How to Design a Gender Neutral Room for Your Toddler (and Make Sure They Like It!)

Why Gender Neutral Works for Toddlers

Toddlers have big personalities and changing tastes. Designing their room in a gender-neutral style gives you more room to adapt as their interests grow — without redecorating every year.

Let Them Help Choose

Even young toddlers can feel proud when they’ve “helped” design their space. Offer them 2–3 choices for bedding, rugs, or wall art. You keep control of the style, but they feel ownership.
Child playing with toys on a table in a room with shelves and decor.
Child standing on a bed with a colorful painting on the wall.

Choose Flexible Furniture

Toddler beds that convert to full beds, modular storage units, and neutral dressers all adapt easily as your child grows.

Toddler bed pictured

Use Wall Art to Add Fun (Without Overcommitting)

Rather than painting the walls in bold colours or themes your toddler might outgrow, bring in personality through playful animal prints. Lions, bunnies, baby seals — these timeless favourites appeal to both boys and girls and can be swapped or rearranged easily.
Children's bedroom with a bed featuring colorful pillows and a framed illustration of a beluga whale on the wall.
Children's playroom with a teepee, stools, and framed pictures on a white wall.

Add Interactive Décor

Chalkboard panels, low bookshelves, and soft play mats make the room functional and inviting. These can be in neutral tones to blend with the rest of the design.

Keep It Organised

Toddlers are natural collectors (read: hoarders of tiny random objects). Baskets, bins, and under-bed drawers in neutral tones help keep the chaos under control while keeping the aesthetic intact.
Storage bins labeled 'Craft', 'Paint', 'Games', and 'Pretend Play' in a wooden organizer.