How to Boost Your Room Like a Pirate Ship
Set sail to your imaginary seas with a pirate-ship bedroom makeover jump to please any young matey. Utilize the walls as mural room to provide the ship a 3-D appearance, which makes it appear as though the whole bedroom is your deck of the ship. Round out the room’s decor with pirate-themed accessories like a jolly-roger flag and also fake swashbuckling sword for arrr-worthy inspiration.
Walk the Plank(s)
Wood plank flooring functions as the perfect pirate-ship deck stuff. If your room currently has hardwood flooring, there is little you have to do in order to make it look as a pirate-ship deck. If the ground is carpeted, turn a tan, short-fibered area rug or a sheet of canvas to faux wood by painting boards above it with fabric paint. Create your own faux wood-plank floor with a roll of brown craft paper by cutting the paper to boards of relatively uniform size, then painting a thinned dark paint or glaze over them using a wood-graining comb to make a faux grain look. Once dry, use equal parts school water and glue to adhere the boards above a flat, smooth ground surface, and then seal with polyurethane.
Wild Walls
Create a view in the deck by painting component of a pirate ship on the wall, as if you’re looking over the boat’s sides while exercising at sea. Copy an image of a view off one side of a pirate-style ship and project the image on the wall with an opaque projector, or use chalk to draw the side of the ship in chalk before painting it. Add water and a horizon beyond the edge of the ship, complete with a few other ships off in the distance. Create a similar mural on the other side of the room, adding opinions in the bow and stern of the ship, if desired. A store-bought stick-on mural is just another option if you prefer not to paint the imagery yourself. If you are in the mood for a woodworking project, add wood strips to the lower half of the wall to emulate the look and feel of the actual port and starboard sides of the ship.
Bed and Beyond
A captain’s bed suits the young swashbuckler responsible for his own pirate ship. If the headboard has room — whether a captain’s bed or maybe not — paint on the pirate’s title, like “Captain Jordan” on a background reminiscent of a treasure map, or paint it on a slightly tattered piece of fabric cut into a flag form. Turn a black or navy blue comforter to your jolly roger flag by including a skull-and-crossbones layout in fabric paint. Utilize a bright fabric paint as an outline for bedding that lights up after dark, only for fun. Turn pieces of canvas to drapes that resemble sails with the addition of dowels in the tops and bottoms, adding a few other faux sails above or beneath the window to copy billowing sails to a pirate ship.
Ship-Shape Accessories
Utilize an old wine barrel for a table, reminiscent of their barrels pirates used to store water to their ships. A wooden ship’s wheel, attached to your homemade wood box along with a lectern, provides the way for a pint-sized pirate to sail his stolen ship. An antique steamer trunk or toy box made to resemble a treasure chest holds his precious playtime possessions. Cut synthetic blades from coloured craft foam to hang on the wall, serving as both decor and ensemble accessories everywhere he feels the need to dress up as a pirate.