Sports

• If your son is into sports, then the choices for color are a little easier. You can select the colors of his favorite sports team, blue and white for the Indianapolis Colts, for example. Or you can opt to go with a sports theme not specific to a team, such as painting the entire room to look like a hockey rink. The important thing is to let him decide.
  
  

Colleges

• Similar to selecting a sports team to guide the room design, you could also select a college for color ideas. Perhaps your son has dreams of attending Virginia Tech, making maroon and orange the accent colors for the room. Since the full walls of the room don't have to be one specific color, consider only painting the bottom half of the wall with a color and leaving the top white, or painting each wall a different color.
  
  

Outdoors

• For a teen who loves the outdoors, painting the room to look like a campsite, forest or waterfall can be a good idea. Create the look of the sky on the ceiling with blue and white paint and a paint sponge. A series of leaves or animal tracks could also be stenciled along the walls. If you have the skill or know someone who does, you can paint a mural-like picture on one wall. For example, an avid teenage angler may enjoy having the image of a boat on the water with people fishing in it along one wall.
  
  

Rocker

• If a rock 'n' roll theme seems more up your son's alley, then you may find a lot of use for stylized or tribal-like stencils. Place black stencils along the top edge of the walls, or allow you son to paint pictures of instruments or musical scales along the walls. The same technique could be used with walls painted black by using silver or red stenciling on the walls.
  
  

Science

• For a teen boy with a mind for science, there are a number of options for things to paint on the walls. Anything from DNA strands to planets could be painted along one single wall or throughout the room on all of the walls. His walls could carry the look of abstract art by painting various amoebas, paramecia or hydras on the walls in multiple colors.