How to Create a Harry Potter Bedroom

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Last Updated: September 19, 2024 Approved

You're a Harry Potter fan and want to have a Harry Potter themed room, but don't have lots of spare money for it? Or maybe, you just want some ideas!

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Choosing a color theme for the room

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Choose a color to paint your room. Choose the colors of your favorite Hogwarts house to show off your personality. Hogwarts is mostly wood or stone, so you can paint it to look like either. But remember you may not like Harry Potter or Hogwarts later on in your life. Know which house you're in because each Hogwarts dorm is decorated with the colors of the houses. The colors are:^{[1]
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- Scarlet and gold for Gryffindor
- Yellow and black for Hufflepuff.
- Blue and bronze for Ravenclaw
- Green and silver for Slytherin
It will take up a big part of the room, and it will certainly imply that you're a Harry Potter fan. Plus, it'll look pretty awesome!

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Decorating the room

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Decorate your room. You can decorate it with banners that match the color of the room, or you could use authentic-looking items that were used in the books or movies. Or, if you don't have a lot of money, you can just decorate your walls with posters. Another thing you can do is get some statues or toys of your house's animal! The house animals are:^{[2]
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- Gryffindor: Lion
- Hufflepuff: Badger
- Ravenclaw: Eagle
- Slytherin: Serpent
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Put up all the movie posters on your wall and different variations of them so you won't just have eight posters, but nine for Deathly Hallows parts one and two and the Cursed Child.
- You can even make your own. If you're good at drawing, draw a picture of your favorite character. Or just write the name of the house you're in, using a marker.
Put up pictures of Harry Potter, fake potion bottles, a fake sword of Godric Gryffindor, a spellbook, etc. You could also make a Hogwarts acceptance letter, and display it proudly on your wall.
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Add soft furnishings. For your bed, you can put curtains around it if you have space, just like the students in your dormitory do. You can also change the sheets of your bed to your favorite house color.^{[3]
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- Get Harry Potter pillows, bedsheets, etc. Etsy is a good place to look. However, you may find this is over-the-top to add Harry Potter bedding, so don't worry if you don't want it.
- You can hang pinch-pleat curtains. The best way to hang pinch pleat curtains is to use drapery pins. It is easy to adapt those pins.
- If you do not want the ring in which you are putting the pin to show, put the top of the pinch pleat in line with the rod.
- It raises the curtain off the ground a little more, and the hardware does not show.
A toy cat, owl or toad would be great. A rat is also okay. You can also get a pygmy puff.
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Place books on shelves. If you have a bookshelf, put your Harry Potter books on top, so people know you treasure them^{[4]
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- Display your Harry Potter books and movies. It looks best if the books are in hardcover. There are many ways to display them; you could put them all on the top shelf of a bookshelf, or even get a special shelf just for them. Put these books on a bookshelf for everyone to see. Try to be creative and have a nice design layout.
There are some other ideas too like taking a regular broomstick and painting it to look a little fancier, or for the spell books, put a fancy book cover on your books. You can also paint a stick to make it look like a wand if you don't have one.
You can draw your own or print some off the internet. You could even show off pictures of you. could also have photos of you in your Harry Potter Character Halloween costume.
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Hang Hogwarts robes in your closet. Or even better, have a hook somewhere outside your closet and hang the robes on that.
- If you put them in the closet make sure the closet doors are open when guests come over.
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Add in some really cool stuff. Have an old trunk like the ones they bring to Hogwarts? Set it near your bed and use it as a toy chest or a cage for Hedwig.^{[5]
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- Have a stuffed animal owl? Put it somewhere where people can see it.
- If you have a Harry Potter Wand, set it on your nightstand.
- You could even hang the model of a Firebolt or Nimbus 2000 on the wall.

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Making Up Other Rooms in Harry Potter Style

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Add Harry Potter accents to your kitchen.
- Use mugs and glasses with your house colors on them.
- Use cauldrons instead of bowls when having guests over. Serve drinks in the cauldrons.
All you need to do with the bathroom is put a Girl or Boy sign, and find a friendly ghost to be Moaning Myrtle.

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I want to do a Harry Potter room, but I'm worried my friends will tease me, as I'm nearly 14. What should I do?

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If your friends tease you because you are into Harry Potter, they are not good friends. I know many people who are in high school and college who love Harry Potter and would love a room like that. It is your room, not your friends', so you have the right to decorate it to suit your personality. That said, consider to what extent you will decorate, and ask yourself (and your parents, trust me they probably know you pretty well, even if you don't want to admit it) if this is a room that you will like by the time you are a senior in high school. This has nothing to do with what is "cool," but your own personal interests.

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What things could I use just to make a small Harry Potter section?

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Your bookshelf could become your shrine. You can place all your Harry Potter books, a few flasks with water and food coloring (try craft stores for the flasks!), homemade wands (check wikiHow to Make a Harry Potter Wand) and a copy of the Marauder's Map. You could try adding a figurine, small quotes in frames, printable candy boxes with beads in them, or a printable photo of Lily and James dancing, like the one that Harry has! You could add a quill and some ink, and a bit of parchment, as well as maybe a necklace with the Deathly Hallows sign, or a Snitch.

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How do I get a color theme when my walls are white and I can't paint them?

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You could find something colorful to cover the walls. That could include posters, tapestries, or even bed sheets. You can hang those on the wall using hooks or screws (but ask your parents to help you so you don't damage the walls).

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You can buy many Harry Potter related things, from light shades to duvet covers to wands and time turners! You name it, and if you look hard enough (or say Accio loudly enough) you will probably find it in Harry Potter!

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Check out a few blogs like Hogtimes (Wordpress) that have articles in them.

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You can make cool posters on your computer about all the quotes of the books and place them on your wall.

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Get a piece of plain paper. Wet a teabag and dab it all around the page. Wait for it to dry. Now it looks like the Maurader's Map! Write the quote, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," on it. Then decorate, and stick on your wall! Create loads of quote posters and your wall will be full!
Get a piece of cloth that has bricks painted on it and hang it from the top of your door so when you walk in, it looks like you're going into platform 9 3/4.
If you don't have much merch, put it all on a single Harry Potter shelf, instead of decorating your whole room.

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