NURSERY WALL DECOR
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If you have chosen a busy print for your window treatments, or your baby's crib bedding set it just won't work to paper the entire nursery wall with a bold pattern. No matter what color wheel you are operating or interior design artist you are listening to, sooner or later all that action on the nursery wall is going to get on your very last nerve.
I'm all for bold colors in the baby's nursery but it's possible to get into trouble when working with too many colors. Mixing patterns is a job best left to professional decorators with lots of experience. The best bet for the DIY decorator is to pull colors and inspiration from an accessory with the largest design and most colorful pattern and keep it simple.
If you have a monkey theme nursery, paint a jungle wall mural. Arrange a grouping of wild animals that would be found in a jungle in a strategic spot in the room.
For a cowboy nursery theme a simple cactus stamp would make a very cute western baby border. Whatever the case may be, let your main theme item dictate how you finish your nursery wall. Everyone seems to fret about whether or not wallpaper in in this season. If you find wallpaper that you love, hang it. Don't worry about what the designers and decorators are saying in decorating magazines. If you don't plan to put your house on the market, decorate to suit yourself!
Wallpaper, borders and stickies like everything else evolve constantly to fit the needs of the consumer and other popular accessories. Wallcoverings are avaiable in everything from faux moldings, lazer cuts and embossed metals. Be forewarned that even if you hang your own paper or hire it done, there is more cost and labor involved than with paint and various nursery painting techniques. Practice on some cheap scrap paper until you can be certain that you can apply it in a professional fashion so as not to be disappointed in the end results.
While I'm a huge fan of using the easy self-pasting wallpapers, never underestimate the appeal of a nursery wall covered in solid paint colors.
If it's a good nursery color and you have lots of nursery furnishings or wall hangings this technique may be your best choice. With a solid color wall, you can focus on your framed art, or use some personalized hanging wall letters, stencil the baby's name on the wall, or paint a quote from your favorite nursery rhyme over the baby's crib. Apply a mini mural to the wall using Wallies, wallpaper cut outs, stickers, stencils or decals! There's no need to cover the entire nursery wall with theme motifs, just create little areas of interest to keep things lively.
Cover your ceiling with a blue sky and fluffy white clouds using a faux technique.
Paint the top third of the nursery wall in one color and the bottom another. Cover the adjoining lines with a wallpaper border of your choice.
If no other nursery item is making a powerful statement, the sky is the limit! Mask off and paint stripes,paint a tree mural from a kit or trace your pattern with an overhead projector, stencil nursery theme motifs, random hearts or paint polka dots with our instructions!
Bold red and white stripes painted on the walls can be gorgeous in a Cat in the Hat baby nursery theme! Get a contrasting black lacquered baby crib and some of the Dr. Seuss baby bedding and you're in business!
Subdued pastels can be just as striking as bold primary colors but are just not as visually stimulating. They can be used in conjunction with some of your busier fabric patterns such as toiles and many other themed fabric designs
No matter if you've never painted. With overhead projection and instructions available to tell you how to paint everything from a mural to a plain white wall, you're good to go!
Let your artistic side go free and after the wall is painted, enjoy!
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