Colourful ideas for a child's room

The imaginary fairy-tale world doesn't lie beyond seven mountains and seven valleys, but much closer, behind the door of the child's room. Do you know the key to decorating this room? It is...

... the right colour. At first glance it is nothing complicated. After all, the market offers an endless number of shades that let you combine colours as you please. From the point of view of colour psychology, however, painting a child's room is the greatest challenge of all the parts of a home. It is generally known that colours significantly shape our current mood, motivation and overall mental state, and our little ones, hungry for new stimuli, succumb to the influence of colour the fastest.

2 in 1

Before you start considering a specific colour or wallpaper pattern for the walls of a child's room, bear in mind that the finished result should meet two basic requirements - on the one hand, it should stimulate the child's creativity and desire to learn, and on the other hand, it should be calming enough to preserve the room's resting function. We should not forget that a child's room is a "study" and a bedroom in one. For this reason too, many interior decorators recommend separating the whole room spatially and visually so that these two functions don't "clash" and the harmony of each is preserved.

Walls where it all "comes alive"

A child's room practically begs for a cheerful painted motif. Not only each of the colours, but also the very shapes of the painted objects have their own unique energy, and when you surround a child with two-dimensional "toys" smiling from the wall, you naturally support their joy of discovery. Stencils for painting based on popular fairy tales are extremely popular among parents. If you want them to stimulate a child's imagination, however, try to avoid single-theme templates that are currently "in". Such trends will certainly fade faster than the paint lasts, not to mention how fickle children's taste is.

Creatively assembled collages will add an educational dimension and variety to the walls of a child's room, featuring fairy-tale characters, but also animals, everyday objects, numbers or letters... Their timelessness is a guarantee that they won't age faster than a curious nursery-school child becomes a thoughtful student. You can't go wrong by involving your smallest adviser in the work on the concept during renovations. What matters, after all, is that the child feels comfortable and at home in the space. Not that you force your vision on them.

Pastel rather than loud

Rich to loud colours, yes, but only on small areas, for example to colour in a painted motif. Over a whole surface they look more aggressive than energetic and needlessly increase restlessness in the little one. The safest choice is soft, airy pastels - not only for the endless number of variations, but above all for their relaxed aura and how well they combine with white. Conversely, avoid dark shades of blue, green, grey and black. In a child's room they come across as far too sterile and may even evoke feelings of dejection in sensitive individuals.

To make everything go smoothly

Be prepared that you will probably "change the clothes" of a child's room walls more often than those of the other rooms, for the already mentioned reason of the need for new stimuli, which children should constantly be surrounded by as they develop. Before you know it, cute little princesses will be replaced by posters of singers or abstract bursts of colour. One change after another! So that your walls can handle every refresh of the surface without harm to their aesthetic and health aspects, make sure they have a quality base, ideally made of a natural material such as gypsum. Thanks to their favourable pH, Rimano gypsum fillers and plasters from Rigips are also suitable for allergy sufferers, act as a natural humidity regulator in the interior, have excellent acoustic and fire-resistant properties, and effortlessly help achieve perfectly smooth walls.