Choosing Colors For A Child’s Room
Pink for a girl and blue for a boy!!
This is the standard colour combination which all of us come up with either when dressing our child or decorating their room.
However, let us move beyond these yardsticks and think of so many other colours for our kid’s room.
Orange and purple are colours which always look bright and lively. These are nice colours which can be splashed on one wall, to highlight some parts of the room. A lighter lilac on the walls, with a darker purple on just one wall are sure to make the room look cheerful.
If your child has a favourite colour, even if it is deep royal blue, do try to incorporate it somewhere in the room. Maybe you can paint his chest of drawers in that colour, or just do the headrest of the bed in a deep shade. Let him feel that he helped choose the colours and that his opinion matters!!
All paint in the room must be washable. Children will at some stage of their lives write on the walls – they cannot resist the temptation. Beds and chairs will have crayon and paint marks on them, and the carpet – the less about that the better!
Hence, do not look for expensive paints, remember you are going to have to paint the kids room more often than the rest of the house. Factor in this extra cost when you begin choosing paints and colours for them.
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Kids sure do write on walls, that’s a given. Trust me I learned the hard way.
Comment by Full Size — February 4, 2010 @ 9:19 pm
My children had drawn and painted an entire forest on my patio wall – beautifully done – but what a mess was left behind.
I am waiting for their children to do the same to them!!
Comment by milly — February 6, 2010 @ 9:58 am