Tips to using wallpaper in a children's room
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Decorating a children's room is a wonderful opportunity to express your child's interests, styles and personality. Many people worry that their children will be onto the next favourite thing a week later, but there are some simple things you can do to help you choose the perfect wallpaper so that the novelty doesn’t fade.
Don’t overwhelm
Firstly, you don’t want to bombard the room with colour and patterns to the point that a child feels uncomfortable with sensory overload. The goal is to create an inviting, calming environment where children will be encouraged to rest, sleep and play without being overstimulated.
Luckily, most children's wallpapers avoid that by being thoughtfully designed to make the room more inviting and create spaces they will love.
Choosing an age appropriate design
Baby rooms are a little easier to design because you can choose your preferences and there won’t be anyone to tell you otherwise. In saying that, you will be spending the most amount of time in the room so you should enjoy the look and feel of any design you choose. Popular choices for nurseries are pastels and animal prints. There are many basic pastels and gentle warm colours to choose from, or newborn and baby specific prints like in our Borastapeter Newbie collection
Kindergarten to school age is a little trickier as their likes and dislikes change constantly. To avoid having to redesign a room, choose a feature wall that is more neutral and doesn’t feature their current favourite TV character. Pick from the calming colours, patterns or a wanderlust, woodland adventure, Alice in Wonderland, ocean theme or cartoon forest where they can hold their favourite toy up and get lost in the magical world on the wall.
Older school age kids will love things that are a little more out there! We recommend a feature wall with graffiti wallpaper, world maps, brick and wood, realistic foliage rain forests and giant floral murals. These types of feature walls are very popular amongst young teenagers as they create mini escapes within their own rooms.
Create a play space or separate worlds
If you want to use a very colourful and loud wallpaper, use it on a feature wall or create a corner by wallpapering two half walls that meet to create a play corner or special section of room. It will section off a room into play and rest areas and give you the freedom to use bolder patterns.
If your little ones share a room, you can choose their favourite design or themed wallpapers and let each child have one wall or corner that they can claim as theirs.
Look up
Now here’s something you may not have thought of! If you don’t have much space on walls with built-ins or furniture or if your little one just wants to stare up at a magical wonderland as they fall asleep, the ceiling is a very clever way to insert some colour or themes into a space.
Add a personal finishing touch
Include personal items after the walls are done. Frame a self drawn painting or two or a collection of sticks, leaves, rocks and fossils and your child will love their space even more.
Luckily, when you’re searching for wallpapers online, the preview pictures will usually show how that design will work in a space with furniture and you can order samples to see how they look and feel in person.
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This post is written by our guest contributor Emma from Lady Wallpaper