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?
Almost any color scheme can work if you pay attention to details. Keep in mind that babies, and indeed, young children can be spooked by certain colors, toys, and cartoon characters; not being able to completely differentiate between real and imaginary. Using a combination of clear, light colors will be safer, and make it easier for you to update your dcor as your child moves from infancy to toddling to adolescence.
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.
On the other hand, what if you are after something that is a little more fun? Why not put in a Snow White theme? Start by recreating the forest with mint green walls. You can get wonderful gradient effect by adding white or black to the mix and then add colors to the bedding, borders, pictures or posters to further reflect the woods. This is a lovely way to use monochromatic coloring.
Decorating in monochrome can give you plenty of advantages. Remember that a room in monochrome looks bigger; a room where the ceiling and floor are the color of the walls will look the largest. Consider how you can shorten a tall narrow room with a darker ceiling and how you can raise the ceiling with darker walls and white above.
Kids outgrow the rooms that you design for them so quickly, so take some time and really consider what you can do to make sure that the room is easy to upgrade. Consider a monochromatic color that will remain the same. After that, all you need to worry about is updating the furniture!
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About the Author: B. Fraley loves helping expectant mommies decorate their nursery and find a crib that is beautiful, comfortable and will last a long time. For quality products at the best price please visit her online stores for nursery decorationbaby furniture cribs
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