Tips for Choosing Paint Colors For Children’s Rooms

The steps below follow the order of the work for this kids rooms project.

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Best Paint Colors for Children’s Rooms

Hi Bekob, it’s Cyndy from The Creativity Exchange, back with this month’s paint color palette.

If you happened to miss last month’s palette, I shared my little trick for how I always choose the well fitted shade of white here.

Traditional Kids by Detroit Media & Bloggers Just a Girl

Iced Green Benjamin Moore

For this month’s palette, I wanted to share a few tips for choosing paint colors for children’s spaces. Choosing paint colors that your child will love is not straightforward. Children are just as sensitive to color on the walls as we adults are and choosing just the right color is challenge. Today I wanted to share a couple little tricks that can help you can zone in on the well fitted color that both you and your child will love longterm.

Contemporary Kids by New York Furniture & Accessories Gloss NY

Including the child in the process and color selection decision is important because even the littlest of children respond to certain colors. The tricky part is children are drawn to more vibrant colors, so asking a child what color room they want will likely get you a jarring, bold color like the hottest of pinks or the brightest shade of neon green. While this is great information to help us get a general color option, extremely vibrant and bold colors on the wall are fun in but they are not necessarily practical.

Traditional Kids by Toronto Interior Designers & Decorators Jane Lockhart Interior Design

Beach Plum Benjamin Moore

Creating a calm and relaxing environment in a child’s bedroom is key because this is where they sleep, study and play. Just like the colors throughout our homes, the color on the walls sets the tone and makes the biggest impact on us. Vibrant and bold wall colors are happy and fun but these colors can be jarring and simply by diffusing the vibrancy of a color with 50% white, we are still giving a child the color that they love but we turn these colors into calmer wall colors. Those vibrant colors can still be used in bedding and accessories but the surrounding walls set the tone for a more relaxing environment:

Traditional Kids

Armour Pink Sherwin Williams

Transitional Kids by Cary Interior Designers & Decorators Design Works Studio

Sweet Bluette Benjamin Moore

Another trick is to use a vibrant/bold color only on an accent wall or ceiling. This is a great compromise in working in those colors without color overload:

Hale Navy Benjamin Moore

Traditional Kids by Los Angeles Interior Designers & Decorators Smith Firestone Associates

It really helps to show a child images of finished rooms from catalogs like Pottery Barn Kids, rather than asking them to choose a color from paint cards or a fan deck. This helps them get use to the option of a more diffused color and they can better tell you what they are drawn to and what they like.

Transitional Kids by Boston Interior Designers & Decorators Terrat Elms Interior Design Contemporary Nursery by Toronto Photographers Lisa Petrole Photography

Dior Gray Benjamin Moore

One last little trick is to consider painting a child’s room all white and saving the vibrant colors for bedding, art and accessories. As children grow older, their go-to colors change so much and this ensures that the wall color will work with everything long term. I recently painted my daughter’s room all white and we had fun with the vibrant colors with her bedding and all of the paint projects that we did:

Girl's bright and bold bedroom revamp. Several fun Handmade projects. The Creativity Exchange — via The Creativity Exchange

If you’re interested in seeing more of the Handmade projects that we did for my daughter’s room revamp, you can find that post here on my blog.

Here are some other examples of white kid bedrooms where those vibrant colors were worked into the accessories/bedding and art:

Transitional Kids Transitional Kids by Charlotte Interior Designers & Decorators Lucy and Company

It’s so fun to revamp a child’s bedroom and the temptation to create a vibrant and bold space is hard to resist. Hopefully I have shown you today that you can still have that fun and bright space with calmer/diffused wall colors. Choosing colors that your child will love for several years makes all of the difference in so many ways!

Thanks for stopping by today and if you’re looking for more color inspiration and palettes, you can find me over at The Creativity Exchange.
Cyndy

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Don’t forget to look at the other color palettes that Cyndy has put together for us:

Choosing the well fitted White Paint Color