How to incorporate creativity into your bedroom

Creativity and Bedroom Decor

When you walk into a person’s bedroom, it should feel lived in. I would say the same thing about a house. A house should be a home. Most adolescents have certain control over the state of their bedrooms and this is what I want to accent.

The place where you sleep should be filled with your dreams, the place in which you wake up should pleasantly greet you in the morning. Your bedroom should be your salvation, the place where to go to collect your thoughts, the place that makes you feel heard and understood. Your bedroom should reflect your deepest thoughts and your most unique ideas. It is where you should feel at home.

People tend to look through media (movies, magazines, Pinterest, Instagram, Tiktok etc) and create their bedrooms established by another person’s preferences. Living in a room that was built for another person is like walking in shoes that have been broken in by someone else. Your bedroom should reflect you. It should grow with you as you grow and change with you as you change. This doesn’t mean you must get rid of everything in it as you develop, it could simply mean incorporating new things into your living space. Perhaps it could mean wiping the palette clean and starting fresh with a brand new room. Everything is on the table.

When I was a child I used to hoard, it represented who I was then. I had miscellaneous posters covering the walls and shelves filled with thrifted sweaters. One day I woke up and I hated everything I owned. I sorted and I donated and I changed. I gave my room the same makeover as I gave to my person. I wiped it clean. Little by little, I started collecting furniture from the street and thrift shops. Not all the furniture has stayed, certain pieces remain but I’ve grown out of others. There are parts of my child self that I still hold onto. I own too many shoes to count and I would’ve loved that as a kid. I started framing my art and hanging pieces on my walls. I found posters of books I truly love instead of random posters torn from donated magazines. When I look at my walls I see the comforting faces of my favourite characters. I established a theme in my room, which could change tomorrow but for now, it is a representation of part of me, vintage, cottagecore, inspired by Anne of Green Gables, an internal influence. I have busks of prodigious musicians and I’ve organized my guitars in a row on my wall. I made myself a home in my bedroom.

Having the motivation to change your room can be one of the greatest challenges to overcome, but this change doesn’t have to happen in a day. Taking one step by putting up a brochure from a play you attended could make you feel the warmth of that memory and change the way you feel when you wake up in the morning. Painting your walls a different colour could align yourself and your surroundings, you might finally feel at peace in your physical state.

Change is natural, let it come. You have the power to create change, let yourself use it to your advantage. Express yourself in the walls around you and let your room be a mirror of your mind.