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Library decor helps children feel welcome, curious, and excited to explore. A well-themed environment can turn a routine library visit into an imaginative experience, helping young readers connect books with adventure, discovery, and play.

IDS creates immersive library spaces using murals, dimensional elements, themed seating areas, signage, and interactive features. These design elements can define reading zones, improve wayfinding, support storytime and learning activities, and encourage children to spend more time reading and engaging with the library.

Some of the most popular themes for children’s libraries include:

• Enchanted forests and woodland animals – Create a warm, storybook atmosphere with trees, friendly creatures, and nature-inspired reading areas.
• Outer space – Rockets, planets, astronauts, and galaxies make libraries feel adventurous and inspire interest in science.
• Under the sea – Ocean animals, coral reefs, submarines, and underwater scenery add color and imagination to the space.
• Jungle and safari – Tropical plants and animals create an energetic setting for exploration and discovery.
• Castles and fantasy worlds – Dragons, towers, magical forests, and fairytale details help bring stories to life.
• Local and community themes – Designs inspired by nearby landmarks, history, wildlife, or school mascots give the library a unique identity.

IDS can carry a theme throughout murals, dimensional features, bookcase ends, signage, storytime areas, and themed seating—or create one standout focal area within the library.

Yes. A library does not always need to replace its existing furniture to create a themed environment. IDS can design around current shelving, walls, columns, circulation desks, and seating.

Murals, shelf-end graphics, dimensional accents, signs, and coordinated colors can help existing features feel like part of one cohesive design.

Yes, all IDS products have a Limited Lifetime Warranty against defects in materials and workmanship.

All electronics supplied by IDS have a manufacturer’s warranty.

Contact our Creative Consultants for more detailed information on our warranty.

Most library theming projects take six to nine months from start to finish — from concept drawings through to installation. The exact timeline depends on the complexity of the theme and the scope of decor involved.

It is much shorter if you select pre-designed items from our IDS Essentials™ Collection.

Imagination Design Studios (IDS Kids) works with libraries across the United States and Canada, and we ship our themed decor worldwide (we have installed themed environments across the Unted Kingdom, throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and beyond).

Within North America we can send our own installation team; anywhere else, we create products designed for self-installation or coordinate with a local contractor — so we can bring a themed environment to your space wherever you are.

The best areas to theme are the spaces children notice first and use most often, including:

• Library entrance – Creates a strong first impression and introduces the theme.
• Circulation desk – Turns a central service area into a memorable focal point.
• Children’s section – Makes the space more inviting, imaginative, and engaging.
• Storytime area – Builds an immersive setting for reading and group activities.
• Reading nooks – Creates cozy destinations where children can settle in with a book.
• Seating areas – Adds visual interest while defining comfortable reading zones.
• Bookcase ends – Uses highly visible surfaces for themed graphics, signs, or dimensional elements.

IDS can connect these areas with coordinated murals, themed signage, custom displays, dimensional features, and imaginative seating elements.

IDS can turn an ordinary seating area into a memorable reading destination by surrounding it with themed graphics, dimensional scenery, decorative structures, and visual focal points. A bench can become part of a forest hideaway, a space station, an underwater scene, or a storybook setting. These themed seating areas help define quiet-reading zones and make children more excited to settle in with a book.

Yes. IDS can use themed landmarks, colors, characters, and signage to help visitors understand the layout of the library.

Different visual treatments can identify areas such as picture books, early readers, chapter books, STEM resources, computers, storytime, and quiet reading.

This makes the library easier to navigate, especially for younger visitors.

A few things drive the cost of a theming project: the size of the space, how many rooms are themed, whether the decor is custom or selected from our pre-designed IDS Essentials™ Collection, and the complexity of the murals and three-dimensional elements. Custom, fully immersive themes sit at the higher end; pre-designed pieces are a budget-friendly way to get a strong effect for less.