Wallpaper in a children's room for a boy

When decorating any room in a modern home, it is necessary to take into account a lot of important points, often contradicting each other. When planning repairs in a children's room, even more difficult dilemmas arise. In addition to the fact that it is necessary to choose an environmentally friendly and practical material, to decide on a color palette that parents and a child will not get tired of for several years, the family budget must be maintained. The difficult question of choosing wallpaper for decorating the walls of a nursery worries every parent who wants to create the most comfortable, pleasant, not annoying, but at the same time boring atmosphere for the small world of his child. In this publication, we will analyze the methods of decorating the walls of a room for a boy using modern types of wallpaper.

Properly selected wallpaper in the nursery will be not only reliable protection for the walls of the room, but also the ability to create a certain atmosphere, the nature of the room. Indeed, for a small owner of a room, this is not an easy place where he spends most of his time, but the whole world in which he develops, grows, acquires skills and character traits.

Criteria for choosing wallpaper for decorating a children's room

Many have to involve designers in the design of the children's room because of the very important requirements for the choice of finishing materials:

Environmental friendliness is one of the most important criteria for choosing a wallpaper. They should not contain in the composition of chemical compounds that can harm the health of the child. In the modern market of finishing materials, there are enough options for hypoallergenic products made exclusively from certified, which means components that are safe for humans and the environment.

Resistance to various types of impacts, wear resistance. No parent is willing to make repairs in the children's room every 2-3 years. But the design of the walls in this specific room has to pass the test of many variations of the impact - from banal patterns to hit the ball and other sports equipment.

An important factor in choosing wallpaper for the room in which the boy will live and grow is hygiene - the ability to maintain a pristine clean appearance, to prevent the spread of bacteria. Not every coating can withstand periodic cleaning and even washing.

Correspondence of design and color palette of decoration to the entire interior of the room. It all depends on your chosen (most often together with the child) motives for space design, taking into account the size of the room, its location in the building relative to the cardinal points and in the home in relation to other rooms.

Types of wallpaper for wall decoration in a modern nursery

Whatever type of wallpaper you choose for decoration in the child’s room, you must make sure that the seller has a safety certificate before buying. So, what options does the modern parent have?

Paper wallpaper - an absolutely safe option from the point of view of environmental friendliness, one of the cheapest and at the same time outwardly quite attractive. Such wallpapers can be used to decorate a room for a newborn, but it is important to understand that as soon as your baby begins to walk and leave traces of his creativity on the walls, the decoration will have to be changed. Paper wallpapers are absolutely not resistant to moisture. To clear the walls of drawings, the use of plasticine and other materials for creativity will also fail. This finish is unstable to mechanical stress. Wallpaper made of paper is short-lived.

Vinyl wallpapers - are used often enough to decorate the rooms of teenage children. They reliably hide small surface imperfections, are resistant to various types of impact and are in the middle price category of finishing materials. Such a finish can last several years without losing its initial appearance.

Non-woven wallpaper - A durable, flexible and safe finishing material, which is often used to decorate various rooms of the home and the nursery was no exception. Such wallpapers can be repainted up to 10 times for the entire period of operation. Of the shortcomings can be identified only a fairly high cost.

Cork Wallpaper - absolutely environmentally friendly, pleasant to the touch and serve as excellent soundproofing material (which is important for many apartments in panel houses). Among the shortcomings, a small assortment of color solutions can be distinguished.

The liquid wallpaper - A fairly popular option for designing modern rooms. They are practical and safe, easy to apply, and can be repainted many times. But a fairly high cost stops many of our compatriots when choosing finishing materials specifically for children, where repairs have to be done more often than in other rooms (because the room and the environment in it should "grow" with the child).

Photowall-paper or photo printing material. This is a great opportunity to use the finish for zoning the room, creating an accent. Also, with the help of photo printing it is easiest to recreate the theme of the interior - a certain style or using the child’s favorite characters to create a special, fairy-tale world.

Examples of room design for boys of different ages

Obviously, the design of the room directly depends on the age, interests and temperament of the baby. Only parents know how active their child is, whether they can get excited from bright colors and colorful drawings, or maybe the child needs colorful accents to get cheerful in the morning. With age, the interests of the baby, his preferences, hobbies and types of occupations change, respectively, the situation around him should be transformed. No one will argue that the interests of the baby and the student are different, but the onset of the adolescent period does lead to global changes in the worldview of the child.

Of course, no parent will agree with the prospect of repairing every 2-3 years in the child’s room, taking into account his changed preferences or occupation. Moms and dads would like to keep the design of the room for the boy at least for 4-5 years. We offer the following classification of design options for children's rooms depending on the age of the child. This approach will allow not to make repairs in the room for several years.

Room for the newborn

If you have the opportunity to allocate a separate room for the newborn, then you need to approach its design with special care. If everything is approximately clear with questions of environmental friendliness and safety, then the choice of a color palette for any parent is very acute. Plain wallpaper or patterned? Bright or in pastel colors? Do I need to use the accent wall organization technique or combine decoration materials?

To decorate the walls in the room for the newborn, experts recommend using light, pastel colors. Recently born baby is more oriented to the mood of parents, rather than the situation around. Until a certain moment, the objects surrounding the child, colors and their combinations will be completely inaccessible to the baby. Therefore, parents are advised to choose a palette in which they themselves will be easy and calm, peaceful and harmonious. It is this mood that will be transmitted to the child.

Neutral wall decoration in a room for a newborn can be an excellent base for shaping the interior of a growing baby. You will not need to repaint the walls (if you used wallpaper for painting), but just add bright accents - stickers, shelves, shelves or open shelves in a colorful color, photos in variegated frames.

Interior room for preschooler and elementary school student

An ideal room decoration for a little researcher is to paste wallpaper on the walls. Not only by the fact that you can choose the optimal shade of coloring, but also in the process of the appearance of indelible spots, patterns and other manifestations of the baby’s creativity, eliminate them with paint residues. If this type of decoration seems boring to you and the baby, then you can diversify the design of the walls with the help of art painting (the most expensive option), using stencils (the budget way) or stickers in the subjects you like for the child (the cheapest option).

If two boys of different ages live in the room, then both the decoration and the arrangement of the furniture with furniture can not do without zoning. Each child needs his own nook, even if it is only a small table and chair or a rack with toys and books. Highlighting an accent wall or using alternating colors (prints) in wall decoration within a single room is not only possible, but will also be useful when zoning a fairly spacious room.

The choice of a color palette for wall decoration largely depends not only on the size of the room, but also on its location relative to the cardinal points. For example, if a room faces the northern part of the building and there is clearly a lack of natural light in it, then you can slightly increase the overall degree of the interior by choosing a warm color scheme. Beige, yellowish and even orange (as an accent) tones will help to create a warm atmosphere even in a room with a lack of sunlight.

In the sale of modern stores of finishing materials, quite original versions of wallpaper that imitate a wooden surface, stone or brickwork are enough. They can be used as material for accent wall decoration. Experts in this case also recommend choosing a light palette that harmoniously combines with any color scheme for furnishing and finishing other surfaces.

Trim in a teenager's room

Making a teenage boy’s room a challenge for any parent. Disputes about the practicality of the material, the design's modernity and the cost of wallpaper certainly arise between the owner of the room and his parents. Let the teenager choose the concept of room decoration - a color palette, style, decoration (or lack thereof), furniture. Of course, the wishes of a growing man will be adjusted by parents based on common sense and the size of the family budget. You can always find a compromise solution, given that the modern market for finishing materials is incredibly wide.

If the teenager’s room is a fairly spacious and bright room with large windows, then the use of colorful prints will be justified. Neutral geometric pattern, abstraction - universal options for creating a finish that will be relevant for several years.

If the room in which the teenage boy lives has a small area and a standard-sized window, then it is better to prefer a monophonic finish in neutral colors. It is necessary to take into account that in addition to a berth, a study and creative activity zone, it is necessary to place storage systems, and in some cases sports equipment. So that a small room does not look too colorful, for an abundance of furniture it is better to create a light, neutral background of the walls.

We combine wallpapers with other decoration materials and wall decor

The combination of wallpaper and other materials in the decoration of the children's room allows us to achieve originality and practicality in design. Firstly, you can combine wallpapering on walls with wall paneling. Often, with the help of practical and easy to clean panels, a so-called apron is created (around the entire perimeter of the room or locally, in the zone of greatest vulnerability from the point of view of pollution), and the upper part of the walls can be pasted over with expensive and beautiful wallpapers - they will not be threatened with any effects that can ruin surface.

Decorating the finished decoration with stickers with images of your favorite characters is the easiest and cheapest way to not only support the chosen interior theme, but also to please the child. Typically, sticker stickers can be applied to any surface (including rough). They have some resistance to moisture and can last for several years (until the design of the room bothers you and your child).

In the room, decorated in a classic style or neo-classic style, you can use moldings, cornices and skirting boards in addition to wallpapering the walls. It looks beautiful to combine combinations of similar color solutions for wallpaper options in zones outlined by moldings according to the type of large paintings and outside them. At the same time, the moldings themselves can be similar to the overall color finish or differ from it by a couple of tones, but not act as a bright contrast.

Drawings for drawing in the nursery are very popular. Such materials may be presented in various variations. One of the ways to create an original and reliable finish, the condition of which parents do not have to worry about, is coloring wallpapers. The surfaces with the printed pattern are ready for painting with markers, felt-tip pens or special pencils, sold complete with finishing material (it all depends on the composition of the paintings). Such wallpapers, as a rule, are used as decoration for one accent wall, which subsequently becomes a wall of creativity.

Coloring wallpapers can have already painted characters, which need to be painted or represent a surface with painted frames (paintings), in which a child can draw drawings, comics, abstractions that he invented. But this task is more likely for younger students. For kids, the use of black self-adhesive magnetic “boards” is recommended, on which you can draw with crayons and erase images with a wet sponge countless times. Such canvases are only called boards, but in fact they are a flexible, but durable material that can hide some imperfections of surfaces. Rarely, a whole wall is used for gluing with a black magnetic board, most often this dark finishing material is assigned a small area, which becomes the creative sector in the future.