Kids’ love bright colors in their rooms, but let’s face it……parents don’t. Seeing neon green, hot pink, and other in-your-face color each time you open the bedroom door can be hard to take. But they want it. So, just how do you use chroma and intensity in in kids’ room color schemes and make both [...]
Do your kids like to draw “art” on the wall? Some of mine did but not too often (thank goodness!) and it was mostly light, easy to clean stuff. When I found the photos in this post, it turned my thoughts to “what if drawing on the wall was really art instead of just scribbles?” [...]
Kids’ rooms are usually quite small, full of stuff, and often house more than one sibling. Need a bigger space but no room to expand? When you can’t enlarge a room, there are several subtle but helpful design tricks to help you make small rooms feel big. Pattern and Texture Pattern can help visually alter [...]
Remember when you were a kid how some things were bigger-than-life? One of my boys missed playing on the “big hills” when we moved to a new city. During a visit a few years later, he asked where the big hills had gone. I laughed. We were standing next to them….he had just [...]
Navy is the darkest shade of blue and is popular in kids’ room color schemes, especially boys’ rooms. Do you know when navy blue was first used as a color name? 1840. It was first called “marine blue” (from naval officers’ uniform color), but later changed to navy blue. When combined with other colors, navy [...]
No headboard? No problem. When all you have is a mattress and frame, create your own artsy painted headboard…..on the wall like this giant poppy and blades of grass. Sure to give your kids something to stir their imaginations. Painting a headboard on the wall is a quick way to add a focal point or [...]
Boy….does this take me back! (The vintage paint-by-number used for the wall mural, not the baby nursery.) I remember painting a few of these kits trying to be an artist the easy way. Seeing the technique used larger than life on a wall is an awesome way to share nostalgia of the 1960’s. If you [...]
Want to add a touch of vintage to your kid’s room without surrounding them with old stuff? It’s really easy to add just a touch if you use vintage frames on kids’ room walls. Time worn accessories mix well with modern pieces and still achieve a warm, nostalgic feel so dig around in your parents’ [...]
The last few months, our Thursday: Design Basics covered ordinary wall covering materials and techniques. This last post? Let’s say markers, maps, and Legos don’t “stay between the lines” but do provide some unique kids’ room walls. via Aimee Weaver Sheet music, recipes, fiction, dictionaries, poetry just to name a few….and a great way to [...]
Face it. As hard as you try to keep it from happening, sooner or later, your kids will draw on the wall. (I well remember “Z’s” on every wall after a few re-run TV episodes of Zorro!) If you want help in controlling this inevitable impulse, pick a wall in the house and creatively [...]