As we’ve entered 2025, our feeds are flooded with fresh design trends for kid’s bedrooms — and we’re selecting our standouts. Thanks to a wave of celebrity-designer collabs (and straight-up celebrity collabs), the kids-bedroom design world is getting a major glow-up.
Gone are the gendered room colours, clunky silhouettes, and the singular, heavy-handed themes. The new trends are pulling inspiration from the greater adult-design world, and translating it for tiny tastemakers in training. This year, while proportions and playfulness remain age appropriate, kid’s bedroom designs will grow up in a big way.
But since children’s spaces have such specific (yet ever-changing) needs, function has long outranked form. Babies need change tables, toddlers need toy shelves, and bigger kids need study stations. Thankfully, many emerging trends in 2025 will merge the two, giving parents what they really want — a space that reflects their personal style, but with lots and lots of hidden storage!
1. All About That (Neutral) Base
Looking at trending paint colours for kid’s bedroom design in 2025, it’s clear neutral is far from neutral — it’s a very active player. Whites, creams, greys, taupes: these barely-there tints provide a solid base, allowing for more creativity in the long run. In fact, by keeping the room’s walls, floors and furnishings colour-free, it’s easier (and more economical) to update the bedding, artwork or peel-and-stick wallpaper as your child’s interests change.
Jenny Lind White Wood Spindle Kids Twin Bed, Crate & Kids, $1,099.
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2. Fantasy Land
Now, if we were to pick one particular creature or animal that’s dominating the 2025 kid’s bedroom design trends, it would be the dragon. But unlike past trend cycles, skip splattering this au courant animal everywhere (we see you, hedgehog, fox and sloth!) and go subtle. Indeed, a simple, easy-to-remove wall decal here or a soft Jellycat dragon there is all you need to fulfill this dreamy, dragon-decorating fantasy.
Golden Dragon Wall Decal, Etsy, $63.
3. Bonker Beds
In 2025, children’s bed designs are levelling up. A basic twin tucked into the corner isn’t going to cut it anymore; these next-level kid’s beds are making a serious design statement. Leading the way is the Greenguard Gold Certified Tucker Bed, designed by celebrated designer Jeremiah Brent as part of his stunning kids-decor collaborative collection with Crate & Barrel. Part teddy bear, part Montessori floor bed, its super-soft sherpa upholstery and low profile make it the perfect piece for that tricky crib-to-bed transition.
Tucker Brown Sherpa Kids Twin Bed by Jeremiah Brent, Crate & Kids, $1,299-$1,599.
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4. Arch You Glad to See Me
An overarching (no pun intended) trend in kid’s bedroom design, furnishings and accessories for 2025 is the liberal use of the arch. For example, table corners are rounded, dresser handles are curved, and soft accessories are round and squishy. These gentle curves and soft arches create a visual sense of comfort and safety in children’s spaces.
Play Table, $495, and Bear Play Chairs, $395 (set of 2); both Oeuf Canada.
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5. Smart Design, Every Time
Many parents are maxed out — on time, money and energy. So when they invest in a new piece for their child’s bedroom, it needs to do a lot of heavy lifting. Author, parent and fashion tastemaker Eva Chen intrinsically understood this brief when she designed her kid’s room collection with West Elm. For this trend, each piece must perform multiple functions that go beyond its main purpose, such as her curved, Fair Trade Certified reading nook chair, which also has two built-in book displays.
Eva Chen Arched Reading Nook with Bookcase, West Elm Kids, $899.
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6. It’s Grow Time
Babies grow into toddlers, toddlers into kids, and kids into gangly teenagers. As their bodies change, so do the needs of their bedroom. As a result, transitional furniture is one way we can stave off spending a fortune on new furniture every few years. Dressers come with changing-pad inserts, nursing chairs turn into reading nooks, and cribs convert to toddler beds. In 2025, look for well-designed transitional pieces that can extend right into adolescence. In fact, West Elm already has a number of cool crib styles (see above) that, with the purchase of a conversion kit and larger mattress, can be transformed into a fully functional double bed!
Mid-Century 4-in-1 Crib Conversion Kit, West Elm Kids, $200-$299.
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7. Heritage Moments
In 2025, not only will kid’s furniture design aim to stand the test of time, the materials themselves will also invoke a sense of nostalgia. Heritage materials, such as rattan, quilted fabrics and raw linen, absolutely add natural texture. Nonetheless, it’s their raw, timeless quality that sparks the storyteller. It’s easy to imagine the hands that stitched a vintage bed throw, or reflect on the tenacity of rattan harvester, climbing up towering palms. Each piece was touch by human hands, connecting us through time-honoured crafts and throughout time, with no concern for trends.
Rattan Kids Collection, H&M Home, $75-$124.
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8. The “Fifth” Wall
Break the “fifth” wall of bedroom-design conventions and look straight up — the ceiling is an under-utilized canvas on which creativity can flow. So, keep the walls simple and let the ceiling pull focus, or directly integrate it into the wall-treatment plan. No matter which way you cut it, ceilings will be a big part of the big picture when it comes to kid’s bedroom design productions in 2025.
9. Flexspace Flex
With more than a third of Canadians living in apartments, earmarking rooms for one specific purpose isn’t always an option. Furthermore, kid’s rooms must be many things: bedroom by night, study after school, playroom/library/storage space in between.
In 2025, this trend turns kid’s bedrooms into fun flexspaces, where organization, functionality and flexibly are all high priorities. Fashion (and now family) tastemaker Eva Chen’s reading-focused capsule collection for West Elm Kids perfectly encapsulates this modern move. That is, most pieces can be flipped, switched or swung around to perform another task or support another stage in a kid’s life.
Eva Chen for West Elm Kids, West Elm Kids, $29-$3,749.
10. For Kids, Not Kitsch
This sophisticated kid’s bedroom design trend is all about making the space feel youthful but not juvenile. So, dark-wood foundational pieces, such as the Rachel Hazelnut Wood Kids Canopy Bed by Jeremiah Brent for Crate & Kids, rich materials, and substantial window treatments are its grounding features. But the playfulness is there in the wall treatments, textiles and accessories, which abound with pretty patterns, unexpected colours and nods to nature.
Rachel Hazelnut Wood Kids Canopy Bed by Jeremiah Brent, Crate & Kids, $3,299.
