Tips Choosing Colour for Children Rooms

Children respond to bright colors. Even if the walls are white or pale pastel you can add bright accents on window and door trims, furniture, rugs and painted modular storage units. For a soft theme, paint the walls pale yellow. This is a good, safe color for a boy or girl. You can then add accents in sherbet colors like pistachio and melon for the curtains and crib set. If the floor isn’t in good condition, paint it a light color and apply a spatter paint treatment using a variety of pastel col-ors. This is a practical way to treat the floors in a child’s room. Deck or yacht paint is sold specially for floors.

If you want a bright color scheme, you can’t go wrong with shiny paint in primary colors on the walls and furniture. Be sure that the paint you use is lead free. Color can be added with wallpaper, and you’ll find designs in every conceivable theme, from favorite Disney characters to bicycles racing around a border. All the Beatrix Potter characters and illustrations are represented in wallpaper designs as well, if this is your idea of the perfect nursery theme.

If saving money is key, apply a fanciful stencil to the walls. This is a great way to express yourself and create a delightful room with a simple or extremely lavish design. It’s easy and the design can be painted over when it is no longer suitable. A wide variety of pre-cut stencils and materials are available in all craft and art supply stores.

Aside from stencils, there are kits consisting of die-cut images, much like Colorforms, that you simply press onto the walls. The elements are provided for creating your own wall border or an entire scene in a variety of themes, such as animals, rainbows, flowers or cartoon characters. When you want to remove them, just peel them away. They leave no marks on the wall. The 3M Company makes an extensive line of wall decorations in kits that include a wide border strip long enough to go around an average-size room, and all the decorating elements. For example, the border for a zoo theme will include a colorful background strip representing a zoo-like environment and kangaroos, elephants, zebras, monkeys and more that can be placed anywhere on the border as well as here and there on the wall.