborated with PSS Design Cult to devise an arklike storage unit for the son’s room in a Los Angeles home ; the crib is by RH Baby & Child

A Rustic Kid's Room

In the daughter’s room of a home by Thom Filicia in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, a Cavern wallpaper adds a woodsy note; the vintage beds are painted in a Benjamin Moore green, the sconces are by the Urban Electric Co., and the carpet is a Matthew Williamson design for the Rug Company.

A Space That's Pretty in Pink

In Kourtney Kardashian’s Martyn Lawrence Bullard–designed California home , a neon light installation is mounted above daughter Penelope’s bed, which is topped with an Hermès throw.

A Whimsical Nursery

In the same home , Kardashian’s son Reign’s room features ikat curtains and a shag carpet.

Polished Twin Beds

Images by Naomi Watts’s brother, photographer Ben Watts, are displayed above RH Baby & Child beds in the boys’ room of her Manhattan apartment , which was decorated by Ashe + Leandro.

Fun Built-In Beds

In accessories designer Fiona Kotur’s Hong Kong home , the built-in beds, cabinetry, and desks in sons George (left) and Wyatt’s room were made by local artisans; the ceiling light is by Pottery Barn Kids.

A Mod Boy's Bedroom

In the same home , an Eero Aarnio Bubble chair hangs in son Rex’s room; the David Hicks hexagon wallpaper is by Cole & Son

A Bedroom Made for Slumber Parties

In publishing-world powerhouses Pilar Guzmán and Chris Mitchell’s Hamptons weekend home , the boys’ room is outfitted with Muji beds, an RH ceiling light, and Ralph Lauren Home sconces.

A Kid's Room With Bold Pattern

A Quadrille toile fabric and wallpaper envelop one of the children’s rooms in a Southampton, New York, beach house decorated by David Netto. The furnishings include a Room & Board bunk bed, vintage Poul Kjærholm armchairs from Dansk Møbelkunst Gallery, and a Stark carpet; the portrait is of one of the homeowners’ grandfathers.

A Modern and Colorful Bedroom

Shelton, Mindel & Associates created this cheerful children’s room for the homeowners’ grandchildren; the yellow racing stripes and pair of matching CB2 stools provide an unexpected pop of color. (November 2012)

A Dreamy Canopy Bed

Interior designer Peter Dunham created a whimsical children’s room in the Beverly Hills, California, home of film producer Steve Tisch. The hand-carved canopy bed is from Hollywood at Home, Dunham’s Los Angeles shop, and the headboard is upholstered in a vintage suzani. (June 2011)

A Bedroom for a Sports Fan

Talent agent Kevin Huvane enlisted designer Michael S. Smith and Ferguson & Shamamian Architects to update his historic Beverly Hills, California, residence . His teenage son Declan’s room, which includes a colorful collection of sports paraphernalia, has a refined yet laid-back look. (July 2012)

Colorful Bunk Beds

The bunk room in a Hamptons, New York, guesthouse by architects Leroy Street Studio and designer Thad Hayes provides plenty of space for visiting family and friends. The color-blocked Nurseryworks bunk beds pack a geometric punch in the otherwise serene space. (August 2011)

A Boho Bedroom

At Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Stephen Samuelson –designed home in Calabasas, California , daughter Willow’s room is decorated in a fashion-forward, bohemian style. Plush pillows decorate the iron four-poster, which is draped with a canopy of patterned silk. (September 2011)

A Nautical Bedroom

At the Nantucket, Massachusetts, retreat of former Chanel president Arie L. Kopelman and his wife, Coco, a children’s room, which includes a Charles Manghis weather vane and a custom-made trundle bed, is ready to welcome visiting grandchildren. (July 2012)

A Child's Bedroom With Midcentury Style

The Steinman House, built in 1956 in Malibu, California, by architects Craig Ellwood and Jerrold Lomax, was restored by designer Michael Boyd for a young family. The children’s room features a midcentury masterpiece of its own—a George Nelson Marshmallow sofa by Herman Miller, which is grouped with a cowhide rug and a trio of Jasper Morrison cork stools. (June 2011)

A Playhouse Bed

For a family home in Hawaii , architecture firm Ike Kligerman Barkley and designers Ron Wilson and Joe Guidera created the ultimate girl’s room. The space features a playhouse-like structure that contains bunk beds and a staircase with storage drawers built into the steps. (August 2007)

A Blue Boy's Room

Musician Sir Elton John and film producer David Furnish turned to designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard to make their Beverly Hills home a family-friendly haven. Their son Zachary’s room features bold stripes in Benjamin Moore blues, Knoll’s Saarinen side table from Design Within Reach, and a sputnik-like vintage chrome chandelier; above the custom-made daybed is an artwork by Peter Beard. (March 2013)

An Elegant Girl's Bedroom

In a Manhattan apartment decorated by David Kleinberg , the clients’ Siamese cat, Emma, poses on the daughter’s bed, which is dressed with embroidered bedding by Leontine Linens. A Quadrille toile de Jouy enlivens the walls and duvet. (June 2011)

A Cozy Nook

Built by architecture firm McAlpine Tankersley , the Napa Valley, California, residence of Rela and Don Gleason includes a children’s guest room that features a chalet-style box bed nicknamed the Heidi Nook—a popular spot among the couple’s visiting grandchildren. (November 2011)

A Nature-Inspired Space

On Washington state’s Mercer Island, architect Eric Cobb fashioned a modernist glass-and-concrete residence for an entrepreneur and his two daughters. In one of the girls’ rooms, which features a desk chair by Arper and a rug by Pottery Barn, walls painted in Benjamin Moore’s Capri Seas recall the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest. (June 2011)

A Grand Bed

In Darcy Miller Nussbaum’s home , David Mann placed an Anthropologie lit à la polonaise fit for a princess in the center of a daughter’s room. (February 2012)

A Bedroom with Bold Color and Geometric Accents

For an apartment overlooking New York’s Central Park reservoir, Shelton, Mindel & Associates chose refined furnishings in subdued hues throughout, except in the children’s rooms. In one of the spaces, a vibrant painted detail in the style of Josef Albers and a curvaceous Verner Panton chair inform the colors and shapes on the daybed and throw pillows. (July 2005)

A Spot for Sleeping and Reading

Classic architecture meets cutting-edge art in a family’s London townhouse updated by designer Francis Sultana and architect Thomas Croft . The children’s freestanding bed-and-library unit provided a creative solution to historic-preservation regulations restricting the construction of new walls. (February 2013)

A Pretty Peach Bedroom

Tasked with reimagining a historic plantation house in the West Indies, designer Emma Burns of the firm Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler used a soft palette in the children’s room. A peach Manuel Canovas fabric adds subtle interest to a pair of canopy beds. (August 2006)

A Multi-Functional Space

In a 19th-century Manhattan townhouse , Leroy Street Studio carved out space on the attic level for a multifunctional boys’ room. Decorator Christine Markatos Lowe furnished the room with bunk beds and desks by Nurseryworks and a custom-made sectional sofa by Vladimir Kagan. (December 2012)

Pink From Top to Bottom

Adman Donny Deutsch tapped Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper to create a striking New York townhouse that would highlight his impressive art collection. In a daughter’s room, however, the gallery-like environment was amended to favor all things pink—including fabrics from Osborne & Little and Designers Guild, a side chair from Profiles, and a Stark carpet. (October 2011)

A Hand-Painted Mural

For Marc Jacobs president Robert Duffy’s Manhattan townhouse , decorator Richard McGeehan conjured a fanciful retreat for the homeowner’s daughter. A trompe l’oeil tented ceiling by artist Matt Austin, an elaborate sleigh bed, and a menagerie of stuffed comrades outfit the space. (October 2012)

Built-in Storage

Publishing executive Robert E. Abrams and his wife, Cynthia Vance, called on Joel Barkley of Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects to craft a sophisticated, barn-inspired retreat in upstate New York. In the bedroom of the couple’s young son, a tapestry version of Robert Indiana’s Love is the focal point of a custom-made ash bed/storage unit. (June 2012)

A Glam Girl's Room

In a Bel Air, California, mansion designed by Kelly Wearstler , a girl’s bedroom gets a dose of glamour with a graphic wall covering by Porter Teleo, a Paul Evans four-poster clad in mirror, and a custom-made carpet by the Rug Company. (January 2013)

A Charming Playroom

The children’s playroom in architect Benedikt Bolza’s Italian farmhouse features a spiral wood staircase and a large dollhouse.

Rustic Bunk Beds

A custom-made bunk bed by A Great Find stands in a children’s guest room of decorator Pauline Pitt’s Aspen, Colorado, chalet .

A Stylish Playspace

Children’s chairs by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen surround a table in the playroom of decorator Laura Santos’s Manhattan townhouse . The sofa is by Ligne Roset, the teak cabinetry is by Poliform , and the curtains and pillows are made of a Clarence House fabric.

A Fun and Tropical Playroom

A ceiling light created by interior designer Celerie Kemble oversees the children’s playroom in her Dominican Republic home . The furniture is upholstered in Dutch-wax prints from AKN Fabrics, and the orange rug is from Nomadic Trading Co.

Colorful Art and Collections

A vestibule in the children’s wing of the Los Angeles home of design duo Alexandra von Furstenberg and Dax Miller features a Ron Arad rocking chair and Von Furstenberg’s acrylic console.

Whimsical Canopy Beds

Wallpaper by Marthe Armitage animates the ceiling of one of the children’s rooms in this eclectic Houston mansion decorated by Miles Redd. A William Yeoward for Designers Guild pattern stripes the walls, and a Lee Jofa floral was used for the curtains; above the bespoke Fine Arts Furniture beds are framed reproductions of vintage Vogue covers from the Condé Nast Collection and Oscar de la Renta Home for Century Furniture pagoda canopies.

A Graphic Red-and-White Bedroom

An Andy Warhol Mickey Mouse print hangs in one of the children’s rooms of Tommy Hilfiger’s vibrant Miami home designed by Martyn Lawrence Bullard. The walls are striped with a Benjamin Moore red, and the bed is upholstered in a Manuel Canovas fabric; the adjoining bath has a scratch-and-sniff banana wall covering by Flavor Paper.

An Eclectic Nursery

The nursery in designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent’s Manhattan home is clad in wallpaper by Apparatus and Zak + Fox; the crib is by RH Baby & Child, and the black-and-white rug is by Caitlin Wilson.

A Nursery With Bright Colors

Ellen Pompeo’s Los Angeles nursery is furnished with feather headdresses from Nickey Kehoe, a Pierre Jeanneret child’s chair from JF Chen, and a carpet from the Rug Company. The actress collaborated with decorator Martyn Lawrence Bullard to design the eclectic space.

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A Comfy Reading Nook

Wall coverings by Hinson & Co. (on the ceiling) and Phillip Jeffries (on the walls) animate a child’s room in Brooklyn brownstone designed by Nick Olsen; the picture light and swing-arm sconce are both from Circa Lighting.

A Preppy Shared Bedroom

In the same home, two of the family’s children share a room lined with a Sandberg wallpaper from Stark; the Fine Arts Furniture trundle beds are dressed with RH bedding.

Floral Accents

A children’s room springs to life with a vivid Osborne & Little wallpaper in the New York home of contractor Nicholas S.G. Stern and his wife, Courtney, an interior designer.

A Contemporary Bunk Room

The children’s bunk room at the Texas Hill Country home of designer Sara Story is accented by a Claremont-fabric curtain and a chair from Karkula.

An Art-filled Kid's Room

At the New York townhouse of Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, their son’s room is anchored by a by an RH Baby & Child bunk bed and enlivened by a Flash Gordon lithograph and a Keith Haring chair by Vilac; the Roman shade is of a DwellStudio fabric for Robert Allen, and the carpet is by Safavieh.

A White Space With Pink Accents

In a children's bedroom in a Hamptons home by KA Design Group and Leroy Street Studio, an Inmod chair and a metal Ligne Roset side table add playful modern notes.

A Serene and Sophisticated Space

In a children's room in Tracy Pollan and Michael J. Fox's Manhattan apartment , sconces from Remains Lighting are mounted between Charles H. Beckley beds upholstered in a Fabricut linen.

A Playful Nursery

At Laure Heriard Dubreuil and Aaron Young's New York City townhouse , the walls in son Marcel’s room are painted in a Donald Kaufman blue (DKC-104), the dresser is by RH Baby & Child, the chair near the window is by Max Lamb, and the Roman shades are of a striped Boussac fabric in different colorways.

A Modern Loft Bed

At the Los Angeles home of designer Brigette Romanek, the loft bed in a daughter’s room was fabricated by Quality Custom Cabinetry. The chair is by Gaetano Pesce.

A Charming Nursery

Whimsical prints of insects and birds flank a framed Hermès scarf in the daughter's room of Jenni Kayne's house in Beverly Hills, California ; the butterfly ceiling installation is by Maurice Harris of Bloom & Plume, the birdcage light fixture is by Mathieu Challières, and the Turkish Tulu rug is from Nathan Turner.