Every princess needs a cas­tle. Cre­at­ing a princess room for your daugh­ter is an oppor­tu­nity for both of you to imag­ine, cre­ate, and bond together. All lit­tle girls know that Dis­ney and the Dis­ney princess are the experts on the proper décor for a lit­tle princess.

When cre­at­ing a princess room, you first need to know the lit­tle princesses opin­ion. Who is her favorite princess? Is it a Dis­ney Princess? Cin­derella? Jasmine?

It may be a good idea to watch her favorite movie with her, to see what she adores the most. Pay atten­tion to what it is your daugh­ter likes most about her favorite princess. Is she attracted to the bright col­ors? Is it the com­pan­ions of the princess? Or does she love the gowns that the princess wears?

After get­ting a gen­eral idea of what your daugh­ter likes, pick a focal point for the room. Per­haps your daugh­ter will have a canopy bed, or a framed Cin­derella print, or a mural. The focal point should be placed in the room so that the eye is drawn to it when the door is opened.

From the focal point, you can expand to the rest of the room. What col­ors for the walls? The Dis­ney Princesses seem to revolve around pink, blue, and yel­low, but what color does your lit­tle girl love the most? Remem­ber when paint­ing to choose a shade lighter than the color you want since the color gets brighter the more space that is painted.

Choose bed­ding with color and find cur­tains to match. If you want the room to grow with your child, try choos­ing bed­ding with­out prints, since it can be used for any style of room. Use tex­tures instead of prints: it makes the room into a more real­is­tic pre­tend cas­tle. Try sheer cur­tains or silk bed­ding. Lit­tle toes love shag rugs or area rugs. If your daugh­ter wants her favorite Dis­ney Princesses to the stars of her room, place a few printed pil­lows on the bed to bring out the theme.

Take your lit­tle princess shop­ping! If you let her help pick out the fab­rics, she will feel per­son­ally invested and proud of the room. It also insures that she will like it!

Con­sider wear the play area will be. Does she need an area to store a Cin­derella cos­tume and other toys? What about a book­shelf? If you are unable to find match­ing wood fur­ni­ture for these items, try paint­ing them all a neu­tral white. You can even sand the edges after paint­ing for a more rus­tic look.

Before arrang­ing the room, make a model. A to-scale model on graph paper will suf­fice, or you can make a dio­rama from a card­board box if you want your lit­tle princess to have a real­is­tic view of the room before it is fin­ished. Plot where the fur­ni­ture will go. Is the focal point what the eye was drawn to when the door was first opened? Find out what your daugh­ter thinks of the room. Make sure to get approval before you start remod­el­ing the castle!

Depend­ing on your child’s age, you may want to hang the pic­tures a lit­tle lower than usual. Typ­i­cally inte­rior design­ers sug­gest hang­ing pic­tures about 60’’ from the ground, or eye about level. Lower that stan­dard a foot or two, so that way the pic­tures are within just about eye level for the child. Dec­o­ra­tive mold­ing can be low­ered appro­pri­ately as well.

Cre­at­ing a princess room can be a fun fam­ily expe­ri­ence, and cre­at­ing a place for your child to imag­ine and feel at home it a price­less investment.