We decorate the nursery with our own hands! How to choose a wallpaper, make a mobile for a crib for newborns, decorate a room for a young princess or a boy. How to arrange a room for a child? This question invariably arises from parents. The children's room must meet all safety requirements, be beautiful and comfortable. You can decorate the nursery with your own hands. After gluing plain wallpaper, apply drawings on them using the methods suggested below, or attach the letters of the baby's name to the colored walls, hang various accessories as well. You can sew curtains here with your own hands, a bedspread, bed linen and much more for a children's room for your beloved child.
What wallpaper to choose for a children's room?
In order not to get confused in their variety, see what the main types of wallpaper exist, these are:
- paper wallpaper;
- vinyl wallpapers;
- non-woven wallpaper;
- photowall-paper;
- glass wallpaper;
- cork wallpaper;
- the liquid wallpaper.
Let's consider each variety in more detail:
- Paper wallpapers are among the most inexpensive. Their positive qualities include the fact that they are made of natural material, "breathe". But if the child wants to show his creativity, paint them, such images will be almost impossible to remove. Usually, paper wallpaper cannot be washed, but there are some moisture resistant types. To choose just these, look at the markings on the packaging. This quality is shown by wavy lines, the more there are, the more resistant this wallpaper is to getting wet.
- Vinyl wallpaper consists of non-woven or paper, these materials are covered with vinyl on top. Such materials are able to hide the unevenness of the walls, are durable, resistant to light, they can be washed periodically.
- Rubber wallpapers transfer moisture even better, they are breathable and can be painted. If you want to update your kids room periodically, you can paint the wallpaper up to 10 times. Perhaps the only negative is the high price.
- Excellent qualities of cullet are fire safety, hypoallergenicity, non-toxicity. They are made from environmentally friendly materials: lime, sand, soda, dolomite.
- Wall murals can turn a child's room into a fairy-tale world, where on the walls there will be outlandish flowers, a colorful castle. If you wish, you can turn the children's room into a princess or prince's room. If you want to buy a bed in the shape of a ship, glue the wall mural on which the underwater world is drawn. Wall murals in the children's room will help to make their dreams and parents' dreams come true.
- Cork wallpapers are also natural, they contribute to good sound insulation, so noisy neighbors will not interfere with the child's sleep. The walls decorated in this way are warm, environmentally friendly, pleasant to the touch and very beautiful.
- Liquid wallpaper is considered one of the best for a nursery today. You can easily wash away children's art from their surface; you can repaint such walls in different colors many times. Only high cost can stop buyers.
As for the color of the wallpaper, an active child needs to choose cold tones in the room, and warm tones to a calm one.
- A child from 0 to 2 years old will suit colorful and bright wallpapers.
- For children from 2 to 4 years old, choose wallpaper where there are blue, yellow, green colors, that is, warm colors.
- It is better for a beloved child of 4-6 years of age to divide the children's room horizontally into two zones. The lower one will be designed for creativity (after all, kids of these years love to draw), so the coating should be such that it can be washed. The upper part of the room will be aesthetic; glue photo, paper or other wallpapers here.
- For children 6–8 years old, psychologists advise using wallpaper without pictures so that the child can concentrate, perceiving volumes of information. Striped walls are perfect.
- Girls 9-11 years old prefer the design of their premises in pink, and boys - in navy blue.
After you have managed to choose a wallpaper for a children's room for girls or for boys, see how you can decorate such a room.
How to decorate the walls in the nursery with your own hands
What items will decorate the room also depends on the age of the child. While he is still very small, these ideas will do.
Cut out the clouds from cardboard, glue them on the wall. To make the crescent moon and stars, you will need:
- thick cardboard;
- glue gun;
- braid;
- thin threads or fishing line;
- acrylic paint;
- scissors.
To make a month, you need to cut it out of cardboard. The second main piece will be round. We glue them together using strips of cardboard. Paint the resulting toy with white acrylic paint, draw an eye with eyelashes in black. Glue the tape here, hang the month on the wall.
If you want to attach stars to it, then cut them out of white cardboard. Pass a thin fishing line through a needle with a thick eye, pierce the top of the sprocket with a needle, fix the fishing line for a month.
If you want a month and soft fluffy clouds to float in the children's room under the ceiling, then take:
- light dense fabric;
- thin silk threads;
- scissors;
- synthetic winterizer;
- glass beads.
- For each item, you need to carve out 2 parts. Sweep all pairs directly on the face using an overlock. If you do not have one, then you can sew the blanks on your hands using an over-the-edge seam.
- First, leave small holes to fill the celestial bodies with fluffy padding polyester, then sew them up.
- Pass the thread through the needle, string the first bead here, fasten it to the thread, making a knot. Let this part hang, piercing the cloud with a needle, fix the thread here, then bring it up, connect it to the second cloud, decorating this gap with another glass bead. Thus, collect the entire volumetric picture for the child.
If you hang such a toy over a baby's bed, it will be called a mobile. It can be made from a variety of materials. Soft tissue was used for the data. To embody the next idea, you can also use felt or cotton canvas. Here's exactly what you need to do this:
- two bars;
- strong ropes;
- scissors;
- the cloth;
- filler.
Two bars need to be tied crosswise, firmly connecting these two parts in the center. It is necessary to suspend this structure with the help of ropes. To do this, tie them to all four ends of the cross, fasten on top. But this must be done at the end of the process, but for now, cut out wavy clouds, small circles from the fabric. 2 elements for each part must be sewn in pairs, filled with padding polyester, sewn to each rope. Tie these threads to the crosspiece too, now you can hang it on a hook firmly fixed to the ceiling.
A mobile for a crib for newborns can be made using the images of various animals. Also sew them from felt or other soft fabric, attach them to the cross using strings.
If mom or grandmother knows how to crochet, let them create fluffy lambs, stars using this technique, make such a children's carousel.
The wall for a newborn's room can be decorated with clouds, a moon, stars. To do this, use a stencil. You will apply it to plain wallpaper for the children's room, paint over it.
To paint on wallpaper in a nursery, choose water-based paints that do not contain any additives that are harmful to the child's health.
We decorate the nursery with such wallpaper using the following materials:
- stencil;
- white water-based paint;
- roller.
If you want to decorate the wallpaper in the children's room for girls with red circles, then take:
- round foam sponge;
- paint of the appropriate color;
- tray.
Pour paint into the tray. Lowering the lower part of the sponge here, moisten it in this solution, print the circles on the wall. If you don't have a round sponge, cut a round one from regular rectangular or thick foam.
You can sew the pillows in the shape of a cloud, put them in the crib. Color the stools, door with animal figurines or funny sleep-inducing faces.
How to arrange a nursery for a girl?
In such a room, coloring and applications on the walls and doors will also be successful in every possible way, but appropriate for the age of the owner.
Rhinestones that you glue on the wall in the form of raindrops will be appropriate here, they can be cut from washable adhesive paper or lightweight fabric, such as taffeta.
The young lady herself will be happy to help you decorate her room, she will play with these drawn images.
The girl will be pleased to feel like a princess; for this, glue a fairy-tale castle or other decorative elements on this theme on the walls.
You can draw or make a canopy on the bed with your own hands.
To build one, you need:
- semicircular canopy holder;
- self-tapping screws;
- dowels;
- light curtains;
- openwork braid.
Sew openwork braid along the top of the curtains, immediately forming loops from it. You will put them on the semicircular canopy holder. Secure it with dowels and self-tapping screws. But first you need to ask the father of the family to make holes in the wall with a puncher or drill. If you do not have a ready-made canopy holder, also ask your husband to make one from a metal rod or dense, strong wire.
You can make a round canopy using an embroidery hoop or a hoop. Cut strips of taffeta, tie them all over the base, placing them tightly together.
If you have a detachable round design, then take the fabric, fold it on top, step back 7 cm from here, make a line along the edge. Retreat down another 2 cm, make a second line parallel to the first. You now have a drawstring where you will insert the detachable hoop. At the top of the canopy there will be a beautiful ruffle 7 cm high.
If you have a one-piece hoop, then sew a strip of fabric on the back of the fabric so that it is between the fabric and the fabric.
To make a beautiful design of a child's room for a girl, it is important to take into account all sorts of little things. If the room is pink, decorate the side of the bed with a cloth of the same color. To do this, you need taffeta and scissors. Cut strips of lightweight material, tie them to the crossbar of the bed, placing them closely to each other.
If the bed does not stand sideways to the wall, but the headboard, then decorate two more sides of it in the same way.
With the help of taffeta, an ordinary table will turn into an attribute of the little princess's furnishings, helping to transform even not new furniture for a child's room for a girl.
Hang stylish pictures on the wall with your daughter, to create which you will need:
- photo frames;
- pink and black paper;
- scissors;
- templates.
Using the selected templates, cut out princess figures from the girl's favorite cartoons. Glue the cardboard from the frame onto pink colored paper, and on top of it - figures of heroines made of black paper. Frame your work again. For your convenience, fairy princess templates are included.
The following works will also decorate the girl's room. You need to take:
- a sheet of cardboard;
- Styrofoam ceiling skirting boards;
- white paint;
- glue;
- princess pattern;
- black colored paper;
- buttons.
Paint the cardboard with white paint, wait for it to dry. Then glue a princess figurine in the center, and create her dress from buttons of a contrasting color. Frame the cardboard with a frame of foam skirting boards, gluing them, which also need to be pre-painted.
Such works develop imagination and will prompt a way out of the situation if you need to find out where to put the old buttons.
And for young children, you can create pictures from the same material on the relevant topic, it will be interesting to admire the animals, birds.
Curtains in the nursery for girls should also be in harmony with the furnishings. If the design of the bedroom is made in pink, then the curtains can be bright pink, about white tulle.
You can sew curtains with your own hands, fabric flowers will become their decoration. To do this, you will need:
- flower pattern;
- pink fabric;
- stapler.
It is better to take a canvas for flowers that will not wrinkle. If you take silk, then you will have to sweep the edges of each workpiece or process them over a burner flame.
If you took a dense fabric that will not crumble, then use the right flower template, the left one is suitable for the fabric that you will process with an overlock or over a burner flame.
Depending on the thickness of the fabric, cut 5-7 pieces for each flower. Finish the edges if necessary. Now stack the elements in a stack, glue each flower in the center. Now you can attach fabric flowers to the curtains with a stapler or sew them on.
Curtains in a nursery with lambrequins are also an excellent design option for a girl's room. You can create them yourself.
We decorate a nursery for a boy
As mentioned above, it is good if the room for a young gentleman is made in shades of blue or aquamarine. But this applies to young children, teenagers will be able to bring an adjustment to the decoration of their room.
If parents and child like orange color, you can buy wallpaper of this color or select one wall for this, tint it. This is where you will attach the letters of the child's name. If he is 4-11 years old, you can decorate them with pictures of Spider-Man, other favorite characters of the boy.
Take:
- cardboard;
- paints;
- pencil;
- brushes;
- a magazine with the image of the child's favorite heroes;
- double sided tape;
- glue;
- scissors.
Follow this plan:
- Draw the letters of the boy's name on the cardboard. If you want them to be voluminous, then for each you need to cut out 2 parts. You will connect both elements for the letter using a strip of cardboard. It needs to be painted.
- Attach the letter to the magazine sheet of the picture with the hero, circle, cut out, glue this picture on one side of the letter. Thus, arrange them all, after which you can attach to the wall using double-sided tape.
- If these are not fiberglass, not cork and not painted walls, then it is better to attach a thread to each letter, hang them using this simple device.
If the boy is older, then instead of letters, you can decorate the walls in his room by hanging symbols of car brands, animal figurines or something that he is interested in here.
To show that this is a boy's room, color the flower pots appropriately.
Dad can give the child the first skills in working with tools, along with him, decorate the wall in the room with inscriptions, letters or numbers made from screws.
Arrange with your son the figures of his favorite characters on the locker, which you have previously painted in an appropriate way.
There will also be the sign of Superhero, Superman, Spider-Man, Betman.
Even the shades of the chandelier can be painted in such a way that you can see how the interior of the children's room for the boy is decorated.
The child will be delighted if he begins to sleep on a typewriter bed, and his parents will decorate the chair, the walls, according to his taste.
If a child is interested in dinosaurs, is not afraid of these extinct animals, then use their images in the interior of the children's room.
If you want to create a mysterious mountainous landscape with your own hands on the wall, go for it. But first take:
- brushes;
- primer;
- white paint, beige, gray in several tones.
Prime the wall, cover it with white paint. Wait until dry. At the top of the wall, paint the mountains in an acute-angled and rounded shape using a light beige paint.
Next, there is a layer of beige, after which light gray paint appears on the decoration arena.
So, using more and more dark tones, gradually move from the top of the wall to the bottom. Thus, fill in all the given space.
You can decorate a wall, previously painted in a light tone, with colored tape or blue electrical tape.
Draw a design here first, then cover the lines using colored tape.
Of course, these are not all ideas regarding how a children's room for a boy and a girl should look like. For even more inspiration, watch the videos prepared just for you.
In the first, you will find many ideas for decorating a children's room for a girl.
The second will come in handy for the boy's parents, here are given many ideas of how a room should look for a young gentleman.
Watching the third plot will not take much of your time; from it you will learn about the situation in the newborn's room.
