In the past, couples who expected a baby started preparations as soon as they found out the gender of their child. There were only two options back then. If the baby was a girl, all of her items would be selected in pink tones, and for boys, it was the blue all around. Today, we are far past the idea. While any girl can like colors other than pink, any boy can be happy with any color other than blue. With the increasing number of options, it is now quite old-fashioned to stay stuck between two alternatives. What’s more, while choosing colors, parents consider how fast their children grow up and try to choose colors which their children can still like in the following years.
With the increasing options and the blue-pink duo taking a backseat, future parents now have more freedom and a much wider room of movement. However, choosing between more options to find the color which will make your baby the happiest can also prove to be a challenging task. If you find this so, you can take a look at these helpful ideas which we compiled for you.
Turn to Nature’s Colors
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• Turn to Nature’s Colors
• Balance Warm and Cold Tones
• Do Not Forget to add a Lively and Energetic Touch
• Add Creativity To Your Walls With Stickers and Pictures
• Choose Delible Anti-Bacterial Paint
• Heed Your Child’s Voice in Later Years
Trees, the grass, oceans and seas, the sky, rivers and forests… All four corners of the world is filled with thousand shades of blue and green. Nature’s calming and peaceful side never fails to reflect on the feelings you get when you are in a room of these colors. Shades of blue and green regulate blood pressure, calms down and makes it easier to focus. If you want to create a cool atmosphere in your child’s room, you can create different combinations with the shades of these colors. You can get away from the standard appearance of baby blue and set up different shares inside each other. So you’ll give another touch to your child’s development, enabling your child to meet visual differences.
Balance Warm and Cold Tones
Although shades of blue and green create an enjoyable atmosphere, we need warm colors as well to turn the children’s room into a kind and entertaining environment. In your furniture, you can go with warm colors to create contrast with the colors of your walls. Lively and bright colors have a stimulant effect, so they can create unrest as well, and break your child’s concentration when they start studying in their own room. However, you can use cold tones and lively colors in a balance. If you paint your walls red all along, your child will not react well to it. However, you can prefer a calming color and then use a red carpet or rug on the floor. So you get a balance which helps create a room where your child will feel happy.
Do Not Forget to add a Lively and Energetic Touch
Choosing pastel tones and light colors will make your children’s room have a more spacious, modern and brighter feel. However, your child will also need happy, lively and dynamic touches. At this point, you can paint of the walls, or part of a wall to a different color than the rest and give the room a bit of dash. As we explained above, you can go for livelier and brighter colors when choosing decorative items, furniture or accessories in the room. Do not forget that this is a children’s room and try to make selections which could reflect the colorful world of children.
Add Creativity To Your Walls With Stickers and Pictures
You probably remember phosphoric stars and moon stickers on ceilings from your childhood, how they glowed in the dark. With a little touch it was possible to feel like you were sleeping under the sky, and be crazy happy about it. Now we have far more advanced stickers and wall pictures; you can choose from hundreds. Keep in mind how vast children’s dream world is and that they can easily teleport to far far worlds just looking at a picture in their room. Take this as your foundation and decorate your child’s room in a style which will adorn their dreams and widen their imagination.
Choose Delible Anti-Bacterial Paint
As in the other parts of a home, health and hygiene are just as important when it comes to the walls of a children’s room. From the moment they first open their eyes to the world, they will spend lot of time in that room. When they grow up a bit, that space will be where your child sleeps, plays games and studies. For this reason, it is crucial to check what kind of properties do wall paints have before choosing your selection. For that you can use the below tips
• Water-based paint is odorless, so it does not harm anyone’s respiratory tract, allows for a faster return to normal life at home.
• Delible paints let you easily clean any accumulated dirt on the walls. Hence you can make your child’s room a healthier place. In addition, sometimes your little painter can skip papers and use the walls as canvas, so in that situation you can easily clean the walls.
• Delible paint types are satin paint, semi-glossy and acrylic (water-based) paint. You should consult a specialist to decide what type of paint can respond to the needs of your home. If a color, which you consider to be a great fit for you, is not in harmony with your walls, you won’t be able to get the result you want.
• Anti-bacterial paint is gradually gaining popularity, especially in children’s rooms. This type of paint prevents bacteria, mold and various microorganisms from holding on its surface, hence creating a much healthier room for you and your child. Especially if you have any allergies, and you believe that your child is genetically inclined to having allergic reactions, we suggest you to choose anti-bacterial paint.
Heed Your Child’s Voice in Later Years
You need to choose this before your child is born, and it is you who is deciding for the room decoration which you think will make them happy most. However, as much as you strive to guesstimate and create the most enjoyable and entertaining room for your child, they might just have a different perspective than you do. Do not forget that every child is a different person, and when they start to take a dislike to your preferences, do not take it personally.
As your child gets older, their taste and liking will also change. Since their room will be one of the places where they can express themselves the best, they might like to reflect these changes to their room. Give them this space so they can grow as a self-assured and self-confident individual. Changing the color of a wall can be costly and daunting, but it’s worth to give a voice to your child on the color of their room.
We shared some helpful tips with you earlier. However, when it comes to decoration the crucial is played by your creativity. Unleash your creativity before getting to work.