When decorating a room for a baby, parents usually rely on their own taste, because for a child under 3 years old the most important thing is safety, and he is of little concern about color schemes and decor. Over time, the boy develops his own interests that have to be taken into account. When designing an interior, you have to look for compromises and come to agreements, keeping in mind that a child’s tastes change rapidly, but a well-thought-out basic interior is eternal.
To create a truly stylish and functional design for a children's room, you should rely on the following recommendations:
- Try white as the main trim color . It goes perfectly with everything and is unlikely to ever get boring, unlike, for example, blue wallpaper with airplanes. Don't worry, the room won't look dull and impersonal as you then add some colorful decor.
- It is better to choose a style that is easy to implement . Exotic design without the help of a professional designer will be difficult to bring to life without it looking cheap. In addition, the simpler the design, the easier it will withstand the inevitable chaos in a child’s room.
- The most important thing in a boy's room is functionality. He should have his own place to sleep, play, study and relax.
In this article you will examine in detail these and other nuances in the design of a children's bedroom.
The most successful styles for a boy's room
The style for a children's room should be easy to adjust as the boy grows up, be modern and harmonious.
Loft
Loft is a moderately brutal and daring style that is perfect for a teenager, but will also look good in a younger child’s room. It originated in New York, at a time when old factory and warehouse buildings were being converted into residential apartments. Therefore, its main features are as follows:
- Rough textures in decoration - brickwork or decorative plaster on at least one wall.
- Metal or wooden modular furniture.
- The presence of bright accents. The loft goes well with an abundance of posters, photo frames and other decorations, so the boy can choose any decor to suit his taste, and it will look appropriate.
This is what the loft style looks like in the photo:
Scandinavian
Scandinavian style is gaining more and more popularity. With its help, you can beautifully decorate a room with a minimum of effort and expense and easily transform it over time. Its characteristics:
- The main colors when decorating a room are white, gray, beige, and calm shades of brown.
- Scandinavian style tends towards minimalism. Furniture should be chosen as simple and functional as possible, and decorations should be kept to a minimum. As a rule, Scandinavian-style decor is characterized by simplicity and laconic details.
- An abundance of natural light, which, reflected from the white walls, visually enlarges the room.
- To prevent a Scandinavian-style room from looking too “cold,” it creates coziness with the help of knitted blankets, paintings with northern motifs, candlesticks and other decorative elements.
High tech
Pure high-tech style is difficult to embody in a children's room, but some of its elements can be brought into a loft or Scandinavian style to give them a futuristic touch:
- Cool colors in interior design.
- Materials: plastic, metal (especially chrome), glass.
- Use of unusual shapes and prefabricated structures. Open shelving, streamlined seating, adjustable tables, etc.
- In high-tech, built-in light sources and LED neon strips are welcome.
This design will especially appeal to young gamers.
Modern style
The main rule of modern style is the absence of any clear rules. It can combine elements of any other interiors to suit your taste. The main thing is to follow the general recommendations about light colors in the design of the room, comfortable furniture and division into functional zones. Otherwise, let the boy choose the decor for his room; after all, he is the one to live there.
Interior decoration
Decorating the interior of a children's room in white involves taking into account the age of the child.
For a newborn, the room should be made in light, gentle colors, where white plays the main role.
You can complement the interior with beige, soft blue or light gray. Such an interior is calming and peaceful. The air of a nursery in white tones seems transparent and crystalline.
Decorative elements may contain doll, children's or floral patterns.
Paintable white wallpaper is quite suitable for children's walls. In the future, you can change the interior by simply painting the walls a different color. The shade of white should be warm and not blinding.
White color is best used in combination with other colors as a background.
A room for children under 12 years old can be decorated more actively.
It is necessary to take into account the interests of the child - dolls and princesses, favorite cartoon characters, cars. Add bright accents, but do not overload the space.
Traditionally, a white ceiling can be made into a stretch ceiling, but use a matte rather than a glossy stretch ceiling fabric. This will add zest to the interior.
A teenager's room is a completely different space. This is already a room for an “adult” person, reflecting his tastes and preferences. You can use bright accents, which will still allow the child to add his own nuances.
The room should stimulate the child to be creative, give the child a free field for activity in interior design.
As a rule, teenagers make their own changes to the interior - posters of their idols, photos, posters and posters, and a lot of other items that are important to them. The interior should allow them to create their own space without cluttering it.
Therefore, neutral white walls are a good choice for a teenager's room. Or one wall may be white, which will become a testing ground for experiments.
White curtains will allow the interior to remain light and airy even with active accessories and rebellious posters.
Wall decoration
Decorating a children's room in white suggests that this color will dominate.
Choosing the right white color for the walls is the key to success.
For a sunny room, a cool shade of white would be appropriate - “snow” or “blue fog”. But still, this shade should not go too blue, so as not to make the room too cold.
It is better to paint a room facing north with white in warm shades or stick white wallpaper, but without gloss.
A shade of white “creamy” or “ivory” is suitable.
Selection of accessories and textiles
Since white plays the role of a background in a children's bedroom, the main emphasis in interior design is textiles and accessories.
If you have decided on the choice of the main accent color in a white children's bedroom, choose curtains, bed textiles, flooring or carpet in various shades of the chosen color.
One or two items in the decor can be in a rich tone, while the rest of the accessories can be several tones paler.
For example, a pair of bright decorative pillows and a bright bedside rug and calmer curtains and bedspreads.
Multi-colored toys will certainly add color to a child's interior. This way you can avoid annoying contrast.
A calm, harmonious space is the main goal of creating an interior for a child.
Functional areas and furniture
To decide how best to divide a room into zones, you need to take into account the boy's age, because the needs of a preschooler and a teenager are very different. The only constant area for any child is the sleeping area. It is worth choosing a comfortable, moderately spacious bed with an orthopedic mattress and good textiles; you should not skimp on the quality of your sleep. The rest of the furniture may vary.
Boy from 3 to 6 years old
Games still occupy a lot of a preschooler's time. Therefore, the main part of his room at this age is the play area. Place it close to the window so the boy can play in daylight.
Also, at this age, you can put a small table and chair in the room so that the child can draw or engage in other hobbies at them.
It is very important to teach your child order from childhood; this will help parents save a lot of nerves during adolescence. Organize a convenient storage system for toys and other things in the room so that the boy can independently maintain order.
Primary school student
Starting from the age of 6-7, dramatic changes occur in a boy’s life. Study is now a priority. A children's chair and table are replaced by a full-fledged workplace. Try to choose a spacious desk with plenty of drawers and a comfortable, adjustable chair. And don’t forget to make several sockets in this area - they will be useful for a computer and other equipment.
It's also worth considering adding a wardrobe to the room if you don't already have one. You may need to add additional shelving and bookshelves.
A very good idea for a student’s room would be to equip a small sports corner. The boy will definitely thank you later. A horizontal bar or a multifunctional wall bars will not take up much space; the first one can generally be placed in a doorway. But they will allow the child to keep himself in good physical shape and study in between lessons.
This is what the sports area looks like in the interior of the room:
Teenager
The following areas should be present in a teenager’s room:
- bed;
- area for storing clothes and belongings;
- workplace;
- sports section.
If the size of the room allows, then you can equip a lounge area in which the boy can relax on his own or spend time with friends. A small sofa or a pair of armchairs with a coffee table is enough for her.
How to decorate a child's room in different periods?
At different periods of a child’s life, colored elements can be different, carry different messages, and there can be different numbers of them.
The main thing is to focus on the age of the child
Baby's room
In the room of a baby who doesn’t even go to kindergarten yet, warm shades of white, diluted with pastel, soft colors, are appropriate. It can be:
- pink;
- peach;
- pale lilac;
- baby blue.
A children's room in white colors can be decorated with racks or shelves
They can color:
- patterns on the crib;
- a canopy over the crib, if there is one;
- a carpet on the floor, which you simply cannot do without, because the child needs somewhere to learn to crawl and then walk;
- patterns and pictures on the walls - parents should still like them, because the child is too small to express his opinion.
Not everyone prefers a canopy on their crib
Toys can act as bright spots. A cabinet with them can be highlighted and made an accent, or you can curtain it with a curtain of the same delicate color, which is chosen in addition to white.
Large bright accents will be inappropriate.
Color combinations
Pink and lilac are considered traditional girlish colors, so when decorating a boy’s room you should avoid them. Otherwise, there are no restrictions, but in order for the design to be harmonious, it will not be amiss to adhere to the general rules:
- White color is the basis of everything. A white ceiling, walls and furniture are the perfect canvas against which all other colors and decor will look great.
- As an additional color for white, you can choose light gray or black. But you shouldn’t overdo it with the latter, especially in a preschooler’s room.
- Avoid overly bright, loud colors such as red or orange. Their abundance in the interior excites the psyche, and can also get boring very quickly.
- Choose two, maximum three primary colors to decorate the room and try to select all the decoration and decor in this range.
- Pastel, slightly muted shades in the interior always look more advantageous and “expensive” than pure colors.
Examples of successful color combinations for a boy’s room:
- grey, pastel blue and blue;
- white, brown, lemon yellow;
- white, mustard, gray-green;
- white and turquoise;
- grey, olive and black.
Features of white color and choosing the appropriate shade
White color is the color of peace and tranquility for anxious children
White color has several characteristic features that distinguish it from other colors:
- Neutrality . It combines with all colors in general, and they also determine exactly how the interior will look. Mix it with pastel colors - peach, lemon, soft green - and get a calm, harmonious room that is conducive to relaxing. Add bright shades to it - red, orange, canary, rich blue - and get the impression of drive, beauty that awakens and puts you in a cheerful mood.
- Reflective properties . It reflects and refracts light so that the room seems brighter and larger. This is especially useful in small apartments, where only a small area could be allocated for a nursery.
- Lightness . It balances out other colors. When combined with it, even the most flashy or gloomy shades begin to look more peaceful. Its combination with black will give severity, not gloominess. Its combination with scarlet will give drive, not nervousness.
With this color the room seems larger and brighter
Overall this is a very nice color and easy to work with. The first step in this work is to choose a shade of white that suits a specific room:
- If there is little light in the room, its windows face north and there is almost no sun in it, the shade should be warm, otherwise it will seem cold and uncomfortable.
- If there is a lot of light in the room, its windows face south and there is a lot of sun in it, you can use cold shades, it will still not be cold.
Decorating a white children's room is not only easy, but also very interesting.
Warm shades always give a feeling of coziness. Cold ones are strict, and if you overdo it, you can get associations with an operating room or a hospital, which are completely inappropriate in a nursery.
Advice It is better to add cool colors to a cold shade of white, and vice versa.
Goes well with any color
To make sure that the shade is chosen correctly, you can paint a long strip of paper (for example, a piece of old unnecessary wallpaper) in it, hang it on the wall for the whole day and watch how the color changes depending on time. Then take a different shade and hang the ribbon painted in it the next day.
Usually such a visual demonstration really helps to decide.
Option for a boy in combination with blue color
Decor in a boy's room
The room of a boy up to about 10 years old can be decorated with the following decorative items:
- Paintings and posters . Choose modern, laconic designs that match the style of the room.
- Vinyl wall decals . This is the easiest way to update a room without any effort.
- Living plants. They fit perfectly into any design and improve the health of the space.
- Figurines . Here it is advisable to take into account the boy’s tastes, for example, purchase figurines with the characters of his favorite computer games, comics, etc.
- Original stylized watch.
The teenager will most likely decide for himself exactly how he wants to decorate his room. You shouldn’t interfere with this, you can only give him a couple of tips:
- Different posters of your favorite bands or movies will look better in the same frames.
- Think about how you can play up the boy’s hobbies by incorporating them into the interior design. For example, a guitar, skateboard or basketball hoop can become an interesting decorative element if you hang them on the wall.
- A garland of flags or a cork board with various notes and photographs will look good in any interior.
Unsuccessful topics
If you want to create a truly stylish interior that will not lose relevance until the child reaches adulthood, then you should refrain from being too cartoonish in the design of the room. For example, from the theme of toy cars or pirates. This style is, in principle, difficult to implement well; besides, the child will quickly outgrow it and will feel uncomfortable being in a child’s interior.
If you still want to create a fairytale environment for a little boy, then do it with the help of decor. You should not buy a bed in the shape of a car or cover the room with wallpaper with superheroes, since then you simply may not have the time or funds to repair and buy new furniture, but the decorations are always easy to change.
Furniture in white
Traditionally, furniture in a children's room for babies is chosen white. New life is associated with purity and light.
This is, of course, completely justified, as it makes the interior light and not overloaded.
White does not irritate the visual perception of a small child. In combination with light beige and pale blue, white is the key to success.
But even for older children, white furniture allows you to create win-win color combinations and does not overload the interior. And bright decorative items will create a comfortable space for the child.
The children's room needs functional furniture - a bed, a wardrobe or chest of drawers, a workspace with a table and shelving.
It is quite appropriate to create a cozy place to relax with white armchairs and a lamp where you can relax and read a book.
Such a cozy place is suitable for a girl’s room.
If the walls of the room are made in pastel colors or white, white furniture will not spoil the interior.
A white wardrobe for a nursery is a very good option if its surface is not glossy. Large glossy surfaces are too blinding to the eyes.
White shelving and a desk are suitable for organizing your workplace, and a white children's bed with drawers will allow you to harmoniously combine pieces of furniture into a single ensemble.
Such a bed will be very practical for a little person - you can store bed linen and toys in the drawers and thereby keep the room tidy.
Against the background of colored curtains and other colored interior details, lounge chairs will attract with their comfort. They will add sophistication and style to the interior.
For boys, there can be one lounge chair and its shape and color can be more brutal.
Good examples of themed decor
The following decor will look equally appropriate in the room of a 5- or 15-year-old boy, and will definitely not make a teenager blush.
- Technique. But not just banal posters with photographs, but drawings of airplanes, cars, tanks, etc. They look very stylish and contribute to the development of technical thinking.
- Countries of the world. Again, it is better to take not just photographs, but geographical maps as decoration. Not tacky multi-colored ones, but, for example, antique ones and consistent in the same color scheme.
- Space . An ideal topic that interests both children and older guys. In addition, it is played out in many films, video games and books in the science fiction genre, so it does not lose its relevance. This theme provides a huge scope for imagination. You can buy vinyl stickers with constellations or a star map, a lamp in the shape of planets, textiles with rockets and spaceships, a huge number of themed accessories, etc.
In the Lavender Decor online store you can find many accessories, home textiles and interior items that will fit perfectly into the design of a boy’s room. We send orders by mail throughout Russia, and in Moscow and some other large cities we deliver by courier.
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