If you can have fun anywhere in a home, it’s a nursery! The room to captivate little minds from a young age, whilst creating a fun and engaging space for the whole family to enjoy.
Murals are one of the best ways to create a captivating space that are unique, personal and bring a little bit more to a space than standard paint can. Prepare to be inspired with over 20+ nursery mural ideas to choose from!
21 Beautiful Nursery Mural Ideas To Transform Your Little Ones Room
1.Circus Themed
I had to kick it off with one of my favourites of the bunch! I adore any scheme which considers and thinks about the ceiling (or as designers like to call it the ‘fifth wall’) as part of the design scheme.
This captivating circus mural draws your eye right up to the ceiling, with the fun design wrapping around the entirety of the room. Little kids will adore this sweet design.
2. Shapes and Colours
Bold colours and fun shapes make for a great nursery mural! Check out this one below on the crib wall, it will captivate baby from a young age, but it’s also a grown up enough design that can be enjoyed for a number of years too.
3. Wildlife
There’s something sweet about animals, forestry and wildlife and they make for a perfect and fitting wall mural!
Choose a soft, muted or forest green for the walls to base your wall mural on. If the idea of drawing and painting it yourself feels daunting, consider wallpaper murals instead which are a great alternative.
4. Peter Rabbit Inspired
What a darling idea! Peter Rabbit is enduringly popular and always a good idea for a nursery theme, how sweet is this one wall mural shown below?
5. Safari Theme
Or, perhaps you love a safari, jungle theme and know your little one will too!
Surrounding nursery walls with a safari inspired mural is fun, cozy and just think of all the wild adventures you’ll have, and the stories you’ll read to them in their nursery.
6. Cloud Ceiling
Here is another way that you can include the ceiling in your design plans, and it’s another one of my favourites!
So simple to achieve, but it totally transforms the nursery. Create a mural on the ceiling of a soft blue sky and clouds, the adorable hot air balloon ceiling light really adds to this whimsical feel.
7. Winnie The Pooh
It’s everyone’s favorite bear! A Winnie the Pooh inspired nursery is another super sweet, childhood favorite.
With the mural in place, bring it through to the furniture, teddies and bedding too.
8. Sunshine, Desert Vibes
If you’re decorating a north facing nursery or one which doesn’t get a whole lot of light, you might want to lean into a slightly warmer, more welcoming design like the one below!
This desert, sunshine fuelled mural is warm, inspiring and totally uplifting!
9. Fairytale Inspired
Or why not combine some fairytale classics for a fully encompassing wall mural that will be the perfect starting point for telling many fairytales in years to come!
This mural features a hot air balloon, teddies, dragons and even a beanstalk for so much to inspire and engage a little one.
10. Florals
Personalising your own wall mural is also a beautiful alternative. Theme it with flowers and a color of your choice, adding your little ones name to the center.
This is the perfect backdrop for placing a crib!
11. It’s Winnie and Friends!
Here’s another gorgeous Winnie The Pooh inspired mural idea, this time with Winnie and friends sat in the tree!
Using a darker wall color helps the mural to pop.
12. Forest Themed
Surround little one with forest! The most adorable woodland inspired mural which includes some of the most popular creatures, bears, foxes, owls, birds and deer!
13. Boho Inspired
Boho inspired nurseries are trending for 2025, they’re warm, uplifting and fun to be around.
Keeping a fairly neutral backdrop on the walls stops baby from being overstimulated, whilst tasteful, warm and earthy colors are used through this one wall mural.
14. In The Jungle
This gorgeous jungle mural features some of the main characters themselves! With a green leafy backdrop it creates a fun, tropical inspired nursery which little ones will love to be surrounded by.
15. Mountainous Mural
If the desert isn’t your style, how about showing a mountain range?
A gorgeous design incorporating cool and warm colors for an awe inspiring backdrop.
16. Sunshine
For a warm and uplifting nursery, spread the sunshine!
This gorgeous wall mural is one that is relatively easy to achieve without getting a professional in, add hearts or other decals to finish the room. Opt for a white or soft blue paint base to recreate this look.
17. Woodland Creatures
Instead of an entire wall, or nursery devoted to a mural, why not create a mural corner instead? Pull up some cozy cushions, teddies and books for the sweetest reading corner inspired by woodland creatures.
18. Songs of The Sea
Go down under with this adorable songs of the sea inspired mural.
With a sloped ceiling in this room, the mural totally lends itself to encompassing the whole room in a mural drenched way. No matter where you look, there is something to captivate here!
19. Celestial Inspired & Hot Air Balloons
Another mural drench idea is this celestial ceiling which gradients down to the sky and hot air balloons for such a fully encompassing feel in a nursery.
20. Subtle Mural
If you want something a little more understated but carries more character than paint, look no further than this subtle and neutral trees mural design below.
It’s not stimulating to baby and this would be a beautiful design idea in a darker nursery room, achieving a warm and welcoming feel all day long.
21. Sensory Black & White Mural
Black and whites images and graphics are beneficial to babies because of their developing visual system, so why not lean into a clever black and white mural like the below?
It’s easier to stimulate newborns as they can focus on the patterns, plus, as baby gets older, why not paint in different colors or create a different mural entirely?! The wall mural that will keep on giving.
