7 Tips For Decorating Your Child's Room
If you're not sure where to start or how best to tackle updating your child's bedroom , you're not alone. In a lot of families , the baby nursery takes a lot of planning and decorating time but there's often less thought and energy put into decorating the same child's room as they grow older. It's common for baby toys and furniture like diaper disposals, rattles, pull toys and cribs to get removed, but other things often seem to stay around for quite a bit longer than the growing child might wish. For instance a wall paper border with prints more suitable for your baby or younger child's room , may not be as enjoyed by your now older child (or teen?!).
Here are a few tips to help you get started with decorating your child's room. The best part about this is that your child can help you do it this time around, unlike when they were yet to be born or an infant. So this can be a fun project you can do together!
1. Select a new colour to paint the walls, a colour that your child likes. If you have a strong objection to it, though, negotiate with perhaps a lighter version of that colour, or limiting their colour choice to only one wall. (Or, encourage them to put up some nice posters and wall hangings to lessen their colour's impact!).
2. Mood lighting! Kids of all ages enjoy mood lighting of one sort or another. Together, select either a night-light, a small novelty lamp with a low wattage bulb, or an interesting collared or black light bulb lamp. Other lighting effects kids enjoy include disco lights, statues or flowers with light effects, and glow in the dark items.
3. Bedspreads. Get rid of baby blankets and exchange for favourite cartoon throws or bed covers. When they're teenagers, they might enjoy more sports or frilly, or even more adult taste bed coverings.
4. Personalize something for their bureaus or their walls, with their names and/or photographs. Photos can be made into a collage. Engraved names in stones or personalized acrostic poem name prints are fun kid's room additions. Acrostic poem name prints make great keepsakes and can be updated every few years. They use the letters of your child's name to start off self-esteem enhancing phrases that tell about your child's unique traits, interests and characteristics at that stage of their life.
5. Create a comfort zone area in the room, for cuddling up cosy
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