Children's Rooms

Decorating children's rooms give you a unique opportunity to use you and your child's imagination and to try things that you would not try in other areas of the house.  Paint can be changed with little effort or expense but can go along way to enhance children's rooms.  

Colorful Kids Rooms

by the Paint Quality Institute

Welcoming children’s rooms are spaces that encourage a growing child’s imagination. Consider allowing your child to choose a bedroom theme that expresses their unique personality. Once the theme has been selected, the bedroom color scheme will naturally follow.

As growing children’s rooms can be decorated and redecorated up to five times during their years at home, it is practical to opt for an inexpensive method of decorating. Paint affords an easy, inexpensive decorating tool that provides a rainbow of exciting colors and creative possibilities for children.

As children’s room tend to be heavily used, it is imperative that a high quality, washable paint be used in order to remove handprints, food stains, crayons and markers. Manufacturers have designed "child-friendly" children’s paints that feature bold colors, chalk paints or other specialty products.

The use of bright, bold color is especially attractive in children’s rooms. Primary colors are classic favorites for both boys and girls. Contemporary color favorites include purples, vibrant blues, pinks, yellows and greens. If your goal is to select a color scheme that your child will not soon outgrow, consider taking the "neutral plus color approach", which presents neutral wall coverings with bold painted trim. In this case, the trim color can feature any hue from traditional favorites (such as navy or red) to trendy newcomers (including the "sherbet" brights).

There are endless color-related projects that help to create inviting children’s rooms. Decorative stencils and stamps that coordinate with a designated theme can be applied to all design elements including window coverings, wall coverings, floor coverings and furnishings. Free hand painted murals accentuates a theme and serves as a dramatic focal point within the space. Painted ceilings (the rooms "fifth wall") can highlight a theme or serve as a point of interest, depicting everything from soft clouds to bright stars and interesting maps. Wall coverings can be transformed into functional design elements, including chalkboards for drawing, corkboards that display calendars and notes or "magnetic" painted walls which highlight artwork.