Putting Dreams Into Your Kids Decor
By Lia Allayne
A creative kids room decor will not only give a lively look to your home but it will also help your child to enhance his/her creativity, and help your child make his/her room into a creative, energetic space he/she’ll love.
The first thing that comes to mind when decorating a room are the walls. Painting the walls in bright colors sets well with the mood of a kid’s room. A wall treatment with appeal for children is chalkboard paint, which comes in black and green. This paint is exactly what you might expect: a dense, opaque liquid that can be used as a chalkboard after it dries. Bear in mind that chalk makes dust, which is the enemy of dark carpets, not to mention the allergies it can cause.
An easier and perhaps less troublesome, alternative is a magnetic white board, which could be turned into a fun and constantly changing exhibition space. Galvanized metal can be bought at a home center and mounted onto a wall or closet door to create a super-sized magnet board. Because metal edges can be sharp, make sure the panel is set into the recesses of the door or has no edges exposed to little hands. You can use assorted fanciful, decorative magnets to attach artwork, photos and ephemera.
Another option is to affix a large sketch pad to a wall and keep assorted paints and colored pencils nearby for easy access. Kids love to hangs their stuff and want everything to be easily accessible.
A painted garden trellis is an imaginative way to store and organize a young girl’s handbag collection. Fancy drawer pulls can be used to decorate the wooden pegs of the trellis. Sand, prime and paint the trellis in the color (or colors) of your choice, then screw it to the wall at child’s height.
This article provided by Lia Alayne of PebbleArt Designs. Lia is an artist and design professional who is well known for her line of unique stone clocks
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What a great article. I especially like the idea of turning something as mundane as wall paint, into an interactive feature that will naturally encourage children’s creativity