Category Children’s room decor

The design of a personal room changes as the child grows up, and curtains in the nursery – a significant and expressive detail of interior design. They have a functional, practical purpose and create a special atmosphere in the room. What rules govern when selecting curtains – today our material.

Important points when choosing curtains for the nursery

Even as a tiny person, at the age of 3-4 years old child is aware of himself as a person. The preferences are formed, and he can already express what he likes. Despite his young age, you should pay close attention to the child’s preferences in color, shapes and images. It is these details should be properly reflected in the individual elements of the interior, including curtains. 

Curtains in the children’s room from a functional point of view are:

• Practicality. Curtains are better to make a simple cut. Multilayered designs should be avoided, the window should “breathe”, and the fabric – do not collect dust and easy to wash.
• Adjustment of light flow. For children under 6 years of age, compulsory daytime sleep is recommended, so it is better to use combined curtains. For example, blinds, vertical curtains in combination with light fabric canvases. During the day, during sleep, darken the room with vertical curtains. When the baby is awake, fill the room with light.

Also when choosing curtains you should pay attention to such factors:

• Orientation to the sides of the world. Windows facing southeast should be slightly shaded. Use denser curtains. A room with an exit to the northwest requires additional light, respectively, light curtains are needed.
• Window size. A small window opening should visually expand. To do this, curtains are made wider than the window opening, or use adjustable vertical blinds plissé, rims. Visually raise the aperture of a small window can be achieved by using a vertical pattern.
• Eco-friendliness of materials. These are linen, cotton cloths, combinations with synthetic fiber. Such curtains are less crumpled. Special impregnations make the material resistant to pollution, the curtains absorb less dust. Antistatic impregnations are used to treat synthetics.
• Durability of designs. The baby’s room is a territory for play. Curtains in the nursery are no exception. The child can hide behind them, swing. Reliable fixation will prevent injuries. Do not recommend the use of sharp tips, heavy metal curtain rods.
• Length of curtains. It is not recommended to hang the cloths falling on the floor – a child might cling to them. The optimal length of the curtains – just below the window sill, or about 10-15 centimeters from the floor.

The aesthetic design depends on the style. In children’s rooms, unlike rooms for adults, use a more vibrant and saturated colors, expressive drawings. Popularly themed children’s: space, sea, Lego-constructor, Barbie dolls, the world of animals. Themes are reflected in the color design of curtains for children’s rooms. Earlier there was a conventional gradation, the boy’s room was decorated in a range of blue, blue shades, and for girls chose pastel shades of pink. 

Psychologists have noticed that color preference depends less on the gender of the child – more on the nature, temperament and preferences. The interpretation of modern design is not tied to the gender of the child, focused on the individuality of the character. Curtains in the children’s room are chosen on the basis of another of their purposes – to create comfort and a good mood.

Modern options for a boy and a girl

The trend in the design of the children’s room in the modern interpretation – to expand as much as possible, to free up space. Furniture – light colors, simple geometric shapes combined with bright details. Curtains in the children’s room often act as an accent, complement the interior. Modular furniture that is easy to rearrange, tables and beds transformers are welcome.

The room for girls

Pastel colors with bright inclusions in the textile design, interior details prevail.

Variants of curtains in the nursery for a girl, with a soft lambrequin:

• Glamorous details: bows, ruffles, ruffles;
• prints with drawings of flowers, plants, fruits, polka dots;
• vertical curtains, Austrian, French, English;
• photocurtains;
• Laconic lambrequin with applique, for example, in the form of flowers;
• gauze (thread-like curtains);
• Curtains-beads as a supplement to the main curtains.

Complement the ensemble with interesting underpinnings in the idea of flowers, bows. Look interestingly soft toys-snatches. 3D-printed curtains revive the interior. As an image choose fairy tale subjects, floral motifs. 

The color of the curtains is duplicated in the textile design: bed linen, pillows, chair covers, bedside mats.

It is interesting to look themed room. Assume the development of a concept, part of which are curtains. Most often it is a princess room, Barbie dolls, floral motifs.

Curtains in a boy’s room

Curtains in a boy’s room, as a rule, are more laconic. Suitable for the design of the window opening Roman curtains. Prints with drawings of planes, cars, spaceships.

Thematic concept for boys: marine, space, sports, robotics. In such a design solution will fit photo blinds.

Organically look in the interior of the room for the boy curtains with vertical stripes.

For the attachment of curtains, it is recommended to use reliable elements. Optimal options:

• ties, you can have a different color from the curtains;
• eyelets, rings in the curtains;
• loops;
• a curtain sleeve, a pocket through which the tube of the curtain track is passed;
• braid, stitched curtain tape;
• rings.

Stylistic design

Design stylistic decoration in the nursery may not be as pronounced as in other rooms. Rather use individual elements, the emphasis is made on thematic design.

Among the modern trends in window decoration:

• the use of natural materials;
• window opening design with fabric blinds with drawings;
• blinds made of natural fabrics, burlap, bamboo, straw;
• trendy plisse curtains.

There is a wide range of fabrics and accessories for window arrangement in the nursery for every style.

Color solutions

Gamma pink, lavender, turquoise, and fuchsia colors are suitable for the interior of a girl’s room. They are soft, have a positive effect on the child’s psyche, soothing.

Yellow color “warms” the room. Suitable for windows oriented to the northwest. Sunny golden tones combine with a range of gray, green, beige, cream colors. Yellow is stimulating, uplifting.

The spectrum of blue and blue colors is associated with marine themes. It is noted that this color scheme positively influences the child’s nervous system. As a rule, boys are more active, perhaps that’s why the colors of this gamma prevail in the design of the rooms.

Bright, juicy colors used in certain parts of the interior, they should not prevail in the nursery, as act inflammatory. Bright colors are present in drawings, details, applications on curtains.

Age transformation of the interior

Children’s room dynamically changes as the child grows up. It is not economically beneficial to modify the entire interior as it grows. It’s easier to replace the curtains, wallpaper, wall coloring – and the room will be transformed. From a pragmatic point of view, it is better to buy furniture without pronounced elements of “childishness”, then it will easily fit into a renovated interior. The desire for change is clearly manifested in adolescence. Children strive to assert themselves, to confirm their status as an adult personality.

Variants of curtains for teenagers:

• Blinds: vertical, horizontal. Preference should be given to fabric types. Thanks to a special impregnation, they do not get dirty. There is a wide range of colors on the market.
• Roller blinds, which are collected in a roll.
• Blinds-plisse. Their advantage is that they are vertically adjustable at the top and bottom.
• Japanese blinds. The fixed fabric moves on special guides.
• Ordinary curtains of pastel, neutral tones.

The window decoration echoes the pattern of wallpaper, the upholstery of frameless poufs, the bedspread.

Curtains in the children’s room – a bright and expressive element of the interior. Select under the stylistics, as well as the thematic design of the room. Should take into account the child’s preferences, then he will be comfortable. The modern market of textile materials offers a large selection of fabrics, materials, accessories for curtains in the nursery. 

Carpets always give comfort and coziness to a room. Crawling and walking on a soft, beautiful rug is much more pleasant and safe for your child than on a hard floor. As a child grows and develops, he spends most of his time on the floor. A rug also provides protection for the child’s room (from the cold in winter, and from the heat in summer). It is quieter and protects your child’s sleep. 

Carpet for children’s room

Carpet should be environmentally friendly, as the child is in contact with it during the play. The carpet content of chemicals that can cause unwanted reactions of the child’s body should be minimized.

Doctors advise acquiring carpets for children made of artificial or mixed fibres, which have hypoallergenic properties. Such products do not accumulate static electricity, are easy to clean, and are resistant to dirt, moisture and mold, and are not exposed to bacteria and insects.

It is better to choose a soft medium-density rug with a medium or short pile, as long pile accumulates dust and dirt to a greater extent.

The age of the child

When choosing a rug for a child’s room, you need to consider the age of the child. As the child grows, so do the rugs.

• For a child’s room of up to 2-3 years old, the carpet must be a bright coloring with a pattern: this helps the child to learn about the world around them.
• For children 3-9 years old, the carpet becomes a “playing field.
• In the room of a schoolboy or schoolgirl, it turns into an element of interior decor, harmonizing with the overall style of the room. In this case, a rug with geometric figures or lines, or a monochrome rug of a neutral color will do. You can also use a rug with a longer pile in a modern abstract design. 

Carpet sizes

According to the size of the carpets are divided into:

• small – up to 2,5 sq.m,
• medium – from 2,5 to 6 sq.m,
• large – from 6 sq.m. and more.

Designer Tips

1. Small rugs are usually used in certain places in the nursery – in front of the crib, for stacking toys, changing the baby, they put the potty. 
2. A medium-sized rug is already becoming an independent element of nursery decor, drawing attention to a particular area of the room. These carpets create a more comfortable children’s play area.
3. In a teenager’s school-age child’s room, a medium-sized carpet becomes a central element of the interior. This direction is now intensively developing in Europe. Here the rugs are created with the use of sports or musical themes, for example a bright multi-colored carpet, a skateboard rug, or a carpet with a race car.
4. Carpet sizes of 2m x 3m and larger form the overall look of the nursery. He is an important, and usually the main detail of the interior. Therefore choose these rugs more carefully and for a longer period.
5. When selecting the size of the carpet, you must remember that from the furniture (wall) to the carpet must remain 20-30 cm free floor space. Then the product will be visible in the room as an independent element of design, and not look like a carpet.
6. In one room you can use several mats, but of the same type. With a successful choice of pattern and size, such a combination can become a highlight of the design of the nursery. 

Recommendations

1. The right choice of pattern and palette of children’s carpet creates a good mood for you and the child. Babies are interested in playing on a bright rug with their favorite characters from fairy tales or cartoons. Bright colors and filling with different details and/or familiar characters stimulate a child’s interest in looking at and remembering the images on the rug. 
2. As the child grows, the design of the rug also changes – from fairy tales to teenage themes. Here the carpet is already turning from an educational tool into the center of the interior, emphasizing the individuality of the emerging personality. Therefore, depending on the particular preferences of the owner can be found as a carpet with a modern abstract design, and products with musical or sports themes. 
3. If part of a common room is used as a children’s room, the rug serves to highlight the play area. You can, on the contrary, put one large rug, but with a neutral pattern, suitable for both adults and children.
4. Rugs of oval and round shape visually enlarge the room, creating the effect of more space.

Every person needs his or her own personal space. So it is very important almost from birth to provide a child with a separate room and create a beautiful, functional and safe for health interior in accordance with his tastes. Your own children’s room contributes to the development of independence and neatness, makes you feel like a master, and fosters a sense of responsibility.  

But what if there are two children, and the size of the apartment does not allow each of them to have their own room? In fact, it’s all to the good: a shared nursery has many advantages, even if we are talking about mixed-gender and mixed-age children. A shared nursery for a boy and a girl allows for strong bonds and promotes the development of such useful communication skills as the ability to negotiate, share, find reasonable compromises, and listen to another opinion.

All this is possible under one condition – the space and design of the nursery should be carefully considered taking into account the temperament, personal needs, interests and other individual characteristics of children living together.

What to look for when creating a nursery interior for children of different sexes?  

When planning the nursery space for a boy and a girl, it is worth adhering to the following rules:

• Usually in a standard city apartment, the larger space in terms of area is intended for the living room. If necessary, in a nursery for two kids, the largest room is allocated under it. This will effectively zoned the room, providing the children with the necessary space.
• There should be plenty of light: If possible, choose a room whose windows face the sunny side: in the eastern or south-eastern direction. Also in a nursery for two children it is necessary to provide quality directional lighting of the working and play areas and soft night lighting – most kids do not like to sleep in the dark. The arrangement of additional spot lighting both on the ceiling and in the furniture will not be out of place. Several modes will allow you to adjust the brightness of lighting for different occasions – active games, doing homework and preparing for bedtime.
• In the design of the nursery for children of different sexes, pay great attention to the selection of color palettes and clearly think about the style concept of the interior, first consulting with the children.
• Do not forget about accessories and sports equipment. All kinds of lights and decorative elements in the style of your favorite fairy tales and cartoons will delight your kids day after day and make the interior of the nursery a special zest. In addition, objects of decoration may have quite an applied function – for example, with their help it is possible to effectively zone the space and put the right accents on the layout.
• Think in detail about the furnishings. Ideally, the furniture should be not only safe, functional and beautiful, but also a little “grown-up”. Today, many manufacturers offer “growing” tables, chairs and even beds, the size of which can be adjusted as needed.
• Fresh, clean and humidified air in the nursery is the key to good health and the best prevention during exacerbation of seasonal infections.

Below we will focus on each of these points in more detail.

Proper zoning of the joint nursery for two children: interesting ideas

To make brother and sister feel comfortable in the same room, the children’s room for a boy and a girl should be divided into functional zones, each of which will perform a specific task. It is mandatory to have the following zones:

• working,
• game,
• for sleep and rest.

Planning the interior of the nursery for a sister and brother, it is necessary to think through exactly how the delimitation of the territory will be implemented and whether there will be a common area.

Below we give a number of examples of how you can originally and tastefully distinguish the individual zones:

• Painting the boy’s and girl’s halves of the room evenly in different colors/contrast spots on a neutral background;
• coloring toy storage boxes in different colors is an effective way to establish the distinction between “mine” and “yours” and to make the evening cleaning routine more fun;
• gluing two kinds of photo wallpaper in each kid’s favorite style;
• the use of decorative little things and individual interior items: – bed in the form of a car, a night light in the form of a funny minion – for a boy; a pink boudoir with a screen, a floral sconce, a porcelain interior doll – for a girl;
• partitions – a screen, cheerful curtains, custom-made shelving unit of original form, multilevel multifunctional podium, under which the sliding bed may be hidden.

It is worth allocating space in the immediate vicinity of the window for the work area. Bright sunshine is the best lighting option for doing homework. You can regulate the degree of light with the help of a rolling system and blinds.

Beds should be placed on the opposite side of the room. The beds can be personalized. Pick up sets of bed linen in boy and girl styles, put different bedside mats, make over the beds of volumetric inscriptions with the names of their owners, etc.

The rest of the room should be used depending on the individual characteristics of the children and how they interact with each other. The common area should leave enough space for large-scale entertainments: folding puzzles, collecting construction sets, playing railroad. If space allows, in this part of the room you can place a wall ladder, drawing board, horizontal bar, kitchenette, swings, a funny tepee or TV for watching cartoons together.

Remember that the arrangement of a common area is relevant for children of approximately the same age. If the difference is significant, the zone should be divided into two equal halves, equipping each of them in accordance with the interests and preferences of each child. In the process of play activity children will in any case touch each other, communicate, exchange toys, etc.

Why is thoughtful lighting so important?  

The best lighting is, of course, the sun. In addition, it is the sunlight that promotes the production of the necessary amount of vitamin D in the body, an important condition for the growth and development of every child.

However, most of the day we still use artificial light. In this case, it is worth to think it through as carefully as possible and at the stage when you just started repairing the children’s room.

When buying a chandelier and other lamps, be guided by the following simple rules:

• Products should be made exclusively of environmentally friendly materials, otherwise the lamps will emit toxins when heated;
• Do not use both fluorescent and incandescent light simultaneously, it is bad for your eyesight;
• The design should be durable, shockproof and easy to clean – textiles, thin porcelain, shaped crystal are unacceptable;
• The color scheme of the dome lights should be calm, but the design in general is limited only by your imagination – butterflies, kites, funny little animals, cartoon characters – all this will add color to the nursery and is guaranteed to bring your children to rapture.

When planning lighting for a nursery with two children, you should remember that the periods of activity of the kids may not coincide. Including for this reason, the working area and sleeping areas should be placed at a maximum distance from each other.

Local lighting, necessary for one, should not interfere with the other. This is especially important for children of different ages, when the youngest is getting ready for bed, and the older is busy with lessons or just wants to read, sitting at the table or lying in bed.

It is also relevant in the morning if the children get up at different times. A sconce with dim lighting or a night light with soft lighting will allow one to get up and get ready quietly and not wake the other.

Close attention should be paid to the choice of table lamp. High-quality even lighting of the working area is a guarantee that the child’s eyes will not get tired while preparing homework.

The role of color in a child’s life

The selection of a color palette should be approached responsibly. The palette of colors around has a great influence on the child’s psyche. With the right colors can gently perk up a little phlegmatic and calm temperamental hyperactive child. And especially careful and thoughtful development of color solutions requires children’s bedroom.

In the case of the nursery for children of different sexes, the best solution – a neutral background with bright strokes. In addition, white or muted pastel base visually expands the space and gives unlimited possibilities for design.

Ideal colors for the background: white, tea rose, beige, mint, caramel, coffee with milk, olive. Variety will bring bright furniture and decorative elements: all kinds of room textiles, lamps, pictures, posters, mats, soft toys, etc.

Brother and sister zones should be different from each other and have something in common. Different colors of walls and furniture in the children’s room can be balanced by the same print on the children’s bed sets, lamps with plafonds of the same color, etc.

Bright accents should be made on the walls, and the floor should be as neutral as possible – too variegated colors can cause discomfort.

Horizontal designs on the walls will allow you to visually expand the space, and vertical designs will visually increase the height, which is especially important for children with bunk beds.

Designing a child’s room for a boy and a girl

The concept of a sibling’s nursery is recommended to think through taking into account the interior preferences of both sister and brother – you should not decorate a common room in the styles of romantic Provence or minimalism – some of the children will be uncomfortable.

The following styles are especially good for decorating rooms for children of different sexes:

• Juicy ethnics with the use of natural materials – natural wood, bamboo, linen, rattan, leafy potted plants – with bright green, yellow and terracotta inclusions. Decorate the walls with applications, drawings and other crafts of young naturalists, who will be happy to participate in the design of their own room.
• Tandem of modern and high-tech – laconicism and creativity, a combination of strict geometry of metal and warm soft lines, bright spots on a neutral background – the best option of stylistic design of the room for two opposite-sex teenagers.
• Scandi – with its light surfaces and soft geometry, which allow with the help of spectacular accents to assemble a really bright and original interior.
• Lego-style is a great option for two preschoolers who adore the constructor of the same name. Custom-made furniture in the form of lego fragments, lamps and decor elements in a similar style, a corresponding color scheme, bright monochrome room textiles will do.
• Cartoon style. Here the best advisers are children themselves. Ask them what cartoons they like most, and based on their responses collect a unique interior, all kinds of accessories and items in cartoon style – a dash of plenty.
• Thematic options in all their variety: pirate treasure, jungle, underwater kingdom, folk tales.

Returning to the question of how to divide the room for a boy and a girl, it is worth noting that the style acts also as an element of zoning. Girls’ and boys’ zones unite color scheme, and here the elements of the decor act as a kind of delimiters: for a girl – an elegant sconce in the form of a starfish, soft fishes and dolphins, the mermaid’s crown; for a boy – a real helm, captain’s cap at the head of the bed, a pirate saber, etc.

In this article, we have given the basic conditions for organizing a comfortable, functional and healthy space for a child’s room for different-sex children.

If everything is done correctly, the nursery will become that island of joy and tranquility, the happy memories of which will remain in the memory of your children for years to come.