Creating a nursery for your new baby needn't entail spending lots of money. With paint techniques you can make over a room with ease. Paint provides a quick and economical transformation that can be adapted or changed when your baby outgrows the dcor.
Color Schemes :
A plain bedroom can be given instant appeal with a carefully chosen color scheme. For your baby you might want a calm, traditional look, using pastel colors, such as pale yellows, blues and pinks. Pale colors can effectively complement traditional furniture such as a dark wooden cot, although bright colors can also go well with antique-style furnishings. If you want a bright, contemporary look for your baby's room, primary colors are always cheerful. For color inspiration you could take your lead from a picture or a quilt for your baby's cot.
Your baby isn't likely to mind which colors you choose, so it's about a color scheme that appeals to you. The time your baby spends in the nursery will mostly be spent sleeping and though color has emotional effects, your baby will be absorbing visual inputs from wherever s/he is, so don't get too serious about it. When creating visual interest in the nursery, remember that high contrast is more eye-catching and small detail will do more for you than your baby.
Creating Visual Interest
For your baby's nursery, color accents, murals and borders are easy ways to add visual interest. Reusable stencils, that can even be custom-made to the desired size, are an ideal choice. Whether you want an abstract design for a border or a particular motif, the choice today is huge.
Stencils can be used on walls and furnishings and even floors in a room without carpeting. Repetition of a motif on different surfaces can help create a coordinated look. Numbers, letters of the alphabet and other friezes will provide visual interest for a nursery and will have educational value as your baby grows.
For the ambitious, murals can be wonderfully effective. A wall displaying a fairy tale scene can look fabulous, if you have the skill to pull it off. Instead of using hard-to-remove stickers or transfers, even novice artists can reproduce cartoon characters in paint as wall decorations.
Babies like things that move and change and are entranced by things as simple as the play of light. You can paint directly on to window glass with special stained glass paint, with scintillating effects.
Miscellaneous Tips
- Any bedroom should have an element of tranquility. Too much detail, too many motifs and a riot of color can spoil the effect.
- You can transform a room even without going to town on the walls. Accents and clever touches can have the same effect. Adding color and/or motifs to furniture and fittings will take you a long way. Doors, door, window, picture and mirror frames, pelmets and the like are all amenable to paint treatments that can transform your plain room into a proper nursery.
- It may seem obvious, but make sure the paints you use are non-toxic. - 15359
Color Schemes :
A plain bedroom can be given instant appeal with a carefully chosen color scheme. For your baby you might want a calm, traditional look, using pastel colors, such as pale yellows, blues and pinks. Pale colors can effectively complement traditional furniture such as a dark wooden cot, although bright colors can also go well with antique-style furnishings. If you want a bright, contemporary look for your baby's room, primary colors are always cheerful. For color inspiration you could take your lead from a picture or a quilt for your baby's cot.
Your baby isn't likely to mind which colors you choose, so it's about a color scheme that appeals to you. The time your baby spends in the nursery will mostly be spent sleeping and though color has emotional effects, your baby will be absorbing visual inputs from wherever s/he is, so don't get too serious about it. When creating visual interest in the nursery, remember that high contrast is more eye-catching and small detail will do more for you than your baby.
Creating Visual Interest
For your baby's nursery, color accents, murals and borders are easy ways to add visual interest. Reusable stencils, that can even be custom-made to the desired size, are an ideal choice. Whether you want an abstract design for a border or a particular motif, the choice today is huge.
Stencils can be used on walls and furnishings and even floors in a room without carpeting. Repetition of a motif on different surfaces can help create a coordinated look. Numbers, letters of the alphabet and other friezes will provide visual interest for a nursery and will have educational value as your baby grows.
For the ambitious, murals can be wonderfully effective. A wall displaying a fairy tale scene can look fabulous, if you have the skill to pull it off. Instead of using hard-to-remove stickers or transfers, even novice artists can reproduce cartoon characters in paint as wall decorations.
Babies like things that move and change and are entranced by things as simple as the play of light. You can paint directly on to window glass with special stained glass paint, with scintillating effects.
Miscellaneous Tips
- Any bedroom should have an element of tranquility. Too much detail, too many motifs and a riot of color can spoil the effect.
- You can transform a room even without going to town on the walls. Accents and clever touches can have the same effect. Adding color and/or motifs to furniture and fittings will take you a long way. Doors, door, window, picture and mirror frames, pelmets and the like are all amenable to paint treatments that can transform your plain room into a proper nursery.
- It may seem obvious, but make sure the paints you use are non-toxic. - 15359
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