Accessorize a nautical theme room with a ship's wheel.
Whether you focus on sailing the seas or traveling their depths, with just a little imagination and a few basic craft skills you can create a boy's bedroom that reflects a nautical lifestyle. Choose between adding just a few touches or creating a completely themed room to reflect your boy's nautical interests.
Nautical Touches
Add a few small touches to your boy's bedroom to introduce a feeling of ships and the sea. Use blue and white as the main colors in the room for the walls, curtains and bed coverings. Blue and white striped fabric evokes deck chairs on a cruise ship, and red, yellow and white reflect the colors of nautical flags. Create a focal point on the wall by hanging some nautical items--perhaps a pair of oars or festive regatta flags around the room at the top of the walls. Other nautical accessories include a ship's compass, a life belt and even an anchor.
The Navy
Create a Navy nautical room for boys who have an interest in the military. Draw inspiration from the Navy uniforms and decorate with white and navy blue as well as brass. Everything should be crisp and neat, so use solid colored bedsheets and encourage your son to make his bed everyday. Maps and pictures of ships and submarines can cover the walls. Around the top of the wall, paint that spell out your child's name and use a large leather trunk with brass fittings as storage.
20,000 Leagues
Tie into the current steampunk craze by decorating your son's room as the Nautilus, the submarine in Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." Cut shapes out of foam board to create vintage-looking cogs and wheels, and spray paint them a brass color. Use gears and old watch parts to create a wall clock. Seek out Victorian-looking furniture and accessories, such as desk lamps with green glass shades and leather chairs and luggage. Encourage your son to draw and color mystical sea creatures and frame them in ornate metal frames.
Sailing Ship
Your son can have his own sailing ship in his bedroom. Decorate a wall with a world map and encourage him to plot a sailing route on it. Around the map, hang photos or pictures of the exotic destinations he wants to visit. On another wall, paint a mural of the horizon with land visible in the distance. Stand a tall pole with a crosspiece against the wall and hang a bed sheet from it as a sail. Place a sheet of glass or plastic on a large coil of rope to create a bedside table, and top this with a brass bedside lamp and a miniature telescope.
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