Does your boy love race cars? If so, then a race car bedroom theme would be just right!

The Walls

What to do with the walls? There are so many options when it comes to a race car bedroom theme. Painting the walls a nice shade of blue would fit in well with many of the accessories available. You could also consider painting the walls red or yellow if you little guy likes those bright colors.

Murals is another option for a race car theme. A great mural for this theme would be a race car track with cars racing along and a man with the famous black and white checked flag. You could incorporate Nascar, Hot Wheels or the Gran Prix into this.

There are several different pattern choices for wallpaper in a race car bedroom theme. You can either choose the wallpaper that covers the entire wall or go with one of the many borders.

You can also consider decorating with
race car bedroom theme posters.

This is a GREAT idea for that tight decorating budget!

Be sure and check out our
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page for more tips and ideas.

The Bed

The bed can be a simple twin bed, bunk bed or loft bed that you can spruce up with the bedding and walls.

If you want the bed to be the center of attention in this race car bedroom theme then you will love these beds!

The Bedding and Accessories

A solid color bedding in would work just fine in blue, black, red or yellow; but there are some awesome race car bedding choices out there. Just make sure that your race car bedding and your walls compliment each other and don't clash. If your bedding is going to be full of colors and patterns, then you might want to consider going with a solid color for the wall with a nice wallpaper border or sponge paint cars around the room.

As for the accessories...they are so much fun! Use your imagination when it comes to the accessories for your race car bedroom them. Where might you find some car parts to use for this bedroom decorating idea? You got it! The junk yard. You never know what treasures you might find and for a good price too!

Here are some accessory ideas:

*tires
*car props
*tire wall clock or desk clock
*street signs (not the stolen ones!)*race car lamp*locker (great for storage also)*race car flags *traffic light (again, not the stolen ones!)*toy cars*tool boxes

The Furniture

When you decide what furniture to bring into this race car bedroom theme, make sure that it is functional. Furniture needs to be used! You can have decorative accents that will work for furniture like the lockers mentioned above. Here are some furniture ideas:

*Night stand - This can be anything from a plain wood or white nightstand or get creative and use some tires! You could also take an unfinished night stand and decorate it yourself. Nightstands are very useful for storing books, holding a lamp and alarm clock. We can encourage our kids to read before bed by having everything they need available. It's a perfect way for them to unwind from their day.

*Dresser - For this race car bedroom theme don't think that you have to use the traditional dresser. What is a dresser's main purpose? To hold clothes. So a locker might be just the thing to make this bedroom really stand out. Of course you can always go with the traditional dresser and there are some that would look very nice with this decorating idea for boy bedroom.

*Directors Chair - This chair is both functional and decorative.

*Entertainment center - If your boy has a tv, stereo or video game palyer, he needs a good place to store it. There are several options for example: a tv stand, an armoire, or a media center console.

The Rug

There are some perfect rugs for a race car bedroom theme. To protect the carpet or to cover hardwood floors you can go with a larger rug for him to play on. There are big play rugs that he can race his cars on and have many hours of imaginative play. If you just want a rug for decoration purposes then a car shaped rug would look great.

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