Disney Room Ideas

DME

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
I just purchased a home which I'll be moving into in a few weeks and one of our five bedrooms is being devoted to a Disney room. I had a Disney room in my parents' house (After I got married I kept everything at their place while my family and I were living in an apt) but now that I have a house I can decorate the room anyway I'd like. I have hundreds of books, figurines, collectibles, etc that I want to display and my question is:

What color should I paint the room? Right now it has a beige rug and mint green walls. I was thinking of the "Disney" paint they sell at Home Depot. I really like Mickey colors but wasn't sure how to fit those colors into the room. I'm not very artistic so the best I could do is paint solid colors on the walls and trim. Anyone have any ideas?

Perhaps paint one wall Mickey red and perhaps paint the other walls white and the trim of the door and window yellow or black????
 

alpop

New Member
One thing I'd love to do.
Get a load of chicken wire and plaster and build a finding nemo style room. Inside the fake rocks I'd inset a marine fish aquarium. Paint the ceiling blue. A sandy coloured carpet. I suppose you get the idea.
You can even get lights tha cast a ripple effect accross the ceiling.

But that's only suitable in a Finding Nemo Little Mermaid idea.
 

chinitopoop

Member
I think using the traditional mickey colors is a lil tacky (just my opinion), if your really willing to go "all out" on your disney room tho, you might want to look into hiring a good artist that can draw some disney murals for you, maybe some characters, or places in disneyworld that you really like, or you can even get them to recreate main street for you! (if they're that good of an artist and can really capture depth in a picture), pick one wall where you would want the castle to be and then use the other 3 walls around it to depict the shops and the street itself, to make it seem like your standing right in the hub, now obviously that might be a little more costly, dont know if your budget might support that. but i know that they can make wallpaper off of pictures now so u can look into that too and get a nice panorama made to make it seem like your standind right in the middle of your favortie place in the world, ultimately tho, its all up to u, do what makes YOU feel good, a "disney room" should make you feel happy and excited to be in it, and only YOU know what about disney makes you happy and excited, good luck! and make sure to post some pictures when your done!:wave:
 

elcodfish

New Member
Disney Room

I have a "Disney Room" that is a playroom for my nephews, I painted the walls medium blue, the ceiling yellow and it has red curtains. It sounds wierd but it really works and seems very clean and disney like. You could also paint the walls a nice off white color which can help anchor all the different colors your collectibles will have, and then if you like on the wall you can use stamps of a mickey head or use quilting circles as a stencil for some hidden mickeys or a border.
 

Tiggerish

Resident Redhead
Premium Member
I have a Disney room, too. It is our office/computer room. Three walls are papered in a Mickey-head pattern that I found, must be eight years ago. It kind of looks like this:
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, except that the mickeyheads are the open, swirly type, kind of like this:
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, and they are red, blue, yellow and green on a white background.

The rug in the room was blue, and we couldn't afford to change it, so the blue in the paper works well with that, and I had a slipcover made for the sofa that is a small checked pattern of red, yellow, and blue.

I didn't have enough $$ for enough paper for all four walls, so the back wall of the room (the wall that faces the door) is yellow. I took a swatch of the wallpaper to the paint chip aisle, and I matched the yellow from the wallpaper exactly, then chose a color about three shades lighter that I thought I could live with, as even though they say yellow is a nice cheery color and a very good room color, the yellow in the wallpaper was very bright.

I thought I was being very clever with my "subtle" Mickey wallpaper, I figured it would be like hidden Mickeys, only DH and I would know they were there, but guess what, everyone recognizes them!!

On the yellow wall, over the sofa, I have six framed lithographs (the ones they used to give away free with video purchase) from Toy Story, Hercules, Jungle Book, Aristocats, Mary Poppins, and Peter Pan. I also have on the walls: a Mickey Sorcerer sericel, a framed piece that I made from two Mickey Sorcerer notecards purchased years ago at the Disney Store, my series of four Princess sericels, which are hanging next to the curio cabinet holding my collection of porcelain Princess statues (about 6" high, the Disney Store sold them back in the good old days). Over the file cabinet hangs a 20K Leagues attraction poster that we got at the Disney Outlet in Orlando. I also have a few collage frames that hold our pictures with the characters over the years, and one of them is devoted exclusively to my traditional "me & Tigger" pictures. I have a giant postcard from the 25th anniversary celebration (extra long, it features a parade of dozens of characters) which is framed and hanging over the door.

On the window seat, I have three cushions that I got at the Disney At Home store at DTD Marketplace (I miss that store!!)--two Mickey shoes, and one Mickey pants. My large Maine cat, Scooter, looooves to sleep snuggled up with these pillows. He will alternate between the Mickey feet and the pants, but tends to favor the feet (he can get in between them and be comfy on all sides)

I have lots more posters/lithos, etc. but am running out of wall space.

To the OP, my suggestion would be to do a google search for "wallcovering Disney" (if you search for wallpaper, you get wallpaper for your computer!). That's how I found the swatch that I inserted above--it also comes in red on white. There are quite a few options out there, including a couple of wall-size murals that are amazing. If you just want to paint the walls, I'm sure you can come up with something pleasing. Your idea about one red wall is good, you could paint the others yellow (it is a very cheerful color), or do one red, one yellow, two white (or two yellow, one white), using black window trim on the white walls, and white trim on the yellow ones, of course this color scheme sorta yells "Mickey Mouse", which is fine if most of your collectibles are Mickey-oriented.

Sorry to ramble on so, and please do let us know what you decide to do. :wave:
 

jajt6106

New Member
In our previous house the kitchen/dining area was Disney themed. We had white walls so I painted the baseboards Mickey red and then accented the room with black window treatments and throw rugs. I collect Disney snowglobes so they were on the top of the cabinets.
 

DME

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not just doing a room that has a Disney theme. It's actually designed to house a tremendous collection of Disney items. Literally over 400 books about the Company and movies, every dvd/vhs Disney ever manufactured in the 20th century plus figurines, and many other park collectibles. So Most of my walls will be covered in collectible posters and bookcases and other display cases. While the idea of painting walls to look like Main Street or other WDW things is totally cool, I just need someting subdued on the walls so they're cool but I guess not distracting to the eye with all the stuff there is to look at in the room. Perhaps just white walls? Or a subtle Disney border around the room?
 

mermaid1

New Member
I have so much Beauty and the Beast memorabilia I HAVE to do a B&tB room LOL! I will do one room with all that and then my office will be general Disney with the Fab 6 and a mixture of all things Disney....I want EVERY room in my house to be Disney! YAY! We even have Disney bedding and towels and you name it. Like being at a resort. I LOVE it. Oh yeah, my next biggest collection...Little Mermaid! I need to paint a room like the ocean and do a "Under The Sea" room, Nemo could be added in there...:)
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