Children's room painting: tips and tricks

Every parent dreams of his child growing up as a creative, comprehensively developed and interesting person. The foundation of these qualities should be laid from the first days of the baby's life, when he is already beginning to actively absorb all the surrounding information. In the first months, this occurs only at the visual, auditory and tactile levels. Color conditions are very important not only for babies, but for people of all ages. It has an enormous impact on the worldview and the psyche, and therefore the wall painting in the children's room should be done more than consciously. In this article we will tell you everything you need to know for the proper painting of the nursery.

How to transform the children's room

The modern market for finishing materials offers a huge selection of paints for the premises, however, not every paint is suitable for the artistic painting of the children's room. More on this, we'll stop just below, but for now, let's think about why children's painting is so popular?

First of all, this device gives an opportunity to dramatically transform the room and give it an individual style. In your will create any composition that corresponds to the age, gender and preferences of the child. If you choose the right paint, it will retain its original appearance for many years, so you can not remember the repairs until the child grows up.

Another advantage of painting walls over other ways of finishing is that you can create a comfortable space specifically for your child. Ready "template products" can not always catch and emphasize the features of the nature of the baby, the colors in this regard are much more convenient.

However, in addition to the classical wall murals, there are other ways to transform the children's room or use mixed versions:

1. Coloring wallpaper - wallpaper with applied image outlines. The child will be able to paint the room independently in his favorite colors. Such wallpapers appeared on the market relatively recently, but immediately gained popularity. And have already come up with wallpaper-coloring not only for children, but also for adults - with more complex and detailed images. But the main advantage of this design is not so much in originality as in utility for the child's development - working with coloring actively develops fine motor skills, attention, concentration, imagination, color perception.
   
2. Screen printing is a great option for those who do not have artistic abilities. Stencils can be downloaded from the Internet or manufactured independently from any image. Also stencils can be added to the existing painting "by hand"( stars, butterflies, flowers, birds, etc.).
   
3. Slate paint is an excellent invention, which was used in the interior quite recently. Cover one wall( or only the lower part of the wall) with such a paint, and the child will have his own wall, on which you can paint with chalks with impunity and endlessly.
   

Helpful Hint: If you are going to hire an artist to paint walls in a children's room, carefully read his portfolio and talk to the person in person. It is important that he not only knew how to draw well, but also understood the specifics of such work. It is important that a person is pleasant to you and your child, as painting the walls is quite a long occupation, and the artist will stay in your house for several hours a day. And one more thing - the master must truly love his work, because with the drawing he leaves a piece of his energy, his daily mood. Therefore, try to create the most comfortable and pleasant working conditions for him.

What to draw?

Choosing a composition for painting walls is necessary, based on the age, sex and nature of the child, completely forgetting about personal preferences. Even if you make out a room for an unborn baby or a baby, believing that such a baby is not yet able to choose adequately, you should not paint on the walls of Batman or unicorns, if you are delighted with them.

There are certain rules that should be taken into account when painting a children's room with their own hands:

1. For babies and children under 3 years of age, a fairly simple design of the room and the interior in general. Pastel shades of several shades for walls and furniture are preferred. To the interior did not turn out monotone and boring, you need to make a few bright spots, but do it better with toys - in which case they can always be excluded from the composition. As for the drawings on the walls, it is better to make them the simplest: large objects, trees, clouds, birds, animals. The child should easily recognize the depicted object, thereby learning and developing.
   
2. For children from 3 to 10 years in the design of the walls can already use more complex images, because during this period of life the child is actively developing and comprehending the world around him. Now you can safely draw on the walls of the heroes of your favorite cartoons, scenes from fairy tales, etc. It is during this period of life that color preferences begin to form in children, therefore, before buying paint, consult the future tenant of the apartments. But even if the kid points to bright and saturated shades, you should not fill the whole room with them - this will have a detrimental effect on the psyche. Use them neatly and only in the play area of ​​the room.
   
3. From 11 to 16 years is the most difficult phase, both for children and for parents. If you make out a room for a teenager, you need to make a lot of efforts and in no case forget about the desires of the child. Of course, you should not indulge all the whims, but do not be afraid to compromise, allowing the child to choose a color scheme, for example. Prepare to the fact that he may not want to see bright and saturated colors in the interior, which he liked so recently. On the contrary, a small customer can be delighted with dark or "screaming" monochrome colors. In this case, you can use various abstractions in the interior: strips, spirals, various geometric shapes, chaotically "scattered" on the walls, blots, etc. If the child has a craving for drawing, let him express himself, for example, by singling out one wall or by discussing and approving a sketch together.
   

The color scheme of the children's room

Most parents, while developing the future design of the interior of the children's room, make the same mistake - they try to turn it into the brightest and most colorful place in the whole world. The desire to please the baby with juicy nuances and to hear his gurgling laughter is understandable, but he is also a man, albeit very small. He, too, must sleep, focus, his eyes, which just started working and see still quite indistinctly, do not need an inarticulate kaleidoscope of colored spots that can only irritate. Entering colors and intensifying their intensity is necessary gradually and accurately.

The impact of color on the psyche was already known by an ancient scientist. This has long been a proven and undeniable fact, and the influence of color is the same, both for a baby and for an adult. The only difference is only how acutely the subject perceives it.

Important: Do not mix the symbolism of this or that color with the impact on the psyche. For example, in India, white color is associated with funerals and the transition to another world, while in most other countries of the world such events are "painted" in black.

It's always nice to look at light and white surfaces. White color helps a person relax, feel free and liberated. If the child is a closed, light interior will help him overcome stiffness. However, if the white is in excess, this will only exacerbate the situation and create a feeling of unnatural sterility. In such a room, a person simply can not relax.

Yellow color actively stimulates mental activity, promotes the development of intuition and helps to focus. It will look good in the interior of the room for a child from 7 to 16 years. But even it should be in moderation. The child should not only develop and learn, but also rest. Yellow can be a working area, and the rest zone can be painted in green, from which the eyes relax, and the mind calms down.

Do not get carried away with red and orange hues, as they "excite the blood" - contribute to the hyperactivity of children. In such a room the child will not be able to fully relax, will be capricious, pester parents, they also will not be able to rest, and as a result the whole family will suffer because of such a seemingly insignificant factor as the abundance of red in the interior of the nursery.

Blue is considered the color of creative and non-ordinary personalities, but if there are a lot of blue on the walls, this will entail not the opening of the creative potential, but the emerging depression. With violet shades also should be treated cautiously, as they depending on their saturation acquire the properties of either red or blue. In moderation, he is good at painting a children's room for a teenage girl.

Choosing a color scheme for a children's room, give preference to gentle pastel tones: blue, beige, cream, pink, yellow and green. It is best to choose warm shades, so that comfort and tranquility always reign in the room.

Ceiling in the children's room

Separately I would like to talk about the design of the ceiling in the children's room. Many do not take it into account, accentuating all the attention on the walls, and as a result the interior turns out unfinished.

The most popular motif in the design of the ceiling is the image of the firmament. It can be a blue surface with light white clouds and birds flying in the sky, or a night sky with stars and galaxies. If a child likes space, and he wants to see the night sky on the ceiling, be careful - the dark ceiling will "crush".For a room with a modest quadrature, this is the death sentence, since it will seem quite tiny.

Helpful advice: Draw a neutral bright sky with clouds, so that the ceiling visually enlarges the space during the day, but when painting, use the light-accumulating paint. Draw star-points, star clusters, galaxies and satellites. In the daytime this paint will not be visible, and at night the ceiling will transform into a fantastic picture.

Do not forget that the design of the ceiling should echo the design of the walls and the interior of the room as a whole. If you paint walls in a room for boys, you can attach 3D figures and even toys to the ceiling - they will attract the attention of children, and they will quickly go to sleep. However, such details must be periodically changed so that the children's interest does not weaken. If the ceiling shows a starry sky, then you can hang an airplane, satellite or rocket there. In the girls' room, you can also use this technique, but instead of hanging birds, angels, fairies or flower buds.

Choosing a paint for the children's room

So, if you have already decided how the child's room will be made, you can go to the store for paint. However, there are so many different compositions on the shelves, and it's very difficult to choose one thing. Here you will also be helped by the realization that you are looking for paints for painting walls in a nursery, so they should be absolutely safe for health. It is also nice that the painted surface can be washed, and it retained its original appearance for many years.

Painting for children should be carried out with safe paints, which include water-soluble acrylic and latex compounds. When buying, make sure that you have a certificate of compliance with environmental standards. Usually, these data are indicated on the label( hypoallergenic, suitability for use in nursery, environmentally friendly composition).

Important: Do not paint with alkyd based paints, as they release toxic substances both during painting and after drying, and can provoke allergic reactions.

Safety of coloring materials is important at all stages, including the application period and after drying. Latex paints are more expensive than acrylic water-dispersive paints, but they are more resistant to wet cleaning, ultraviolet light, and minor mechanical damage. Moreover, latex composition will help to hide small wall defects( cracks, chips, scratches), but if you want to achieve this, you should choose matte paint, and not glossy( see the corresponding label on the package).

Painting of children's rooms: photo