We put this in our three year old daughters room. Its perfect for a little girl and also not overly juvenile so it could work as she gets older. She happens to have pink walls but even if she wanted to paint them in future years this rug would work well as an accent since there are other colors in the pattern you could go with. Definitely get a rug pad. Even with us having one and the rug being secured with furniture, it moves a bit here and there, plus it is on the thinner side.