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.

Before you even step into this magic realm that you’ve created the door should adorn a sign to give a little indication as to what awaits the subjects inside.   In my experience children love having signs on their door as well and this Little Mermaid sign works really well as you can personalize it for your own little princess.

The easiest way to transform your daughter’s bedroom into a Little Mermaid bedroom is by purchasing this 'Little Mermaid Room in a Box’ set. The kit features an easy to assemble toddler bed, a toy organizer as well as a table and chair set.

The furniture is all in a background of turquoise, accented with lilac (classic Ariel colors) with images of Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian.

The first thing I notice when I enter my daughter’s bedroom is her bed, now if you’ve decided not to go with the toddler bed above I usually recommend getting a neutral bed either wood or (my personal favorite) white and use the bedding to add impact to the room.

This four piece toddler bedding set contains a flat sheet, a fitted sheet, pillowcase and a comforter.   A licensed Little Mermaid bedding set it features Princess Ariel on a turquoise background.   This beautiful bedding set is sure to make the fussiest of toddlers very, very happy.

There are lots of different variations of Little Mermaid bedding from the turquoise color background to the lilac background, one of my favorites is the Little Mermaid Sea Dreams bedding which you can see here.

To create this ethereal Princess Ariel bedroom look you’ll need the following bedding –

There are still other Little Mermaid options for bedding including the following -

If you don’t want to buy a whole Princess Ariel bedding set there are ways around it.   Simply purchase plain sheets and comforters and buy a decorative pillow and a throw or blanket to drape over the bed.   An economical version of a Little Mermaid bed that will still enthrall your little girl the first time she sees it.

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.   I find that using wall stickers are a great way of decorating the walls with the added bonus that you can just peel them off when she turns her attention towards Bratz or Hannah Montana!

Now if you really want to add a border there are a number of different wallpaper borders available including these –

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!!

Adding a fish net to the ceiling in the corner of the room is a great idea for extra storage in the room.   This is especially good when your little girl has lots of stuffed toys that she wants to keep, but doesn’t play with very often.   Pop them up in the net and they can ‘keep an eye on her’ and they’re not cluttering up the rest of the room.

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.

Luckily there are a number of different window treatments you can use to create your daughter’s underwater kingdom.   They include the five piece window treatment opposite which includes two rod pocket curtains, two matching tie backs and a valance.

Of course you could just use plain curtains in a complimentary color or blinds and just add a Little Mermaid valance and the effect would still be very nice.   Even without a valance as long as you’ve picked out the colors that you’ve used in the room the windows will look great and there’s always other ways of accenting your windows such as window clings.

Window clings can also add some dimension to the window and are a touch that seems to be very appreciated by young children.

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 revolving lamp 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.

When my daughter was first born I brought a very plain chest of drawers and decorated the knobs with pooh bear designs, as she grew out of pooh I used other drawer knobs like the Disney Princesses and nine years later the same chest of drawers are still being used. I’ve managed to find some Little Mermaid drawer knobs in case you wanted to replicate that idea.

Other finishing touches for a bedroom include snowglobes, nesting dolls and jewelry boxes which can be found at the following links –