Two things make a child's room different from every other room in the house. The person who uses it is shorter than you, and the room gets rearranged every few years. Both should change what you buy and where you put it.
Hang it at their height, not yours
The 145 cm rule is built around adult eye level. In a child's room it puts the art above the person it is for.
| Age | Approx. eye level | Centre the art at |
|---|---|---|
| 2-4 years | 85-100 cm | 100-110 cm |
| 5-8 years | 105-125 cm | 115-125 cm |
| 9-12 years | 130-150 cm | 135-145 cm |
Hanging low has a second benefit: it leaves the upper wall free, which is where shelving usually ends up anyway. If you would rather not re-hang everything in three years, aim at the upper end of the range and let the child grow into it. The standard height and its reasoning are in how high to hang art.
Not above the bed
The wall above a child's bed is the one place not to hang framed art. Glass above a sleeping child is a risk that no arrangement is worth, and children's beds get climbed on and jumped in.
Put the art on the wall opposite the bed, where it is the thing they see from the pillow, or beside a desk or play area. If the wall above the bed must have something, use an unframed print with a poster hanger, or a fabric piece.
Daschund on Bicycle - Coco de Paris
Giraffes in Bathtub - Coco de Paris
Bubblegum giraffe poster
Sød giraf poster til børn
Sød giraf poster til børn #2
læbebjørn poster til børn
Sizes for a room that changes
Children's rooms turn over faster than any other room, so the sensible strategy is several small pieces rather than one large one. Swapping one 30×42 when a phase ends costs a fraction of replacing a 70×100, and the arrangement survives the change.
Three 30×42 in a row, or a loose cluster of four to six mixed 21×30 and 30×42, both work well and both allow individual pieces to be replaced. Twelve arrangements with exact measurements are in the gallery wall guide.
The two small formats are A4 and A3, so they take standard mounts and are the cheapest to swap. How the sizes relate to each other is set out in the poster size guide.
Subjects that last longer than a phase
Animals, nature and alphabet prints outlast character licences by years, and they hold up when the room is redecorated rather than needing to be replaced with it. A child who loves one particular thing this year will love a different one next year — a fox, a whale or a jungle scene survives both.
Prints for a child's room also want more colour than an adult room takes, and that is one of the few places where a saturated palette is the right call rather than a bold one.
Frames: colour is available here
Because the useful formats in a child's room are small, the full colour frame range is open — white, dark brown, blue, green, red, yellow and pink, all up to 50×70. A coloured frame does real work in a child's room, where the same choice elsewhere would be a statement. Both oak and black run through all five sizes — see them here.
Choosing the print
The children's selection covers animals, nature and playful subjects in the smaller formats.