Children's wallpaper in the interior: make a choice

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Striped wallpaper in the interior of the nursery

Wallpaper for a children's room in the interior is quite significant in the life of kids. They affect the general appearance of the room and the mood of the baby. The article will tell you what is the best wallpaper to stick with your own hands in the nursery.

What criteria determines the choice of wallpaper

For a comfortable, reliable and secure stay of the child in his room, choosing a wall covering, you need to pay attention to:

• Environmentally friendly materials. They should not be toxic, but absolutely safe for the health of the child.
• Wall and ceiling coverings should “breathe”. This corresponds to paper wallpapers that do not contain synthetic additives.
• The coloring is acquired in accordance with the age and hobbies of the child.
• The coating should be convenient and easy to care for.

Tip: For preschool children, do not purchase expensive coverage. This is due to the fact that children often creatively develop, apply drawings to the walls.

What color to choose for the children's room wallpaper

When arranging a nursery, the color of its decoration matters. For older children, you can find out their desire and choose such a color.

And for very young children or those who do not have any preferences, the color is selected according to one of three methods:

• By temperament.
• In color, which depends on the age of the child.
• By effects on the consciousness and psyche of children.

Tip: Color affects the psyche quite a lot, so when choosing it for wallpaper, upholstery, curtains, you should take into account the temperament of each child. The right choice of color will create a sense of harmony, and poorly selected colors cause irritability or discomfort.

In assessing psychological characteristics, four types of children's character and behavior are used.

They may be:

• Melancholy. Such children should be given preference to gray tones, brown and yellow shades when designing a bedroom. Melancholics are constantly worried about various events, quickly respond to any factors from the outside. To increase the activity of melancholic, it is better to use bright accents on a neutral background.

Melancholy room

• Phlegmatic. These are unhurried, unperturbed, with steady aspirations and psyche children, outwardly they are in no hurry to show emotions and feelings. For them, the preferred colors are orange and red in combination with soft tones of green. Orange is the color of joy, happiness and warmth.
• Sanguine. For the comfort of these children need soft purple tones. These are lively, hot and very agile babies who have a quick reaction to any events that occur around them, easily endure all their troubles and failures. But purple should be used in small quantities, otherwise it may tire the child. An approximate design of such a room is shown in the photo.

Sanguine room

• Choleric. In this case, the predominance of objects of green, blue and blue is optimal. Cholerics are fast, impetuous, but at the same time unbalanced, with a often changing mood, which is accompanied by emotional outbursts, they are quickly depleted. Calm such children are blue and green colors, which have a direct association with nature.

Tip: Choosing a color scheme for the nursery, you should combine colors, combine shades, apply different patterns, which will give the room comfort for any activity and relaxation.

What to choose wallpaper for the nursery

In addition to temperament, when choosing a wallpaper, the gender of the child is taken into account.

Gentle pastel colors are more suitable for girls:

• Peach.
• Green.
• Beige.
• Pale pink.

Room for the girl

Shades are most suitable for boys:

• Blue.
• Green.
• Yellow.
• Brown.

Room for a boy

In addition to the color of the wallpaper, the texture and coloring of them plays a role. Universal wallpapers are considered to be for a nursery with a pattern of floral and floral ornaments. In addition, children love images of animals or their favorite cartoon characters on the walls.

For boys, this is a wallpaper for a children's room with dinosaurs, or the design of the room in a marine style. Girls prefer gentle magical drawings that excite their imagination and they represent themselves as princesses in the palace. For the very young, you can use wallpaper for a children's room with butterflies.

What types of wallpaper can be present in a room for children

For a children's room, the most common types of wallpaper are:

• Paper, their price is the lowest, and in structure they are the safest materials for children.
• Liquid (seeFinishing with liquid wallpaper: choose and apply correctly) Such materials are similar to decorative plaster consisting of plant or mineral fibers.
• Glass or photo wallpaper. With their help, you can put any photo on the wall, including your own portrait.
• Washable.

Tip: It is strictly forbidden to use vinyl or non-woven wallpaper - they "do not breathe", reduce the amount of air in the room, creating a bad microclimate. Do not use velor wallpaper - they collect dust.

How to choose wallpapers for children of all ages

For babies of different ages, their own preferences in choosing wallpapers are also inherent. There is a kind of instruction for the design of such rooms.

For instance:

• For newborn babies whose age is from zero to two years old, whose main occupation is good sleep, the walls of delicate, soothing pastel shades that promote relaxation are the ideal solution.

Pastel colored wallpaper for kids

• In children, whose age is from two to five years, the range of interests expands. They are suitable for wallpaper of brighter colors. They can be photo wallpaper (seeHow to make your own photo wallpaper: consider in detail), which depicts cartoon characters for children with a calm character, and for active and moving ones, it is better to acquire calm shades.
• Children from three to eight years old often already have their own hobbies, someone likes to draw, someone prefers to sculpt from plasticine. Children of this group most of all love “educational” wallpapers depicting plants, animals or the alphabet.
• After eight years, the child has an opinion. With it, you can already choose wallpapers that suit his tastes.

How to use combo wallpapers

The most convenient and fairly simple ways to create a positive atmosphere in the children's room is wall decoration with combined wallpaper.

Tip: Bright or original combinations in the nursery should be used to divide the space, especially if the children have to share one room for two or more children. In such a simple way, you can separate the interiors for girls and boys, each providing a personal space.

More details about all options are shown in the video.

With the right combination of several types of material, on the surface you can get different effects:

• Visually change the shape and size of the room. To visualize the wall as far as possible, wallpapers are used that have a darker or very bright palette. The effect of increasing free space is created from wallpaper in light colors.
• The height of the ceilings and the width of the room can visually change the striped wallpaper:

1. ceilings vertical with a bright strip make ceilings higher;
2. horizontal increase the width of the room.

• When using wallpaper of two types, you can zone the nursery:

1. to separate into zones for rest, games, studies;
2. share a room for several children.

• When using different textures in the nursery, the lower part of the walls can be protected as much as possible with more durable and bright wallpapers.
• The device of bright inserts with pictures on various topics that adorn the wallpaper in neutral colors contributes to the creative, aesthetic and mental development of the child.

Zoning a child's room

Tip: When choosing shades, you need to focus on the purpose of the zones: in a place to sleep, you should use soft, soothing colors, in the area for outdoor activities, wallpapers are pasted with bolder pictures and shades.

When using combined wallpapers, smooth and proportional transitions should be provided, so that the interior looks like a single whole.

When decorating with a wallpaper a children's room, they can be combined in this way:

• Combine wallpaper made from various materials.
• Choose coatings with different patterns or colors.
• Decorate with wallpaper that has a different texture.

Tip: When choosing finishing materials for a children's room, it is not necessary to follow only one direction: here it is permissible to combine several options at once.

• To make wallpaper inserts from paintings, complementing the composition with frames or moldings.
• Stick patterned and bright wallpaper on only one wall, determining the emphasis on it.
• Extend thematic plots on the ceiling: combine marine-style wallpapers on the walls with wallpapers of a different kind, which will be responsible for the remaining functional areas.
• Use non-standard combination methods: perform separation by waves, beautiful zigzags, any arbitrary patterns.

Tip: When choosing a combination wallpaper designed for children, you need to consider: the older the child, the more critical the environment. In this case, the shades, patterns and methods of combination must be selected appropriate to the nature and preferences of the children.

Choosing a wallpaper for a child’s room, it is necessary to listen to the opinion of the child, to his preferences and interests.