When decorating children's rooms, the present economic situation creates challenges. How to make a room appealing and fun while budget conscious? Undoubtedly, if expense is not an issue, decorating is easier. However, for many, incorporating bedding to help with the decorating job can be both cost effective and inspiring. However, with bedding for kids spanning a wide range in quality and price, it is wise to consider choices that satisfy several aspects at once. In keeping with the nature of children, bedding needs to stand up to frequent changes, laundering, and wear and tear. Furthermore, selections that are comfortable yet cost effective, while still contributing to interior design needs, are most desirable.

Particularly on a limited budget, well chosen bedding can inspire a room's theme and lend color and excitement to plain walls. For boys, a comforter with action figures, trucks, or bold geometric prints and matching sheets can enliven. Not only for sleeping and dreaming, a bedroom that invites play does double duty. When the bedding has a strong design theme, the absence of wallpaper, a significant decorating expense, provides the serene relief that sleep demands. Sturdy colorful bins for toys make clean-up easy, and a painted bookcase that echoes bedding helps organization. By adding a throw rug that also coordinates with bedding colors, simple wall decor can suffice. A large cork-board displaying a child's own art and schoolwork can be used, and budget permitting, a simple print or poster that continues the bedding theme will add further pizazz.

Similarly, girls' rooms can be enhanced by theme oriented bedding. Comforters with princesses, flowers and whimsical designs, or soft, cuddly animals can go far towards establishing an inviting atmosphere while not straining the budget. Once the bedding is chosen, an enjoyable activity for children to participate in, putting a few more decorative touches around the room now has a focus. Using colors and motifs from the bedding, existing accessories can be freshly painted and trimmed with decals that follow the bedding's colors and theme. Painting an old toy chest the pink of the bedding, followed by stick-on tiaras and castles, will personalize a little girl's hideaway and give her plenty to dream about.