Children’s Rooms: Grown-Up Boys’ Spaces

As boys go beyond the cowboy/pirate/Harry Potter stages, they need more grown-up spaces. We like these undeniably masculine rooms for boys heading into their teenage years, some of them featuring unexpected color combinations.

Above: A sophisticated boys room with a rustic vibe.

Above: A boy’s room in Sweden; photo by Patric Johansson for Skona Hem.

Above: A bedroom for a surfer boy; photo by Daniel Hertzell.

Above: A room at the Ace Hotel in Seattle.

Above: A room for a budding musician in London by Annabelle Selldorf.

Above: A room in Australia by Villa & Villa, spotted on Desire to Inspire.

Above: Blake Dollahite’s bedroom in Austin, Texas.

Above: Berkeley boy’s room from More Ways to Waste Time (walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Robin’s Nest Blue).

Above two photos: Inspiration from the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon.