How to Turn Your Child's Room into a Disney Retreat: Wall-E

Turn your child's bedroom into a Disney retreat with a Wall-E theme. The Wall-E robot theme can be easily done using soothing earth colors, touches of read, and some fun metallic accents.

How To Turn Your Child's Room into a Disney Retreat: Wall-E Paint Palette

The appealing aspect of a using a Disney Wall-E theme bedroom is that the Wall-E color palette is subtle and versatile. When you paint a child's Disney retreat room using the Wall-e colors, the room will transition well as the child ages.

Start with a warm yellow. The yellow can be quiet or it can be loud. Sticking with the Disney theme, these paint colors are drawn from the Disney Home paints by Behr Paints. Similar hues can be found in other paint interior lines.

One yellow that makes a solid starting point for the Wall-E Disney retreat child's room is Baby Bee Yellow. Combine it with the smooth Buzz Beta Sector Brown. Add Gamma Ray red accents for boys. This red will represent the little E on Wall-E's body. For girls, instead of red, opt for the Snow White's Song. This color reflects the wine color of Wall-E's eyes.

Neutrals could include Baby Roo or Whistling Wind.

For creative murals consider painting an underwater scene or a space scene on one wall, where Wall-E and your child can explore.

How To Turn Your Child's Room into a Disney Retreat: Wall-E Play Area

Encourage children to create their own robots by filling a toy box full of recycled household items. Include boxes, paper towel tubes, old dryer hoses, and any other age appropriate items. Remember to include a roll of duct tape to hep them keep it all together.

DIY Ideas How To Turn Your Child's Room into a Disney Retreat: Wall-E

Light Switch Plates

Remove light switch plates and repaint them will metallic paint.

Turn the Door into a Control Center for Disney's Wall-E Robot

Repaint the inside of the child's bedroom door to mimic the gadgets, buttons and robot parts of Disney's Wall-E. A door with recessed panels is perfect for this project. Each recessed square can represent a different Wall-E robot or any robot function.

Paint one square to look like an intercom or speaker. Paint one small red square to look like a button. Above that paint a rectangle, with small black rectangles inside it, to look like a small speaker.

Use the other recessed boxes to paint colorful boxes and buttons that look like robot Wall-E lights.

Disney Wall-E Theme Furniture: Think Square and Boxy

The Disney Wall-E theme bedroom should include only square and rectangular furniture. Lose the round tables, lamps and mirrors. Paint the furniture a dull metallic color to make it look more robotic.

Disney's Wall-E and Robot Decor Shopping Ideas

Robot Dresser Drawer Hardware

Change out the dresser drawer hardware with some funky and clunky metallic hardware. Or opt for colorful robot drawer hardware. Check the drawer hardware pieces sold by CoolKnobsandpulls.com.

Decorate Walls: Wall-E Robot and Friends

Give Disney's Walle-E some robot friends in the form of wall decals. Check out the robot wall decals from Moderntots.com

Sources

CoolKnobsandPulls.com, http://coolknobsandpulls.com
Disney/Pixar's Wall-E
Disney Paint Colors, http://disney.go.com/disneyhome/disneypaints.html