A friend of mine did a Western theme with chocolate walls, rustic beds. I don't have a picture to share though.

When my DS was six he loved space stuff. Walls navy and khaki, khaki quilt, glow in the dark space sheets, and glow in the dark stars on the ceiling done into constellations. I'm not a fan of the stars but they were easy, didn't make a mess, and DS loved it.

What does your son have an interest in?

Sports.....it will be a theme they add to and use for many years. We started my sons sports room when he was 3, he is now 9. We recently bought a new baseball/reversable football comforter from BB&B online. Now that he is older he likes football and baseball. For some unknown reason I can not upload to photobucket. Over the years we have added favorite team pennants around his room. We use to have those wall clings. When we moved I took them with us but the orange peel walls didnt allow them to re-stick properly. Recently we added a shelf on one entire wall, its about 18 inches from the ceiling. He has all his trophies on there as well as other sports related things like his old mit, some footballs, etc.

What does he say he wants and loves?

Does he have any interests? Sports, nautical, and pirates all come to mind. Here is the bedding I used for my 5 y/o. I *hope* it's going to grow well with him:

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Call me a dud, but my favorite room for my boys weren't really kiddie rooms. Company Store Down quilt (barely off white), Latte color walls with white trim. Latte colored blinds. They had maple beds (light). This was the basic room.

Then you can add/subtract/change it up with inexpensive pillows, rugs, pictures, etc that reflect their current interests/color as they grow without having to spend the high dollars over and over on paint, curtains and bedding.

The bed was very easy for them to make and the cozy comforters survived a million washings and dryings.

I love plaids in a boy's room, quilts with antique furniture that can get knocked around a bit.

thanks for all these ideas. He wants it "all blue" - now what the heck do I do with that???

My son had a blue room for years. Originally it was a color I matched to go w/the nursery bedding. As he grew older, we did blue/red-check comforter and added some cowboy accessories. Later on the same blue went well with lake/fly fishing things. It was easy to change the accessories as he grew out of different stages. Lucky for me, because I hate to paint.
We moved and he got neutral walls. We did a tan/camo room for a while but it was kind of dull. I decided to spice it up and have been working on a tropical/surfer look. The basic wall color will remain but I got very colorful bedding and prints. Am looking for a decorative surfboard to hang in there. He's 17 and it's still fun to do his room and I'm still working with blues, though now it's more of a turquoise.
Enjoy your little one.

I just painted me boys' room, age 6 and 3. I wanted something fun and bright, but was hestitant to go with a theme because they will outgrow it before I have time to paint again.

I did a really rich blue wall (medium to dark color - I just found a blue shirt I really liked, then used it to pick a paint color.) The blue really pops with the trim I painted white, their white dresser and warm pine colored beds.

Then, I painted 3 stripes about 1 foot from the ceiling - thin white (about 1 inch thick), then a thin band of the wall color, then red (about 10 inches thick), then a band of the wall color, then thin white again. It goes all the way around the room, and adds some serious pizzaz and helps to make the space appear larger. I did the same stripe in my last house at chair rail height, and stenciled some Dr Seuss words on it for a more juvenile effect. You could stencil any shapes you wanted, or use those wall stickups if you wanted a theme.

Then I added red/blue plaid quilts, and some fun artwork, some red/blue striped curtains with white curtain rod, etc. It is super cute and they won't outgrow it anytime soon, I hope!

To the person looking for surfboards, I saw one seller who makes them on ebay if you search, and they are super cute. I looked at her surfboards and ended up just making my own with plywood and a jigsaw. Not that hard of a project, and I was able to personalize them for my girls.

Have you looked at all the pictures in the kids' room thread in our Gallery? There is an adults bedrooms thread in there too, with hundreds of photos of beautiful rooms.

Here is a link that might be useful: Kids and Teens Rooms

Alaska, that is a great idea about the strips. TY

Ocean, I appreicate the link, had not looked there.

Fussy chicken(wow, what a name!) Very smart Idea. I like the carry thru the years idea.
Thanks everyone...

Madras plaids, stripes anything like that on the outside would be great. Our 5 year old's room is a medium blue SW Notable Hue. Bedding is blue, white and lime green from Nautica. Last year he loved pirates so he had pirate sheets, this year it is Star Wars. We both are happy--he gets the characters he loves and the room still looks put together.

When my boys were younger we did khaki colored walls, denim quilts and shams. Added some red for color and it was great. As they got older things changed some but the denim quilts held up well.
We had some nice unfinished furniture we painted red, found some old metal beds and painted them red as well. Looked nice and was no theme...
Later we added ball trophies and farm stuff.
Karen L

We've always done the khaki/blue/plaid-type thing for our boys, too, that has evolved into a Ralph Lauren look as they've grown up. They both ended up "decorating" their own rooms with sports signatures and memorabilia from the ball games and trips that we took throughout their childhoods. Now, they have a nice accumulation of memories as well as very nice sports memorabilia collections.

Have fun decorating your son's room, and watching it evolve over the years! :)

I redid our boys rm. this summer when they decided they wanted to bunk up together. They are 5 & 2yrs old. I'd been collecting transportation stuff for a few yrs. and storing away but was determined not to have a themed kiddish bedroom. The colors are red, white and blue but more grown up. In these pics there is a crib but we just replaced the crib and single bed w/ matching antique beds. I hung the pics above the beds too high because I wasn't sure how they would behave w/ them. I still have to move them down. It's all pretty vintage style stuff. I must confess that both of my boys are enthralled w/ cars and stuff and spend endless days w/ their Pop Pop working on antique cars. I tried to be sure that it was something that they were interested in.

Here are some pics along w/ some of the airplanes hanging from the ceiling: