Combining wallpaper in a nursery: how to do better

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Wallpaper color for kids room

Combined wallpaper for a nursery is a fairly common option for wall decoration. This is an original type of decor, which allows you to get an original, individual interior.

This is a common method for zoning a room, especially in a children's room. How to use a combination of wallpaper with your own hands in the nursery, the article will tell.

What are the main criteria when choosing wallpaper in a nursery

For children of different ages, a different design of the room is chosen, but there are general rules for choosing wallpapers for children.

These include:

• Health safety. It:

1. ecological cleanliness;
2. ability of the material to “breathe”;
3. lack of toxic emissions during operation.

• Easy care, hygiene.
• A wide selection of textures and colors, which allows you to choose a wallpaper according to the temperament and age of the child.
• The ability to quickly change the coating on the wallswhen growing up the baby.

Some types of wallpaper do not meet these requirements, so it is not advisable to use them in a nursery.

This wallpaper:

• Vinyl (see Vinyl wallpapers and silk screen printing: material features).
• Non-woven.
• Velor

These materials do not allow air to pass through well, collect a lot of dust, and their cleaning is difficult.

Affordable price, a diverse assortment of such wallpapers for children as:

• Paperlower cost.
• Washableaccording to hygiene requirements.
• Photowall-paper, according to the variety of plots and the possibility of a quick change.
• Liquid (see Finishing with liquid wallpaper: choose and apply correctly). They have a wealth of textures, it is possible to issue an independent design.

When using combined wallpapers, you can not follow the traditional approach to the color scheme, when pink or peach tones are acquired for girls and blue for boys.

Girls of school age will suit any warm shades, including terracotta, beige, any combination of green colors. For boys, blue, green, yellow colors are traditionally considered more suitable.

Tip: When choosing a color for a children's room, first of all, it is necessary to take into account the temperament of the child. You should not use depressive colors: very bright and too dark, as well as with abstract patterns of wallpaper: clear geometric shapes will quickly tire a child.

Features of combined wallpapers

When combined on adjacent walls or on one of several types of wallpaper, several effects can be obtained simultaneously:

• The correct combination of shades allows you to visually change the shape and size of the room. For example, to position the wall as far as possible, wallpapers of a brighter or darker palette are used. A combination of light colors helps create more free space.
• Striped wallpaper can change the height of the ceilings, and affect the perception of dimensions across the width of the room. For example, with bright vertical lines, light wallpaper ceilings make higher.
• Children's wallpapers of two kinds indoors are used for zoning. In this case, different textures or shades in the child’s bedroom divide it into zones for games, study, rest. The same combinations are used to accommodate several children, as in the photo.

Making a nursery for two children

• Quite rarely, wallpapers of different textures are used in a nursery, which is associated with safety requirements for health and practicality, but in this way you can make an original decorative addition to the interior. So, for example, with horizontal combination: at the bottom, bright wallpapers of greater strength are glued on the walls, which will provide them with maximum protection, prevent pollution and increase the color saturation of the room for children.
• For the mental, creative and aesthetic development of children, you can use bright inserts with drawings from different topics on the wallpaper for children's rooms.
• When implementing such ideas, it is necessary to pre-evaluate the size and illumination of the room, think about the colors that will be most favorable for the child. For example, bright shades of red and orange can cause a higher activity of children, and blue and green will help to form a calm character.

Tip: When choosing shades for a nursery, you should be guided by the purpose of the zones: in the sleep zone, wallpapers with soft and soothing colors are needed, while in the outdoor zone, wallpapers with more bold patterns and shades are glued.

Zoning a child's room

• When designing a children's room, it is necessary to ensure harmonious and smooth transitions so that the interior looks as a whole.
• Looks good wallpapers that are in harmony with each other, and go well with furniture, although there may be some inconsistencies for the children's room.
• When combining wallpaper in a room for a boy, cold and not too saturated shades are chosen, and for girls, wallpapers of pastel or bright colors are recommended.

How to choose a design for the nursery, built on the contrast

Design in contrast can be created by highlighting the accent wall.

For this:

• A wall free of furniture or an area where low furniture is installed is selected.
• Wallpaper with a pattern or pattern is pasted onto it.

Contrast pattern on the wall

Wherein:

• For young children it is better to use photo wallpapers with fairy tales, scenes from favorite cartoons, with children's drawings, which will surely bring kids joy. As children grow older, photo wallpaper can easily be changed.
• Elegant tricks will be required for teens. Their instinct of self-affirmation grows, so the color coloring is selected by the teenager’s favorite color, and the photo wallpaper (see Wall mural for teenage girl: how to choose the right one) he can choose himself in the same gamut.
• Photowall-paper is distinguished by a frame, moldings, they can occupy the entire wall, divide the nursery into different zones:

1. working;
2. for Sport;
3. for sleep;
4. divided into spheres according to the interests of two children.

Children's creativity and independent ideas in your bedroom

Tip: For children who have creative inclinations, one wall should be glued with monophonic cheap wallpaper, where they can apply their own drawings.

You can combine ornaments from scraps of different wallpapers in the children's room.

In this case:

• Insertions are made from wallpaper in the form of paintings.
• Flaps are randomly glued.

Tip: At the beginning of the work, simple stencils should be used, and through them, apply dark paint on plain wallpaper.

Children's creativity in his room

Most of all the possibilities for combining with other coatings or with each other are provided by liquid wallpaper. Instructions for applying them are quite simple. They can be covered in stages, allow stretch marks that are long in time. The material has an affordable cost; it is painted with acrylic paints in any colors.

At the same time, work must begin with a simple drawing, with a small amount of detail, using stencils. Joint development of sketches with children, discussion of the nuances of the image develops artistic inclinations, helps to bring the kids closer to their parents.How to combine in a children's wallpaper, all the details of the work will tell the video.

The combination of wallpaper is a real creative process that improves design, brings pleasure.