How To Create a Little Mermaid Bedroom

Disney Princess Ariel is better known as the Little Mermaid and was my eldest niece’s favorite Disney Princess.   She’s much too old for a Little Mermaid bedroom now (she’s now really old – a teen!), but I can still remember how thrilled she was when I found a Little Mermaid sheet set for her.

Creating a great Disney Princess bedroom can be done by simply adding the appropriate bedding or by adding absolutely everything along the same theme.   A friend of mine who is handy with a paint brush has even added under the sea flourishing touches for a Little Mermaid bedroom for her daughter.   Personally I’m not that good with a paint brush so I would start with plain walls (which are also easier to update when your little girl wearies of Ariel) and use some of the following things to transform your daughter’s bedroom into her very own realm.

The first thing I notice when I enter my daughter’s bedroom is her bed, now when it comes to beds I usually recommend getting a neutral bed either wood or (my personal favorite) white and use the bedding to add impact to the room.

You can use Little Mermaid sheets, comforters and throws to decorate your daughter's bed or you can just use one of these items.

Now as I’ve mentioned if you’re handy with a paint brush you could paint an underwater world for your little girl, but this can be quite a major overhaul when she grows out of her Princess Ariel spell.....and unfortunately she will.

Another way of adding wow factor to a Little Mermaid room is by adding switchplate and outlet covers in Princess Ariel designs.   The amount of wow for your buck with these finishing touches is really good.   It’s a little like adding icing onto a cake.

Looking up to the ceiling and you can continue the Little Mermaid décor with lights, fans and even nets.....

My daughter doesn’t have a fan in her room instead she had a light with a rather plain lightshade.   When we first moved into this house we didn’t have the money to decorate her room (the paint was pretty good and in colors she liked anyway).   What I did do was to take some beading wire and pop some cheap beads in different colors onto the wire and I glued it around the bottom of the lightshade in a scalloped fashion with beads hanging down.   It looked like a princess’ necklace according to my daughter at the time.  

For Princess Ariel I think you would have to use ‘pretend’ pearls which you can pick up really cheaply and in a variety of colors.   If you wanted to involve your own little mermaid princess in the décor of her room you could get her to help you by threading on the beads – this is also great for developing her fine motor skills.

If you have a fan in your daughter’s room you can decorate it with Little Mermaid stickers which add a fun element to the room and something she can look at when she’s lying in bed.   It’s actually a great trick to get her to lie still when you know she’s tired and see if she can count how many stickers there are…….it doesn’t always work, but lots of times it results in them falling asleep without any whining!!

I’m not sure who said it, but I’ve heard someone say that windows are like the eyes of a room and it’s so true. If you have a plain window with no curtain, blind, valance etc then your eyes are drawn to it and it doesn’t matter how nicely decorated the room is you’re left feeling that it’s incomplete.

At the moment I can't find any Little Mermaid curtains for sale online, but you could keep a regular check on your local stores or even eBay and you might get lucky.

My daughter has never had a nightlight in her bedroom, but it appears that a lot of children like to have them and there are a few that feature Ariel.   Personally I always feel that a bedroom is ‘unfinished’ if it doesn’t have a lamp of some description in it.   I’ve managed to find a wonderful lamp (below) featuring the princess mermaid Ariel herself.

I liked having a lamp when I was younger so that I could read before going to sleep and I allow my daughter to do that too…..although I have to sneak up and make sure she hasn’t turned it back on after I’ve told her lights out :)

Depending on how big your little girl’s bedroom is and whether or not you have built ins will make the decision as to how much furniture you need in her room.   A table and chairs can be great as can a desk, comfy chair, bookcase and more.