13 Teen Bedroom Paint Ideas That Are Fun and Cool

Teens have strong opinions and strange ideas of what they think is the in thing for interior design. So the prospect of redoing a teen room can be filled with landmine arguments over colors, furniture and accessories.

Bring some unique and edgy ideas to the table for discussion and prove to your teen you’re still hip. You’ll earn their respect and find some renovations you can both agree on. Here are 13 teen bedroom paint ideas that are fun and cool.

Pastel Purple Paisley

Full of whimsy and girliness, give your teen a lavender room. Add a detail of paisley around the corners or bed frame. You can order in decals to match the paint, or get creative and freehand it yourself. The room is perfect for transitioning from child to adult.

Pink Kitty

Hello Kitty as a pink clad cartoon character speaks to the child in all of us. However, her Japanese and Anime roots make her cool to teens too. Take from her palette to create a teen room ready for up all night sleepovers. If you choose this route, use the signature white kitty to tone down the magenta tones she is around.

Happy Hippie

Mix blues, oranges and greens to create a flower-powered room for your budding love child. Mixing patterns of flowers, stripes and geometric shapes will give the ambiance of a bohemian paradise. Most importantly, it will bring peace to your home.

Sky Time

Take a note from the sky and create a palette of light and sky blues mixed with cloud white for an ethereal room. The blues will bring a calmness into a teen’s life, and the white creates a nice backdrop for the blue.

Outside In

Bring the great outdoors in. Lay grass green carpet and add a bright blue to the walls. By avoiding murals and painted rolling green hills, you’ll make the room feel more grown up and less nursery, which your teen will appreciate.

Chalk It Up

Go chalk board in a teen room to allow them to express, and erase to re-express their personality. Remember, chalkboard means black. While your teen might be all for it, you might not want to stare down a black room. Consider painting one wall in chalkboard paint as a compromise. You’ll still be the coolest parent on the block.

Go Primary

Use only primary colors in your teen’s room. To avoid the preschool feel, avoid red, yellow and blue. Try green, purple and orange mixed in. It will give a citrusy edge to the other colors and create a bright room.

One Color Mural

Allow your teen to put up a large mural on a neutral wall. Choose a monotone or grayscale oversized image. Think of a mustang staring down the closet, or an iconic actor watching over your teen’s sweet dreams.

Pastel and Pink

Marry the brightness of magenta with a pastel yellow to create a room that is equal parts subtle and obvious. The yellow says hey, we’re cool. The magenta responds hey, look at me. Teens will appreciate the dual personality of the room whether they are quietly hiding out, or blaring music.

Natural Twist

Go with a majority of natural wood, furniture and beige colors. Match it up with a citrusy orange or lemon to cut the cuteness. Natural furniture is easy to grow up with. The bright pops can be changed out on a whim.

Grayscale

Surely your teen will start the argument for black at some point. Give in by using it sparingly in a grayscale room. Extra points go out to the parents who use black at the bottom and get progressively lighter to a white ceiling. You’ll get a room you can live with and your teen will get black, albeit a small amount.

Cool Camo

A lot of teen boys are into hunting and camo. They key to bringing camo into a room in a way you can live with is to strategically place it. The natural colors provide a lot of options for walls. Go with a light khaki or beige as the wall color. Put camo into the room on bed textiles. Use wood for accompanying furniture or shelving and you’ll pull camo off as classy.

Black and White

A simple way to make sure you color scheme matches is to use only black and white. Big box and home improvement stores give you oodles of opportunities to get a bedspread in a black and white pattern. Light walls and flooring with a black area rug complete the look.

Did your teen bedroom paint ideas make the list?