Kids’ Room Design & Decorating
Filed Under Children's Room, Children's Room Pictures, Home Decoration Pictures, Decoration Design | Posted on October 17, 2007
Decorate children’s rooms with pops of color, all without painting the walls
By Alyson McNutt English
Bed Overhead
When your daughter is begging for girly colors in her room, try a canopy in a translucent fabric that drapes dramatically over the bed. “One way you can really add a huge punch of color is by adding a canopy,” says designer Jennifer Delonge. Sheer colors can filter colorful light throughout the room, and fun designs, like this overhang from Hearthsong, can add fun and whimsy to the sophisticated canopy.
Pillow Fight
A simple and non-permanent way to add color to a kids’ room is with pillows. Choose fun and funky fabrics and designs that appeal to children. Marta Blair designed color-blasted pillows in animal shapes for The Koko Company by combining traditional embroidery skills from the Gujarat region in India with contemporary shapes and colors. “It’s a matter of exploring new tones and having fun mixing them up,” Blair says. Give your kid their color fix with these similarly vibrant pillows from Koko.
Get Tacky
Get color on the walls without paint with wall decals. Wall-Pops come in huge squares to add wallpaper-like color and patterns without sacrificing the wall’s finish. For younger children, check out home improvement stores for tacky-backed but finish-friendly designs of favorite characters.
Sew Cool
Another option for adding splashes of color are fabric wall panels. Use them as a divider in large rooms, tack them to the wall as decoration, or go pro by buying canvases at an art store and using spray adhesive to attach colorful prints. “It’s almost like adding wallpaper you can just take down,” says designer Jennifer Delonge.
Cool Beans
Try adding a squishy blast of color by plopping colorful beanbags in the room. “Beanbags are a really fun way to add color,” designer Mary Wadsworth says. Kid-friendly seating choices can be fantastic for younger children, like this stuffed garden from HABA. For older kids who love to play video games, watch television or study in a comfy cove, Sumo Lounge bags spice up a room with bright colors and assorted sizes more pleasing to the teenage taste-meter.
A-Door-Able
Jazzing up a door can give an otherwise neutral room a pop of color. You can go boutique by purchasing a door ready-made for child-sized fun, such as this one from PoshTots, or you can let your child engage in some homemade door design with paint, stickers or permanent markers.
Bodacious Beds
Bedding is probably the single easiest way to jazz up a room without painting the walls. For crib-sleepers, choose bedding that manages to be cool and colorful without becoming glaring or garish, like the “Motif” line from DwellBaby. Designer Becky Najafi, of the De Atelier Design Group, says for older children, choosing a bedding set they won’t think is “babyish” in a year or two can be a challenge; bold colors and patterns will work as well for children moving into a twin bed, as well as teens heading to college. “When looking at a fabric, rather than keeping it completely age-appropriate, choose something your child can grow into,” she says.
Seeing the Light
You can light up your child’s life by thinking color when you flip that switch. For younger children, Ikea has fun and funky lighting designs that don’t just spread color by looking pretty, but can actually bathe a room in a saturated glow when they shine. For girls, the pink light that flows from the Mammut lamp will thrill, and boys will delight in the fiery orange of the Minnen Fackla, which even has a “flicker” function. For the more sophisticated lighting aficionado, the Geometrix lighting collection, available at Expo Design Centers, sports funky designs and Swarovski crystals in glittery glam colors.
Art Gallery
“One way that I love [to bring in color], which kids love too, is bringing in their own art,” designer Mary Wadsworth says. One way she likes to do this is find “fine art” frames at flea markets and garage sales and paint them in kid-pleasing colors. She then attaches corkboard to them so the children can change the art in and out of the “gallery” on their own. Another way to create a low-cost gallery: Wire hanging systems (like this one from Pottery Barn Kids) are easy to install and use, and kids can be in charge of what’s on display.
Have a Seat
For families looking for chairs that appeal both to them and their toddlers, the selection can be sparse; kid-sized seating decked out in yellow spongy cartoon characters and spunky childhood explorers seems to dominate the market. But designer Jennifer Delonge says adding color through seating is a way to bring in a little spice with a lot of practicality, and for parents who want a solution with style, the Ava seating set by Delonge will be a perfect fit. Delonge says she created it to be quality furniture just like the rest of the family’s, but in the size and bright colors kids will enjoy. “Kids love it because it’s about their height, but for parents, it has good aesthetics,” Delonge says.
Fancy Furnishings
When the walls sport neutral colors, but the room begs for blasts of fun shades, transforming furnishings by painting or staining pieces can take a boring space and make it bright. Because the colors are more isolated, parents shouldn’t be afraid to make a bold statement. Designer Marta Blair says being brave with splashes of color is a smart design move. “It’s important to mix colors without being scared,” she says, noting that parents can look to art for colors they might not think would work but that can bring life to an otherwise drab area. “Tones that you never might imagine would work well together, like purple and brown, can look just great.”
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