Choosing the Right Color Scheme For Your Nursery
If you are getting ready to decorate your baby’s nursery, let’s start thinking about the color scheme. Young kids love bright splashes of color, but walking into a room with huge patches of red, green and blue can be a little alarming. Why not keep the baby’s room a fairly calm place where both baby and Mom can rest and relax?
So long as you are paying attention to the details, you’ll find that practically any color scheme that you can imagine will work. Also keep in mind that your small child might be alarmed of things like certain colors, toys or people painted on the wall. You can get a safer, friendlier environment with lighter colors, which will also make it easier to change the dcor as your child grows older.
If the nursery is not as bright or as sunny as it could be, look for vibrant warm colors like cranberry, coral, ruby or even barn red to brighten it up. If these colors are a little strong for you, consider peach, primrose or desert pink to warm you up instead.
Always remember that your colors need to be balanced. Rich colors on the wall call for light floors, ceilings and furniture. When you want to cool down red walls, look into pale blues, greens or even creams. When you have a lighter shade on the wall, like peach, pink, melon or yellow, look for accessories like toys and furniture to accent it.
For a neutral boy/girl look, try a cheery indoor garden approach. Paint the ceiling a light sky blue and add some puffy white clouds, the walls a pale yellow, and the floor neutral – a natural wood tone or a taupe tile. A border paper of pink and white daisies, or pink, blue and white balloons, and a cotton throw rug that looks outdoorsy would be great. The furniture can be white, pale green, or a natural light wood.
If you have your heart set on a whimsical look, do everything permanent in a monochromatic color scheme. For example, you are doing a nursery for your baby girl in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Walls, floor, and ceiling would be lovely in mint green, using its different values by adding white or black to your mix. Then add your colors with bedding, borders, posters or pictures, rug, play table and chairs, etc.
With monochromatic rooms, you are going to have some distinct advantages. Rooms that are designed like this tend to look very large, especially if the ceiling and floor are painted the same color. With a high ceiling in a small room, paint the ceiling darker to give it some weight, and if you have a low ceiling that you’d like to raise, leave the ceiling white.
Remember that children will outgrow their nurseries very quickly, and if you design right, you are going to find that you can adjust the room to suit them. A simple color palette will let you keep on using the room as it is for years, and all you will need to do is switch the furniture around.
