Squid Game Dorm Room Ideas: The Bunk Wall, the Colours, and How Far to Take It

The Squid Game dormitory is a striking piece of production design, and it’s a genuinely interesting one to adapt because everything about it is deliberately institutional — and institutional, softened slightly, is very close to the industrial style people already like.

The trick is knowing which parts to take literally and which to translate.

The three colours that define it

The show runs on an unusually tight palette:

• Teal green — the players’ tracksuits. The signature colour.
• Hot pink — the guards’ jumpsuits. Used sparingly and always as a shock.
• Grey concrete — everything else.

Plus black for masks, staircases, and steel. In a room, that translates to grey concrete-effect walls, one teal-green feature (bedding, a chair, a painted alcove), black metal hardware, and one small hot-pink object. The ratio matters: roughly 70% grey, 20% green, 10% black, and a single point of pink.

Getting the ratio wrong is what makes themed rooms look like costume shops. One pink item is striking; a pink wall is a different room entirely.

The bunk wall — the signature silhouette

The stacked steel bunks are what everyone remembers. You almost certainly don’t want to actually build a five-high bunk wall, and you don’t need to. What reads is the steel grid silhouette, not the beds.

Three ways to get it:

• A black or grey steel-frame bed with a visible tube structure — the closest single-object match.
• Open metal shelving stacked floor to ceiling on one wall, in black or raw steel. This is the most practical version and doubles as storage.
• A large-format photographic panel of the bunk wall on the wall behind the bed. Fully reversible, renter-safe.

Add numbered tags — small metal or enamel numbers on shelves or on the bed frame — and the reference lands without a single tracksuit.

Walls: bare concrete, or the look of it

The dormitory walls are unfinished concrete, and that texture matters more than the grey.

• Concrete-effect peel-and-stick panels or wallpaper on one wall.
• Microcement or textured roller paint in cool grey for a real finish.
• Exposed block or brick left sealed if you happen to have it.

Cool grey, not warm grey. This is one of the rare interiors where a cold tone is the correct choice.

Lighting: cold and institutional, with an escape hatch

The dorm is lit with flat, cold overhead light — realistic, and unpleasant to actually live under.

The workable compromise: keep a cold 4000K linear or strip fixture as the “theme” light, on its own switch, and install a second warm layer for evenings. That way the room photographs and feels like the dorm when you want it to, and is habitable the rest of the time.

Exposed conduit and a visible linear fixture do a lot of the industrial work on their own.

Furniture and materials

• Steel and tubular frames wherever possible.
• Plain, flat bedding in teal-green or grey — no patterns.
• Utility storage: metal lockers, stacking crates, industrial trolleys.
• Rubber, mesh, and galvanised finishes on small items.
• Exposed ducting and conduit, painted or left raw.

Skip upholstery, warm woods, and anything soft-edged — they fight the concept. If you want the industrial base without the show, the Industrial direction and our industrial loft design ideas guide cover the same materials in a warmer register.

The details worth adding

• Numbers: a stencilled number on a wall, locker, or bed frame. The single most efficient reference in the whole theme.
• A geometric shape motif — circle, triangle, square — as small wall art or hardware. Subtle and recognisable.
• A green tracksuit-tone throw at the foot of the bed.
• One hot-pink object: a lamp, a chair, a single framed print.

How far to take it

An honest note: the Squid Game dorm is designed to feel oppressive. A literal recreation is a cold, hard, uncomfortable room to sleep in.

The version that works long-term keeps the silhouette and palette and quietly fixes the liveability: warm second lighting layer, a large soft rug on the concrete-effect floor, and blackout curtains in a heavy fabric. You keep the look and lose the interrogation-room feeling.

Preview it on your own room

Cold grey and hard steel are high-risk in a small or dark bedroom. Test before you commit.

With Architectural AI, photograph your bedroom and restyle it into the Squid Game Dorm or Squid Game Dormitory in seconds, on your real walls. Compare it against a warmer industrial take and pick the one you’d actually sleep in. Start in the demo, browse the worlds catalog, or take a question to our AI designer. For other screen-inspired rooms, see our guide to sitcom and TV apartment decor.

The bottom line

Squid Game reads through three things: a steel grid silhouette, cool concrete texture, and a very strict colour ratio with one shock of pink. Take those, add a warm lighting layer the show doesn’t have, and you get a room that’s striking to look at and still liveable.

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FAQ

What does the Squid Game dorm look like? It is a vast industrial warehouse converted into a dormitory: a towering wall of stacked steel bunk beds, bare concrete floors and walls, exposed structure and ducting, cold institutional lighting, and numbered green tracksuits as the only strong colour. The pink of the guards and the teal-green of the players are the two signature accents.

What are the Squid Game colours? Three define the show: the players’ teal-green tracksuit, the guards’ hot pink jumpsuit, and the black of the masks and staircases, all against grey concrete. As a room scheme this becomes grey concrete-effect walls, a teal-green feature, black metal hardware, and one small hot-pink accent.

How do I get the bunk-wall look in a normal bedroom? You do not need real bunks. A black or grey steel-frame bed, an exposed metal shelving unit stacked to the ceiling, and a large photographic wall panel of the stacked bunks give the same silhouette. The theme reads from the steel grid and the numbering, not from actually sleeping in a bunk.

Can I see my room in the Squid Game style first? Yes. Architectural AI has Squid Game Dorm worlds that restyle a photo of your own bedroom into the dormitory in seconds. Since this theme leans cold and industrial, previewing on your real room is the quickest way to judge how much of it your space can carry.