Skateboard Bedroom Ideas: Deck Walls, Storage and Decor

The skateboard bedroom ideas that work aren't wallpaper covered in boards: they're a proper deck wall with a plan behind it, a real place on the wall for the board that gets ridden and for the helmet, and materials that feel like a skatepark, which means wood, metal and concrete. Here they are piece by piece: five ways to arrange the wall, where to keep the boards in use, a shelf made from an old deck, colours, lighting, the rug and a fingerboard corner, posters, and what changes with age and budget.

The deck wall: five layouts

The deck wall is the centrepiece of a skater's room. Old boards worn down to nothing, decks picked for their graphics or a custom one: what makes the difference is the layout. Five that work:

1. In a row

Two, three or four upright decks side by side, lined up along the top, with the same gap between each: 10 to 15 cm. It's the simplest layout and the most forgiving. Above a bed, a desk or a chest of drawers, it reads as one piece. Line them up by the top edge, not the bottom: that's the line the eye follows. Above furniture, leave 20 to 30 cm between the furniture and the bottom of the decks.

2. Stepped

Each deck a little higher than the one before, always by the same amount. It's the staircase layout, and it also suits a loft bedroom with a sloping ceiling, where it follows the slope instead of fighting it. The trick: the line through the tops of the decks has to run parallel to the stairs or the ceiling, or the whole thing looks crooked.

3. A grid

Decks turned horizontal, in columns and rows, with the same gap both ways. This is the collector's layout: every board they've worn out, from the first to the latest, telling the story of their skating. A grid copes with very different graphics, because the regular frame holds it together. Plan it where the wall is wide, above a chest of drawers or a desk.

4. On the diagonal

Several decks tilted at the same angle, parallel, with their centres on one line. It's the most dynamic of the five: they look as if they're moving. It needs precision, because an angle that changes from one deck to the next shows straight away. Cut a cardboard template at the angle you want and hold it against each deck before fixing it.

5. One deck, on its own

A single deck, horizontal above the headboard or upright beside the door, with something that matters to whoever sleeps there: their name in big letters, a photo of their crew at the skatepark, a drawing of their own. Centre it on the furniture, not on the wall. This is where a personalised deck with a name or one made from their photo earns its place (more on that below).

Before you drill

• Try it on the floor. Lay the decks out in the layout you've chosen, adjust the gaps and take a photo.
• Then try it on the wall, in paper. Trace each deck on brown paper, cut it out and stick the templates up with masking tape. You see the real thing, fix it without a single extra hole, and mark the drill points through the paper.
• Graphic side out. The design is printed on the underside of the deck; the griptape, if there is any, goes against the wall.
• Two fixing points per deck, never one: a wall mount, or two screws through the truck holes with a spacer behind each, because the nose and tail curve up towards the wall. The three methods are in how to hang a skateboard on the wall.
• Above a bed, screws and the right wall plugs, not adhesive. And in a young child's room, nothing above the bed at all: more on that below.

One picture can also be split across several decks hung side by side, in a row but much closer together than in the first layout: a landscape, a group photo, a big drawing. In the editor, the “…” menu at the bottom left lets you choose from 2 to 10 decks, and they line up with the narrow gap you'll need to keep on the wall for the picture to carry on from one deck to the next. It's one design and one order, with one shipping charge, and each deck costs the same as a single one, so 267 € for three. Choosing the picture and hanging the set are covered in skateboard triptych wall art.

Where to keep the board that gets ridden

The board in use, trucks and wheels and all, tends to end up under the bed or across the hallway. Giving it a place on the wall is storage and decor at once:

• A horizontal rack. Two arms fixed to the wall that the board rests on: it becomes something on display, and it comes down one-handed on the way out. For several boards there are racks with more than one level.
• A vertical hook. The board hangs by one truck, standing upright against the wall. It takes up hardly any width: the answer for narrow rooms and hallways.
• A pegboard. A panel with holes and hooks you can move around: board, helmet, pads and skate tool in one place, and the layout changes whenever they feel like it.

Put the rack at a height where they can take the board down without standing on a chair, and give the wheels a wipe before it goes above a pale wall or a bed: they've been on the street. Skip the damp garage or shed for a board that gets ridden, too: bearings don't like damp.

A shelf made from an old deck

A worn-out deck, or one whose graphic is too scuffed to show off, makes a very good shelf, and its shape does some of the work: griptape side up, the nose and tail rise at each end like bookends, and the griptape stops things sliding.

1. Take the trucks off and keep the bolts.
2. Fix two brackets to the wall, level, with plugs that suit your wall: plasterboard, brick and concrete each need their own. Space them so they sit under the two sets of truck holes.
3. Screw the deck to the brackets through the holes it already has: the truck bolts and their nuts do the job if the bracket holes line up. If not, wood screws from underneath, shorter than the deck is thick, so they don't poke through the griptape.

It's a shelf for light things: paperbacks, a plant, a speaker, a fingerboard collection. A deck is slightly dished across its width (that's the concave), so it isn't a perfectly flat surface. And if a board has snapped cleanly in two, each half, once the break is sanded, makes a small bedside shelf on two small brackets.

Colours and materials: wood, metal, concrete

The decks already bring plenty of colour and pattern, so the rest of the room does better staying calm, with a single strong colour. Three materials are enough to give it the feel of a skatepark:

• Concrete, or the look of it. One wall in concrete-effect paint behind the bed or the deck wall, a grey rug, cement plant pots. It's the skatepark floor, and a neutral background that makes the graphics stand out.
• Metal. A black metal bed frame or shelving, a locker-style cabinet for clothes. It echoes ramps and rails.
• Wood. A deck is maple: a desk or shelves in exposed plywood, or a raw wood headboard, go well with it.

Choose the strong colour together with whoever sleeps in the room, on one wall or in touches: a blanket, a lamp, a stool. And rather than skateboard-print wallpaper or bedding, which date quickly, let real decks carry the theme: when their taste changes, you swap a deck, not the whole room.

Lighting

• Light from the side on the deck wall. An adjustable spotlight or a floor lamp turned towards the wall: light that grazes the wall picks out the curve of the nose and tail and the shadow each deck throws.
• An LED strip behind the decks. The spacers leave a small gap between deck and wall: an LED strip stuck to the wall in that gap puts a glow around each deck. Go for warm white and a low-voltage strip with its own power supply, and run the cable along the skirting board.
• No direct sun on the decks. Like any print, the colours fade over time in daily sunshine, so avoid the wall facing a big window.

The rug and a fingerboard corner

The rug ties the wall to the floor. Three ways to go: a plain or flecked grey rug that recalls concrete; a long deck-shaped rug at the foot of the bed; or a low-pile, washable one if skate shoes come into the room.

A fingerboard, the miniature skateboard ridden with two fingers, deserves a corner of its own: the end of a desk, or a board on two trestles, with a few obstacles such as a small ramp, a rail and a ledge. The obstacles can be made from wood offcuts, and the fingerboard collection fits on a small wall shelf.

Posters and free-to-use images

Next to the decks, a few framed pictures finish the wall. Two sources that cost next to nothing:

• Their own photos. Their best session shots, their crew at the skatepark, the local spot: printed large at a photo lab and simply framed, they beat most posters. If friends are in them, it's best they're happy with it.
• Public domain works. Museums, libraries and public agencies put high-resolution images online that can be reused: Japanese woodblock prints, old maps, botanical plates, space photos. Each archive has its own terms; where to find them and what each allows is in where to get artwork for a custom deck.

The same image can end up on a deck, too: a tall old print sits very well in that shape. And for something handmade, transferring a photo onto wood gives you a small picture to make yourself.

The helmet and pads

A helmet with a place of its own gets found on the way out. A hook by the bedroom door, at the height of whoever wears it, and an open basket underneath for knee pads, elbow pads and wrist guards: open, so the pads dry out after a session instead of sitting shut in a box.

According to Consumer Reports' guide to bike helmet care, a helmet should be kept somewhere cool and dry, away from extreme heat (a car boot, for instance), and decorating it with paint can degrade its materials: so no repainting it to match the room.

By age

For a child

• Nothing above the bed. In a young child's room, or a baby's (skateboard nursery decor is a thing too), the decks go on another wall, out of reach, each held by two screws. A deck that comes loose must not be able to land on the pillow: that's our advice, as it would be for a heavy picture frame.
• Everything at their height: the helmet hook, the pad basket, the board rack. If they can put things away on their own, they will.
• Their drawing on a deck. A felt-tip drawing, photographed flat in daylight near a window, becomes a deck they'll keep. More ideas in skateboard design ideas.

For a teenager

• They choose. A teenager's room decorated by their parents doesn't last long. Offer a framework (the layout, a colour, a budget) and leave the content to them: their decks, their photos, their pictures.
• A pegboard or a horizontal rack for the everyday board, the helmet and the tool: everything put away, and everything on show.
• A desk that stays a desk, with a proper lamp for homework: the skate decor goes around it, not on it.
• A deck with their name or a photo of their crew as the centrepiece, which also makes a good gift.

For an adult or a shared student flat

• Renting? Adhesive mounts, checking the maximum weight on the pack, and shelving that stands on the floor save you drilling. Never adhesive above a bed.
• Less, but better. One standout deck, horizontal above the bed or the sofa, and the everyday board on a rack: it's the room of an adult who skates, not a teenager's room. In a shared flat, everyone's board on a vertical hook in the hallway frees up the bedrooms.

On a small budget

Old decks are free: their own, their friends', or ones the local skate shop is happy to get rid of (asking costs nothing). They make the grid wall or the shelf. Add one repainted wall, concrete-effect or a strong colour, which changes the room more than any object, free-to-use images printed at a photo lab, and fingerboard obstacles from wood offcuts. Keep the real spending for the centrepiece: that's where a custom deck does the most for the money.

A custom deck as the centrepiece

A custom deck from us is a real 7-ply Canadian maple deck with your design printed on the underside: a name, a photo, a drawing. You put it together in the editor, look at it in 3D before deciding, and choose the width in the same place, with every size at the same price. It's 89 €. Shipping is free in Spain, 20 € per order to Ireland, and from 15 € to the rest of the EU depending on the country; we don't ship to Northern Ireland or anywhere else in the UK. Outside Spain we don't give a delivery time: the deck is printed when you order it, so if it's for a birthday or Christmas, order with time to spare.

It arrives on its own: no wall mount is included. And because it's a real deck, it can come off the wall one day: griptape, trucks and wheels are optional extras, and the griptape comes fitted if you add it. For the rest of the setup, see the beginner's guide to a first skateboard. And the same deck for two bedrooms is one order of several copies, from 1 to 19, with one shipping charge. For more ways to use a deck on a wall elsewhere in the house, see skateboard wall art ideas.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

Storing and painting a helmet: Consumer Reports, “The Do's and Don'ts of Bike Helmet Care” (updated April 2017), accessed October 2026. The gaps and heights for hanging decks are decorating rules of thumb, not regulations.